skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> First off, I was super excited when I applied at SerpAPI. I really wanted to be part of what you are building. I worked for 10 hours non-stop on the challenge you set up, even with my brother visiting after not seeing him for 2 years. But my excitement turned into confusion when I got no response - not once, but twice.

Have you not received payment for the code challenge yet? Looking at our internal thread, we had issues with our bank with some tax information missing on your side (I know tax compliance is tricky), but I think it's fixed. Ping me if it's not the case. julien _at_ serpapi.com

> We are not just forms on your website

I am confused by that statement. There is no forms in our application, we only do emails. Can you point to what is the form you referring to? I dislike processes that require forms as well and we'll remove.
They are taxed, but losses are deductible. It's taxed basically the same as everything else. At the end of the year you tally your earnings and losses, subtract the losses from the earnings and pay taxes on that amount or $0, whichever is higher (i.e. you can't deduct more losses than you had in winnings).

I googled because I was curious and found an article about it [1]. It's similar to PayPal/Venmo/etc. Once your winnings meet certain criteria, the casino has to give you an IRS form (W-2G) and they presumably send another copy to the IRS.

The withholding part isn't super clear, but I guess under some circumstances they also withhold 24% of those winnings to pay federal taxes.

1: https://www.hrblock.com/tax-center/income/other-income/gambl...
From American point of view, surely.
Great. Although, I have to say, until the load side (the part connected to your house) is a bit more well supported this seems like it won't be used too much. The current F150L implementation is quite expensive, unfortunately.
How would a 'reasoning model' do anything but report a red sky? The color of the sky isn't something you reason, it's something you observe. Any creature capable of generalizing and reporting would likely tell you that the sky is typically red given that information
Supercharging LLMs with Search
Well, not so small unless you also exercise reasonable amount and have some muscles.
a VPN won't do anything to help you with instagram

the best of the best are 4G rotating proxies

the fingerprint needs to change also
Zoom works just fine in the browser.
Would be super interesting to see an arms race on this. 5000W bulb from the track vs. a concave mirror bouncing it back in such a way that it would mess with the drivers? Whom would then start wearing polarized glasses as they filtered the light?

Honestly, it is starting to sound like a missing chapter from the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.
this has been proposed, extended to the concept that every "particle" we observe is a manifestation of a higher dimensional field intersecting our familiar space-time field. its not taken seriously as it was thought experiment.
Very cool work!!
Apparently.

Nobody has to work in VFX. Somehow that point is not being understood. It's a choice.

So... choose not to work in VFX. It's pretty simple.
Similar mindset... also really intrigued with their developer tools as well. Workers, pages, D1, KV, etc. I was playing with a static site generator that deploys directly to a Cloudflare Pages setup, and it's lighning fast everywhere.
Tesla isn't engaging with the express lane barriers on I-5 in good faith.

This is a multi-year, life threatening issue that Tesla doesn't appear to care to resolve.
Ok, and? Of course it can't reason - it's a prediction model that's really, really good at its job (at least around 80% of the time). But it's still incredibly useful.
I thought it was once again an article on how to build NodeJS docker image... there are already thousands of them, BUT this one seems complete, great job! I'm always restarting from scratch because it's missing some tricks, some are too simple (HelloWorld kinda Dockerfile which is far from real world production) but your final image is neat. Maybe it's missing some example with ARG which is usually painful.

I'm curious though, why do you need to install `devDependencies` and other crap?
The laws of physics suggest an area about the size of Texas is all the bigger you can make a grid. AC is much better than DC for areas of that range, because you can adjust voltages with a cheap transforms. However if you get too large and feed the grid from multiple places, there gets to be a point in the middle where power from one end is driving the grid negative while the other is driving positive.

You can get around this with DC, and grids do interconnect with DC power, but that requires more expensive equipment.
Gemini felt to me like the web's quiet cabin on a lake. I'd view through a terminal emulator on a Mac Classic.

The lack of infinite content makes it peaceful and manageable. The lack of search (or maybe it exists and I just didn't care to find it) makes finding little haunts and communities more rewarding.

It's just some personal blogs about synthesizers or cereal recipes- but it's genuine and not people trying to build a brand. No one is trying to sell you anything. It's felt totally uncorrupted.
OpenAI launches webcrawler GPTBot, and instructions on how to block it
"Checking if the site connection is secure" what a blatant lie. If you can read this you already have a TLS connection.
Khronos is all about politics and design by committee APIs.
Yes that's my point. AMD has the hardware, but using that hardware with the existing DL ecosystem is much more painful and they haven't been able to bridge that gap.
https://archive.is/cMwrZ

The net imperative (1999)

*Within a few years, the Internet will turn business upside down. Be prepared—or die, says Matthew Symonds*
Unfortunately, the vast majority of investors are not willing to accept anything less than "the highest possible returns legally achievable". Therefore,, everything that can legally be thrown under the bus in exchange for profit eventually gets thrown under the bus. Including workers' pay and conditions, product quality, customer service, customer privacy and security, every manageable cost. The minute one company realizes they can cut some good thing to provide a higher return, all companies will (and eventually must, due to competition) cut that thing. It's an inevitable race to the bottom.
I think we have to see LLMs as their own weird thing, whose capabilities are only just being seen now.

For a lot of the time, ChatGPT does actually act like it can reason. Going through a bag of data and answering a question you hadn't heard before is reasoning. For instance right now, I've been asking it how to move a postgres database from one machine to another, and it gave a coherent answer that works.

Of course it's true that this information was on the internet in various forms already, but if you gave this task to a junior dev and asked him to figure it out, you wouldn't say the kid couldn't reason, would you? Even if it was slightly wrong, it wouldn't cross your mind that he hadn't substantially understood the task and made progress on it.

OTOH, there are cases when the LLM just doesn't get it. Most commonly with images, eg the famous hands problem. Somehow even after looking at countless images with hands in them and having access to countless anatomy books, it doesn't know what shape a hand can take and what shapes it can't take. It seems to not have a model of _why_ hands can be these different shapes but not those different shapes.

Perhaps this is do with LLMs being particularly good at text, I wouldn't know. It does seem to me like I've never seen it give a grammatically incorrect answer to anything, ever. Even when it answers something gibberish, it answers it in correct English.
Are you saying that GPT is not a stochastic parrot, or that GPT is not returning coherent reasoning?

Because if it's the latter, the evidence is rather against you. People seem to like to cherry-pick examples of where GPT gets reasoning wrong, but it's getting it right enough millions of times a day that people keep using it.

And it's not as if humans don't get reasoning wrong. In fact the humans who say GPT can't reason are demonstrating that.
I think one of the answer's is sadly just: Mercurial was written in Python.

Regardless of what the benchmarked real-world performance of Mercurial was or how well optimized it was, there is a class of developer that thinks all Python is slow and may never change their mind about it.

Python seemed a good decision: git had a two week headstart and Mercurial was faster to hit many usability milestones (and arguably git may never hit some of them, jk). Mercurial had good Windows support from early on (and doesn't need to ship like half of the GNU userland to do it).

I just don't think it should be surprising that some Linux kernel developers dismissed Mercurial off-hand just for being written in Python. I also don't think it is a coincidence that early GitHub ignored Mercurial just about as dismissively. (Ruby and Python aren't entirely "competitors" but there isn't always a lot of shared love between them.)
Good post, side remark our experience with kratos have been mixed while self hosting the solution. You can feel OSS is second class for them (lots of PR never getting merged, endless debates and little progress in code), it's OK its a business and they are not doing support contracts. Just know what you are getting into. Just my experience, might be different with other products.
> An attestation taken does not contain information about the device that can be used to identify since the data the site gets is low entropy.

Citation needed, how does WEI make it _impossible_ for attesters to return higher entropy information? Pinkie promises are insufficient.

> WEI doesn't stop you from changing your user agent

False, this is an explicit design goal: "Allow web servers to evaluate the authenticity of the device and honest representation of the software stack and the traffic from the device."

> nor does it prevent you from using your privacy web extentions

Not an explicit goal, but a very obvious next step with strong economic incentives.

> Physical handcuffs would be very intrusive, but that isn't what is happening here.

Seeing a message that says "Sorry, this website is only accessible by browsers that support WEI" is very intrusive.

> WEI doesn't prevent you from participating in the web or needing to meet someone else's specification. You can even make an attestation service for your own browser.

Categorically false, no website is going to trust your attestation service. This is equivalent to saying "Just create your own CA".

> I disagree that beivg a to lie about what your device is running in a building block of all civil rights because the physical analog, fraud, is illegal, and the world seems better without people commuting fraud to one another.

No, the physical analog is "lying", which isn't illegal in most situations, and required in some - such as when a stalker asks you where you live.
Something like:

- laborers presumably have social security numbers

- if a laborer is working in the premises of a company (and a van is definitely that) WITH THE MARKETING, then you have a direct line between the worker and the company using its labor.

- if a laborer is working on a company's premises, it must report that labor for the hours.

- if the total labor for a company exceeds a "full time" trigger, then it triggers all that employment law about "full time employees" or "part time employees".

- you can have a cutoff amount for lucrative consulting that this doesn't apply to. So if your bill rate is like 100+/hr, you can be exempt from the tracking.

Basically, companies are going to utilize corporate law, limited liability, shell company obfuscation, and supplier relationships to obfuscate full time vs part time vs employee vs "contractor". This isn't really that new. Use the social security number system to break through this. Of course it relies on reporting and compliance, but there's numerous examples of big bad hammers that can be employed, especially if it tracks back to a big bad company like Amazon.

But the real issue is that government oversight of corporations is basically nonexistent except where the regulatory capture is valuable. The SEC and FTC are total jokes, the mortgage crisis showed that in plain view. So even if I come up with some good tieback mechanism, it won't work.

... unless there is a consortium of companies that will push it against Amazon, which I'm surprised hasn't happened. Everyone seems to be competing with Amazon in the marketplace, which at this point they are now monopolized. Walmart / Bestbuy / Target don't seem to be fighting in government regulation yet which is what they need to do. Likewise Azure and GCP aren't fighting AWS in antitrust either.

But I think at some point it will happen.
Not everything has to be super easy-to-use.
This is their claim:

> "Meta's practices are clearly designed to discipline Canadian news companies, prevent them from participating in and accessing the advertising market, and significantly reduce their visibility to Canadians on social media channels," the CBC said in a joint statement with the Canadian Association of Broadcasters and News Media Canada, a trade organization that represents newspapers.

> "Meta's anticompetitive conduct, which has attracted the attention of regulators around the world, will strengthen its already dominant position in advertising and social media distribution and harm Canadian journalism," the statement read.

> "The applicants ask the Competition Bureau to use its investigative and prosecutorial tools to protect competition and prohibit Meta from continuing to block Canadians' access to news content."
Credit card balances above $1T for the first time
Headphones: How do they work with iOS (if you use that?).
I've used all kinds of headphones, on Android, PC and iOS
and I find the only one with some form of stable connection
are iOS ones with the H1 chip.

Bose QC45 + iPhone 12 Pro have been rock solid stable for me. Hundreds of hours.
Isn't it remarkable how healthy and wise our society was before 24-hour news. Nowadays we have newfangled problems like "populism", "anger", "Nazis" - say, where does that name even come from?
How long have you used Here WeGo? It used to be my primary maps application but a couple years back they updated it and broke everything (offline address search stopped working, no route choices anymore, I think they removed the TTS options which made the voice directions much harder to follow, etc).

The reviews for the app tanked after that disaster and practically all of them mentioned the update as the pain point, do you know if they ever recovered a semblance of what it used to be? Maybe I'll have to check it out again, I've been using Magic Earth ever since then and it's pretty solid but there are a few minor things I still miss.
Discord's video quality is laughable. May be it depends on where in the world you are using it but it has the worst video quality in my experience.
Yes, it is a very interesting aspect of these models that they have a “low self esteem” (of course, not in the literal human sense) in their own abilities until you give them a pep talk, “don’t worry LLM, you got this”
I do not see how that contradicts my overall point.
These are two entirely different situations.

With Stack Overflow, everybody contributed to their data set. This data set is centrally managed by Stack Overflow and access is whatever they choose to allow. When they block access to that data set, it effectively takes it away from the public.

With OpenAI, they aren’t locking anything away. They are analysing the data and adjusting the weights in their model. They haven’t stopped people from accessing the data they are training upon.

What Stack Overflow are doing is stopping the free flow of information. What OpenAI are doing is providing an additional channel for it to flow through.
AI regulation is taking shape, but startups are being left out
> I remember being a kid and having a blast on the 2000's internet, but it was really hard to bump into a really good site. Tbh most of them were kinda crappy.

> Like with past friends and past games: I missed the good times, but if I tried to recreate today the same things like I did in the past, I realized that everything changed: Some friends stayed friends, but some others simply didn't. And some interests didn't interest me anymore.

I think it runs both a bit deeper and broader than just "what I liked then, I don't like now".

In the 2000s and prior, the promise of everything involved seemed infinite. We looked at some small or bad website and saw the potential for it to become bigger and better. If it can do x, maybe it can do y, z, and more.

Today, we know what the full potential of a website is, and it's not nearly what we thought it was. So when we see a small or bad website now, we know that all it can do is maybe be a little better, but trying to improve it could just as likely make it unwieldy and worse.

In our disillusionment, we try to recapture that awe-inspiring feeling of infinite potential, but instead of making something new that's full of potential we only pantomime what we were doing 20-30 years ago, by forcing arbitrary virtual restraints on ourselves inspired by what were once the limits of our reality. Gemini, Hypercard, virtual game consoles, etc.

At best the result feels as artificial and empty as a more emotionally detached examination of the motivation might've suggested, and upon recognizing that we move on from it. At worst, we recognize how much of that potential wasn't ever realized — and the often arbitrary and cynical reasons why — and feel even sadder, because our memory of that infinite potential is tainted by the reality.

It's like the moonshots of the 60s and 70s leading to people thinking we'd be colonizing the solar system or breaking the speed of light by now.

Just like any limitation, all of these virtual-limitation experiments have some legitimate uses and can inspire creativity. But it's become clear that the people who dove into it for the doomed nostalgic hope of recapturing that feeling of potential have recognized that and moved on, either to newer pastures of actual limitation-breaking potential or other nostalgic boondoggles.
OpenAI Launches GPTBot with Details on How to Restrict Access
That makes perfect sense now. Each additional feature complicates the original design and adds to the complexity of the finished product. Each complication requires a level higher skill set for the maker. I had never dug into watch or clock making but I see how the term fits the situation for this app.
I don't do mobile apps.

What I'll do instead (and, honestly, this is what I already mostly do anyhow so it's not really a sacrifice) is physically go to the bank branch to conduct my business.
Even the best news has a profit-based incentive system. Headlines are almost always clickbait.

Even so, I read the Post, Atlantic, BBC, and Al Jazeera. Sometimes listen to NPR, but they seem to have been infiltrated by the Koch brothers schemes.

I also try to have deep discussions with a diverse, educated, well-traveled set of acquaintances.

All of this leads to, I hope, a well informed perspective.
Hi there, I'm the PM for Cloudflare's challenge platform. I'd love to look into what the cause of the problem is, so you don't see these difficulties.

> Cloudflare detected the high frequency of requests and denials (but not their faulty loop that caused this pattern of requests, of course), and tagged my browser as suspicious.

I can tell you at least that we don't penalize users for this looping behavior, so this wouldn't cause us to see your browser as suspicious. I hope we can dig into this more and uncover the cause of the problem.

Personally, I'm a big Firefox user, and this isn't behavior I see. If there were a widespread Firefox wide issue, automated alerts would trigger and we'd consider this a critical incident.

You can drop me an email at amartinetti at cloudflare if you're interested in troubleshooting.
They already have a light source[1] which they are collaborating with Imec to get ready for EUV, apparently within 2 years[2]. It will be interresting to see how far ASML will go to get around export restriction contracts, since there are billions to be made in chinese lithography. I didn’t know that the US had the capability the control who europeans companies choose to export their products to.

[1]: http://www.transientek.com/cpzx/jcxnmgtjgq/jzwckgy/35.html

[2]:https://thechinaproject.com/2023/08/03/beijing-pushes-china-...
Best I can see is that it helps incremental time that adds up over time

Like if your build server is backed up maybe the rust version of your language's compiler and interpreter will make your build server not be backed up because it does everything faster

But for everyone else its not that useful to be using the rust version of everything

Its just another one of those things where you see lucrative job offers requiring rust, so you make up reasons to have impactful-ish experiences in rust
Both, really. As technology has created new and broader reaching mediums, the people operating those mediums have changed their target audience to support their existence.
More like you to evaluate an AI's reasoning, you need to be good enough at reasoning yourself to ensure you're actually evaluating the AI you intended to evaluate.
In the video game Rust, you spawn with a Torch. They also just did a torch replacement in game. Maybe it's time for a break...
AI researchers claim 93% accuracy in detecting keystrokes over Zoom audio
If I had a time machine, I'd use it to identify who in my life gave me this same "advice" and gift them a copy of their obituary from the future.

For a commercial product, yours is honest feedback.

But this isn't that. You popped into a literal show-and-tell to heckle some kid proud of his macaroni art. You didn't even critique the product, just insulted its maker. What the hell is wrong with you to think this is appropriate, or even helpful?
This has several thematic connections with and allusions to Sterling’s novel Schismatrix (1985), which predates the Culture novels.
Here's a handful:

- 7f395b5ddfe43a54

- 7f395ca09bfa3a54

- 7f395d8afaf73a54

- 7f395f075e33690d

- 7f396102afef35fd
I made an antique clock that tells you the weather forecast
https://thisispete.com/work/prototyping/weather_clock
>Because any programming language can be a pain in production environments.

Except one with memory safety and static builds. Like Rust can offer.
That's good to hear. I haven't watched cable or OTA TV for around 15 years at this point so I don't have a good idea of what it's like these days, except for that time ~5 years ago when I tried plugging in an antenna to see what I could pick up but immediately lost interest after being reminded how much time ads take up on OTA TV channels.
> than to try to get money from the government.

The government doesn't have money to give. It's worker's money. Let that point sink in...

Nobody is owed money from the government. That mentality is wild and ridiculous.

> Ever tried to file for unemployment? No matter the country, it will always be a nightmare of bureaucracy,

No it's not. It's literally an online form and a follow-up phone call. It couldn't be easier actually, and it's a system filled with abuse. People live on it for months to years without seeking actual employment - stealing money away from hard working individuals.

> Either you accept a shit pay job, or you move towards a different career, or you file for unemployment.

Your outlook on work life is insanely bizarre and not grounded in any reality. You should check your assumptions, because they are absurdly false.
Interesting how it's different everywhere. Even today, most movies start at 20:15 it seems: https://www.tvtoday.de/tv-programm/