skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That assumes you even read the newspaper... when I was a kid, I had a paper route for a couple years. Only about 1/3 of houses got the paper, and not everyone even read it every day. Often only a couple cover articles, and maybe the 5pm or 10/11pm news. It was a relatively narrow window into only the most pressing issues of a given day.

Today, you look at twitter and see a massive range of news from populist minutia of what a celebrity said/wore, or every single military engagement in Ukraine. The gulf war in Iraq was probably the first 24/7 news cycle engagement in human history for any significant number of people.

I also agree on quality degradation. There is both more editorialization and lower quality writing all around. In addition to personal narratives all around.
Following this logic, would you say that the only way to guarantee same day delivery be to legalize slavery for Amazon delivery drivers?
Even ChatGPT 3.5 can answer correctly if you ask just "She died at 11 PM. Was she alive at noon?". My theory is that this is an adversarial example that adds irrelevant information (bpm, blood pressure, heart rate) that the model could have given more attention than the relevant part of the question.
Unfortunately, the data doesn't agree with you:

Social Security: 21%

Health: 14%

Medicare: 13%

Income Security: 13%

National Defense: 13%

Ref: https://fiscaldata.treasury.gov/americas-finance-guide/feder...
Strengthen the Security of Your Accounts with WebAuthn
It's not 15 years ago but I remember this[0] being shared on HN 5 years ago. I can't find them at the moment but I also do remember seeing whitepapers outlining the same techniques before that.

This one is interesting to me, now, considering who the author is.

[0] https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio
Fingerprinting is scarily accurate now, strangely. https://fingerprint.com/
I'm a recent convert as well. Thanks for the recommendation, I'll look them up.
Either way, the race to zero has been further accelerated.

Stability AI, Apple, Meta, etc are clearly at the finish line putting pressure on cloud only AI models and cannot raise prices or compete with free.
>So I'm not in a rush to rewrite anything written in Python just yet.

I think it's becoming clear that Python is to ML what JS is to the Web. We got stuck with it through a series of historical coincidences, and no one is super happy about it. But it mostly does the job and has evolved to fit the bill.

I'm not a huge fan but it's definitely here to stay. Hopefully Rust can take off but I don't see any other viable replacement.
As it mentions in the article, it allows people who have the wealth and love private jet travel enough to have the option to prioritize it and pay the extra taxes. The proposed tax is about a 9x jump. It's a lot but the excise tax on jet fuel isn't the only thing making private jet travel expensive. It'll still be well with in reach for many of the ultra rich.

It's a flashy title for clicks that doesn't well represent the contents. But I don't know if as many people would click "Why not raise taxes on private jet travel so its cost to flier better represents its cost to society as whole?"
It's not illegal to own a personal device, it's also not illegal to be friends with your coworkers if you trust them.

There is no "intent" here. What you are describing is an organized criminal conspiracy which is illegal no matter what device or system you're using. What I am talking about here is whether the employer should get to listen in to all your calls and read all your emails and text messages. Why do you think they like BYOD so much? Because they can get a window into your personal life, what apps you have installed, etc.
The preprint from earlier showing that LK99 is not superconductive and the 'half-levitating' samples have regions of soft-ferromagnetism and diamagnetism and shows a semiconductive temperature-resistance curve:

https://arxiv.org/abs/2308.03110

Discussion on the preprint from earlier:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37043447
What Russian or Chinese corporations supported the communist revolutions that arose in those companies? Modern Chinese SOEs do not count, they are a creature of Dengist reforms introduced decades after the initial revolutionary victories.
I still have no clue what a typical day using your app will look like. Yes, you are providing a "How it works" section but it still leaves me clueless about How it really works and no, i'm not gonna sign up to find it out.
> The Play integrity API is not part of AOSP. Remote attestation does restrict your device from doing anything.

It prevents you from using apps that require it.

> A new attestation API can be made if you want to offer remote attestation to apps.

In other words, you can't use the existing apps.

> Amazon successfully did it

The Amazon Fire phone was discontinued after only a year.

> It just means that it will take longer if a there is trouble in finding investors.

What investors? The purpose of Debian is not to make money, it's to make operating system.

And if "take longer" means after we're all dead, that's not sufficient.

> The standard 30% cut can be used to make it sustainable to support the operating system and fund getting apps into the store.

30% of nothing is nothing.

Moreover, the 30% is a monopoly rent -- they only get away with it because they're the only viable store for that platform. Who is going to pay 30% in a competitive market?

> It isn't great because it sets back the security of the industry back a couple years each time an exploit allowing this is found.

They find new ones every year. :)
Yeah, me neither. In my enterprise, we already had Teams in place (via o365). After Zoom's surge in popularity, we still have Teams in place, but now we're spending money on both Zoom and Teams. I doubt this is due to vendor redundancy because it would be the only enterprise service with this feature. I personally prefer Teams because I always have Teams open, it integrates better with Outlook and it's more or less included with o365. I guess it's a different story if you didn't already have a solution in place...

In my personal life, um... video chat with many people is not really a part of it. I just used Google Duo/Meet when needed.
ChimeraOS: Instantly turn any PC into a gaming console
Is Vercel officially backing Svelte now?
Up above we see "Then you start learning the Starbucks menu". Does that seem like an honest take here? Surely folks "dancing around the fundamental constraints of reality" aren't about to start whipping up frappuccinos because they failed to keep up with industry trends and plan ahead, right?
The opposition to these extra taxes runs surprisingly parallel to trickle-down economics.

If we pass these windfall taxes and then use that money to help individuals who are struggling, those individuals then benefit; however, if we let all that money to go to the millionaire/billionaire shareholders, then there's a chance that, instead of adding it to the excess wealth they're already hoarding, they might decide to spend it on business or projects that they could already have afforded but didn't. Those businesses or projects could then theoretically create work opportunities which would then employ some more people, and maybe some of those people would be the people who are struggling, and maybe the pay would be a bit better than the market rate they're already getting paid for their labor for some reason and so they'd get paid a bit more, and maybe that would help them to struggle less. Didn't you ever think of that?!
PyTorch's name is ugly and unpragmatic. Every method starts with “torch”
People often import Pytorch as "torch". Every function call then becomes "torch.<method_name>". I think this is anti-pattern. Compare that with Pandas and Numpy which get imported as double characters (pd and np, respectively).

Meta should change Pytorch's name to something that can be abbreviated like Pandas and Numpy.
As others have noted, from Cory Doctorow. But you're hearing it a lot recently because it's the mot du jour that people are lazily tossing around to mean "something that I don't like."
There’s a very large chasm between being successful, and having $10s of billions of dollars in net worth.

Do you really think someone worth $100m can’t live a life of absolute luxury and choose how and if they want to ever work a day in their life?
Have someone in Egypt look at our site. Its been blocked for about 3 months.

Apparently there is a pool of IP's that Cloudflare use for their CDN and some of them are blocked in Egypt. If you are unlucky enough to be one of the websites that is using that IP, it's blocked. Apparently they rotate them, but I haven't seen it yet, so chances are, when they do rotate them, more will be blocked.
I have used Mercurial at work for a few years about a decade ago after already knowing git basics (but only basics back then). It never felt "better" or "worse" to me, it was just a slightly different git. Its branch handling was a bit confusing compared to git's, but it was manageable.

One thing that perhaps let me understand git better later was how `hg pull` works actually like `git fetch` and makes more sense than `git pull`.

The team has eventually switched to git anyway.
I can access them all fine using Firefox on Android.
Feels like they're using climate change as an excuse to annoy rich people, who will not stop flying just because it costs $200 more. Why not spend your energy on something that would actually move the needle on climate change?
From FAQ:
[Q] How long have users been exposed to this vulnerability?
[A] At least nine years. The affected processors have been around since 2014.

Amazing how these vulnerabilities sit around unnoticed for years and then it takes two weeks for someone to code up an exploit.
Interesting choice to use 16s sequencing for analysis vs. shotgun metagenomics. I guess they were intentionally looking for bacteria but shotgun would give a more unbiased and comprehensive view of any microbial (or other) species present
This June, 2023 was not a government budget (that causes a shutdown), but a government debt limit to pay existing debts; of which, the comparisons are 2011... and when the US left the Silver standard.
Some banks are definitely behind on the curve, but notably I think that tends to be around customer-facing stuff. Given that whatever they use has to work for very elderly people as well young people, it surely makes it difficult to move/change things. WEI though is entirely on the backend though. It can be implemented as soon as the major OSes have it integrated, and it requires nothing from the user (besides installing their updates, which is mostly forced).
Social Security and medicare are self funded via payroll taxes and aren't part of the federal budget. So that's like saying your health insurance premiums and 401K contributions are part of the federal budget, which is obviously ridiculous.
Exactly. Whenever the name of some computing concept makes the end user into the adversary, we should de-propagandize that name. See also: Digital Rights Management (DRM). Whose "rights" are benefiting from it? Certainly not the users'. See also: Copy Protection. What is being protected? Not the user.
People die without air conditioning. Private jets are a frivolous luxury. No comparison
On the backend it's probably axum and tokio

https://github.com/tokio-rs/axum https://tokio.rs/tokio/tutorial
Web browsers should stick to web browsing and other tools should handle other protocols at this point in time.
> But you won't get people involved by not having any team meetings at all...

Having worked from home for decades now, back in my day the connectivity wasn't good enough for meetings. I never found it limiting in that way. In fact, it was easier to get involved as you had time to get involved, not wasting away in useless meetings.

In my experience, the main problem is that most people working remotely were thrown into it during the COVID age and never took time to develop remote working skills, leaving their office skills they had built up to lean on, with everyone hoping they would carry over. But it doesn't work like that. Being skilled in one thing does not mean you are skilled in all things.

Likewise, my career has been spent working from home. If you threw me into an office, where I have no experience, I'd equally be a fumbling around disaster. They are entirely different skillsets.
thats why i majored in biomed engineering but stopped short of going into medical school

a lot of the 'magic' around being human evaporates when you have to quantify the 'worth' of any particular organ

untangling this closed-source blob always reveals secrets: 2023 just had an update to anatomy! https://www.urmc.rochester.edu/news/story/newly-discovered-a...
Indeed, and this is why I'm very opposed to the WEI idea. It will make the web even smaller and less useful.

> Given that most people don't use ad blockers

In the US, 40% of people do use ad blockers. That's certainly not "most", but it is a large enough number to be significant.
ELI5 please?

After reading I can only summarize it as 'don't invest badly or unintelligently'
Web browsers aren't internet browsers and shouldn't be. There's way too many things on the internet for them to do a good job anyway.
by meditating a lot and staying away from blue light. Jk: you don't, if you're an owl (like me too), you're screwed.
On sound programming: playing a single note with SDL2
That site appears to be completely down, can't even find much of anything under archive.org.
Does Jitsi still have that problem with over a certain number of Firefox users making things lag or such?
This is actually fantastic. But I'm saying this not for the reasons you might expect.

As others have noted, lots of inaccurate information here. The AI has stuff that it is regurgitating that is totally out of date, or just plain wrong.

But, if you are concerned by that, then you don't know why travel sites exist. They exist to sell you something. All of these existing sites are lying, whether it is about the hotels or the amenities, or whatever. You are getting a manipulated filter at best, or just advertising at worst.

For this reason, this is, in my opinion, the best application of AI I've seen this year. It's an equivalent product in almost every way, but probably costs 1/100th the price to create for anyone without AI. The future of travel sites. The second order effects will be terrifying to behold.
Private jets are usually not owned by companies e.G. in the EU, but by a shell company in another jurisdiction. They are most often not owned (directly) by the people who use them, but by shell companies (for tax evasion reasons, e.G. VAT evasion) that those people control over a chain of ownerships.

Same for yachts, apartments in NYC or London etc. Rich people don't own stuff (directly).
This is entirely about Google trying to deal with ad click fraud. They desperately want a solution in the browser.

They will ship this, standard or not. But I don't see a reason for Apple to ship this in Safari, or Firefox neither. So I expect this will be a real test of Chrome's market power. Will any sites start blocking non-WEI browsers? Locking out iPhones seems insane. Or will we see differential ad rates for WEI environments?
Yes, Rich and I believe other Svelte core maintainers now work for Vercel. Rich I think has worked there for a number of years now.
The effectiveness of these systems in discovering a "new song" appears to be limited to those who match specific demographic patterns. Although I don't utilize Apple's system, I did experiment with Spotify's DJ functionality, which persistently suggested songs I had little interest in, even after numerous downvotes.

These recommendation systems seem to embrace the concept of introducing entirely new music genres to gauge their appeal, but they don't seem to place significant emphasis on user input. As a result, I eventually discontinued their use altogether.

I'm curious about how Apple's implementation differs in this aspect.
I thought Social Security being fully funded was an accounting fiction, and it is accruing meaningful liabilities for the general budget?
Wasn't there a whole DRAM price fixing cartel that blew up recently?
Plans like this are based on envy and not reality. Private jets contribute a minimal amount of carbon emissions. Yes they are outsized compared to the emissions per-passenger on a commercial jet. Yes the people who use them to fly to lunch should probably reflect on their choices. But they are not the low hanging fruit. Private jets also provide good jobs for pilots, mechanics, airport staff, as well as jobs for the people who build them, the people who build and program the avionics, the engines, etc.
Mostly I do it by getting the job done significantly faster. I help with our bidding and usually the off shore team bids want 3-4 times as many hours as I would take. I just had one project on my desk this week and they said it was going to take 4 months and I came back and said I could do it with 2 weeks of prep and two long weekends onsite.

My company is very much opposed to doing onsite work but it's often cheaper to send me onsite than it is for me to build and configure my equipment at my house and have it shipped so I have the benefit of "touch". It's a constant fight but I have 7 years left so I might make it across the finish line but I'd guess the odds are 50/50
Someone already submitted it: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37051423
I wish in 1973 the UN hasn't forbidden using "pt" and other arbitrary abbreviations, under the penalty of lifelong apple-pie-withdrawal :`(
Negative externalities such as climate impact are a cost that is not priced in. This results in higher production than is actually economically optimal.
> * Systems which handle other people's money must have continuous backups to write-once media and be able to 99% recover from a total loss of online data within 24 hours.

This is mostly in place, and has been for a while. Not so much “people’s” money, more for the banks money, which is where the systemic risk resides.
Maybe I misinterpret it, but the law says “[Germans] must present their identity card at the request of an authority entitled to check identification.” I guess they won’t mind if it’s at your home a casual drive away, but if you live in another city?
Airbus DragonFly
Step 1: put your content behind a paywall!!
Here is a crazy fact... Google Maps doesn't require Play Services to be installed. About once a week it will popup a message about no services installed, but it still functions (other than logging in).
> Social Security and medicare are self funded via payroll taxes and aren't part of the federal budget

They're absolutely part of the budget [1]. They're just not part of the discretionary budget. Defence is the largest discretionary line.

[1] https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2021/05/budget...
NightShift is different (but somewhat related) functionality: it adjusts the color profile to be warmer/reduce blue light. Both can be scheduled to correspond to time of day[light] however.
> if the JavaScript isn’t run [...] you’d like the diagram to still be visible in some form.

Yeah, that's one of the things that disappointed me about the linked page, I expected the diagrams to degrade gracefully into regular ASCII-art.

One of the ways I could imagine using this being useful is in markdown documents, following the principle that the source is good-enough to follow even if some additional processing could make it better.
i agree 100%, i feel like in the venn diagram of politics there is a lot of overlap but its just more fun/engaging/dopamine to focus on the outside crescents i guess... which serves the divide/conquer goals of the establishment.
I have a feeling the time spent searching for the vulnerability in the first place was more than 2 weeks though.
I've definitely seen this from time to time. I used to work for an ISP and we would occasionally, in the office, get "Your system is sending too many automated requests" from Google. Usually one of our customers had gone off the rails with some sort of amateur scraping, but this was always a pain to debug. I think we talked with Google's NOC and just had our rate limit increased or something like that.
GitStart only takes care of well scoped tickets in backlog and finishes them at the PR stage. There is so much more to do including:

technical architecture, API design, breaking down large projects, infrastructure and so on.

All of the above require senior in-house talent. So we want to become the best place for juniors to grow and enable them to join companies to lead the above initiatives.

I do not see a way where we will reduce the need for senior positions.
Using something like Edge (for work), Vivaldi or Brave would be better than Chrome and probably let you in instead of Chrome.
Then you should write to that website and explain why they're wrong. I bet treasury.gov would appreciate it.
I find it's more like that silly experiment where you have to make a sandwich exactly as a kid (or adult) writes the instructions. You _think_ you have a good set of instructions and then you get peanut butter on the outside. So, you revisit the instructions to be clearer about what you want done. That's how I see prompt engineering. In that case, you are simply learning how the model tends to follow instructions and crafting a prompt around that. Not so much random, more purposeful.
Can't you just

import pytorch as pt

?
So, part of an ongoing campaign to stamp out everything was good and different about the web?
For me, the best post-zoom thing is calls WITHOUT video. Video calling is extremely tiring. A couple of Zooms whacks me out for the rest of the day. Note that I am considered a “geriatric millenial” so your mileage may vary.
Playing the devil's advocate: Why shouldn't a server get to decide which clients it wants to talk to?
I would guess max_tokens refers to the number of generated tokens, not the size of the context window. That at least is the meaning of max_tokens in the ChatGPT API.

https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create#c...
That’s exactly what it is. An accounting fiction. Same thing with the supposed “Fed balance sheet.”
If someone says they're fine tuning a model (which is changing which layers are activated for a given input) it's generally well tolerated.

If someone says they're tuning a prompt (which is changing which layers are activated for a given input) it's met with extreme skepticism.

At the end of the day ML is probabilistic. You're always throwing random things at a black box and hoping for the best. There are strategies and patterns that work consistently enough (like ReACT) that they carry across many tasks, and there are some that you'll find for your specific task.

And just like any piece of software you define your scope well, test for things within that scope, and monitor for poor outputs.