skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What is the upside for google? Their business is advertising and they have a massive platform for this already. What does a chatbot add? Showing that they are keeping up with evolving technology and that they also can train a competitive offering? From a pride perspective I see why they'd want to compete with OpenAI but from a business perspective? GPT+Bing has come and gone... I'm sure google worries about their business model being disrupted by LLMs but it's clear the mere existence of a chatbot isn't enough. So why rush to a competitive commerical offering?
> Mostly that you should always, always find and replace the longest strings first!

In Notepad++ you can mark "Match whole word only" or use a regular expression with word boundaries, e.g.

\bsome string\b
There was an excellent Radio 4 series about this scandal, available as a podcast here - https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/the-great-post-office-...
Show that this is a gender-specific issue because i have the exact same reasoning. I love the coding and bug hunting, but i don't want to arrange myself with certain people.
Ans if you did it wrong, you would be mercilessly roasted on alt.fan.warlord
Being empowered to remove freedom is not a genuine improvement.

There are certainly issues with GPL software, either from the "you can't run modified software on your hardware" or "saas isn't distribution" get-out, or from the "small company X develop free software and charge for support/hosting/etc, so large company Y take that free software and charge for support/hosting/etc without giving back"

The former has attempts to tackle things with gplv3 and agpl, but the latter is a problem. A bunch of people make something cool like elsastic, or terraform, or which is free software, funded from hosting and support, then large beomouth with a near-monopoly on computing offers it with a different label as part of their provision. Companies prefer to buy from amazon/google/microsoft than random small company, and that seems somewhat wrong, but I don't see the FSF approach to marrying

1) how to keep software free
2) how to keep developers fed

When you have parasitical cloud companies
Yup. For example I asked it some questions in linear algebra[1]. The answers (if you didn't know linear algebra) seemed convincing, full of equations etc but the equations were wrong. Looked good, but just totally wrong in loads of important ways. When I pointed out the mistake it geneally returned with a proof of why its previous result was wrong.

Now I could have walked away patting myself on the back, but even with correct equations, the answers were wrong in a deeper, more fundamental way. If you were trying to use it as a tool for learning (a sort of co-pilot for self-study) which is how I use GPT-4 sometimes it would have been really terrible as it could completely mess up your understanding of foundational concepts. It doesn't just make simple mistakes it makes really profound mistakes and presents them in a really convincing way.

[1] What's the difference between a linear map and a linear transformation? What are the properties of a vector space? etc
What an absolute slurry this is: Jumping from defining sentience in terms of what upsets people when subjected to animal cruelty... to arbitrarily selecting chickens as a lynchpin based on that. Then diving on deeper still on a rain puddle deep thought.

Fruit flies are also sentient, while you're out here inventing thresholds why aim so high?

You could have even gone with a shrimp and let Weizenbaum know ELIZA was sentient too.

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At some point academic stammering meets the real world: when you start pulling fire alarms because you coaxed an LLM into telling you it'll be sad if you delete it, you've gone too far.

Lemoine wasn't fired for thinking an LLM was sentient, he was fired for deciding he was the only sane person in a room with hundreds of thousands of people.
Except I'm not talking to a large part of the citizens, but to a single one. Do you type 'google.com' in your address bar to search?
It's possible the date is hallucinated. There is no reason that a combination of system prompt and regular prompt when combined can not generate a hallucinated cut off date that does not match the actual date.

LLMs are statistical models and simply generate probable sequences of tokens based on a context (very much like sampling from Markov chains) so there is no a priori reason to believe that the cut off date is accurate.

More generally, all output from the model that seems to be model metadata should be assumed to be a hallucination.
Great, so now I have to learn a new uri syntax too?
From the compiler's PoV this is buggy code so it's better to make it predictably wrong rather than unboundedly incorrect (=security issues) or predictably correct (=people rely on UB).
Stars are not feature parity.
Nice job. I will upvote anything that reduces the unnecessary bureaucratic load on citizens.
This is highly useful. You could take the idea, generalize it to be reusable for any German form, and make a plan to develop such a thing as open source with funding from: prototypefund.de as their applications close end of the month.
> secondly, digitizing bureaucracy means increased efficiency which means less public servant jobs and they don't want that

Increased efficiency doesn't have to mean fewer bureaucrats. It can (and usually does) mean that the same number of bureaucrats achieve all-new levels of intrusiveness.
I am saying even in the case that the date was given unless you have direct access to the relevant data you can not conclude the date in the output was included anywhere in the input prompts (system or otherwise).
>its library pretty much covers what you need to make your average indie game

Hey, if GDScript could run my idea for a 3D Open hub Action RPG at 60fps with little concerns for performance, I'd have no issue.

But alas, my desire for a proper binding or directly tapping into the c++ comes out of necessity, not some pride as a "real game developer". It's not impossible for GDScript to one day become the WebASM of Godot, but we both know that WebASM was, and still is, decades in the making. I imagine it's simply faster to forge a fast path API and let the slow path work for non-performance intensive games.
Makes it easier to have an engine open behind :(
40 years on and they still seem to think giving talks and making free software is a suitable defense of Free Software. It's passive, and has fallen apart in the face of tech companies that actively use their free software tools to make closed source software that routinely violates user's rights.

There's so much they _could_ be doing. Where's the grant program for startups working on free software? Where's their shop reselling used computer hardware with free software preinstalled, with discounts for low-income communities or libraries? Where's their work with labor unions in tech[1]?

The FSF never adapted once thought leading and making free alternatives stopped being enough to support the ideals of their movement. They just kinda exist now.

[1] Workers' rights may seem orthogonal to user's rights for software, but the power imbalance between workers and the companies they work for is deeply tied in with why companies can demand their workers product software that doesn't respect user's rights, and there's interesting work that could be done here in the long term.
Carl Jung on Synchronicity
Back when people bought their punched tapes to the computers, being that computers operator was a social job, comparable to a secretary.

Look at jobs like optician, where the reverse happened: It used to be a crafts job when glasses were hand-manufactured. Today glasses are produced automatically, so the consultation and sales part has taken over and it changed from a men-dominated domain into a women-dominated domain.

No badness involved, either.
It is quite bad at certain higher-level tasks, like generating exotic language scripts. But for things like Algebra and basic boilerplate programming stuff it is amazing.

Especially for computational stuff, like Math, when using its "Advanced Data Analysis" feature where it doesn't try to hallucinate the answer but generates the code to compute the answer instead.
None of this was secret. I worked at Lotus in the mid-90s and there were 2 versions of Lotus Notes, one for the US and the other labelled "International".
WSL1 is what keeps me on Windows - but I don't understand why they keep calling WSL2 "WSL" as it has nothing to do with the traditional "Windows service for XXX" model. For better or worse WSL2 is just a virtual machine, nothing else, while WSL1 actually integrates with the underlying Windows with a single network stack etc.
It's very weird. Mostly, it's only a few minutes of international news, about the latest G20 or the war in Ukraine, with a focus on what the Japanese government does in relation to it.
Not for long! Someone ought to make a Popplers fastfood chain.
Using the API I can not see a difference. Using the client I think it got indeed too chatty.
We made him with a short fuse :)
I vaguely recall bugs where windows OS version prevented access, rather than office version.

I’m glad the access mess is over, I do wish you hadn’t triggered that memory though :P
I think its adoption was mostly influenced by XNA. A lot of small (and big) games used the XNA libraries, and by extension the .Net framework and C#.
I do think google will fail and will suck at anything requiring a network effect, but I don't think OpenAI's success is to do with network effects. OpenAI for instance has really not cracked social features in ChatGPT - they have a "share link" thing now which they didn't have before but that's really it. Bard doesn't even have any social sharing.

The reason OpenAI are in the lead at the moment is their model is way better than anyone else's to the point where it's actually useful for a lot of things. Not just giving a recipe for marinara sauce in the style of Biggie Smalls or other party tricks, proof reading, summarizing, turning text into bullets, giving examples of things, coming up with practise exercises to illustrate a point, giving critiques of stuff etc etc. Lots of things that people actually do it does well enough to be helpful, whereas in my experience so far, other models are just not quite good enough to be helpful at a number of those tasks. So there's really no reason to use them over gpt4.
yup, I can imagine some adversarial changes being made to the effect that the document generated by this online form can be refused by the administration in question.

OR if there are people interested in efficiency in this administration, despite what the current state of things would suggest, they could embrace this development, buy the rights to this and implement it on their website for everyone to enjoy. One can dream.
In this case it will be better than the original.
btw we turned off auth for now - you can just hit Play
Purely conjecture, but somehow I suspect that private equity has crunched the numbers and decided it's time to milk this one dry.
Kudos on the nice UX for dropdown with countries. I wish more websites do it. Usually, it's "United States" at the very top, and 194 other countries in a loooooong list.
>basically no expenses

I could imagine marketing and PR alone on the scale of a McDonalds would be hugely costly, easily in the high hundred millions or billions.
What exactly makes "chess" baked in?

It sounds like they struck a deal with chess.com to put a bookmark that opens a regular web page. It's no more "baked in" than accessing the same website via Chrome or Safari.

By the way, check out lichess.org. Free, open source, no ads, interesting architecture, servers that don't crash, feature parity with chess.com.
80 bytes was the limit in Italy.

At that time in Italy we did not have free local phone calls, every call would be billed based on its duration.

Now imagine being a Fidonet sysop who on a volunteer basis was running a computer at home 24/7, often having a second phone line dedicated to the computer (at the time even more expensive) to make sure that your users would not clog your home landline making you unreachable all day. Plus overnight your system would need to dial up and connect to your hub and exchange all data produced by your user's discussions (echomail). All the costs were on the sysop and the national hubs in Italy would then exchange with a system running in Belgium or the Netherlands, system which would in turn then exchange with USA. Flat rates did not exist (at least in Italy), and no sysop was asking (at least in Italy) end users to contribute with money or a subscription.

That is why content was moderated in the first place, to avoid off topic discussions that would waste byte and increase the bills. For this reason you would also need to limit signatures, tag-lines and so forth to 80 bytes, which IMHO are more than enough for a signature, unless you want to add ASCII ART to it.
After Linus and other key figures in Linux are gone, lets see how long it takes to still be relevant, or completly integrated in other big corp products, borg style.

Not that many of us can then watch it fold, as we belong to the same generation, however that won't change the evolution of computing world.
The German state is already incredibly efficient at coming after you with threatening letters for not submitting the right tax paperwork in time on the 50 Euros earned form your online side-hussle. If only the same efficiency would get ported to everything else that benefits the tax-payer.
If you have a full MITM (you can do anything you like with all traffic to/from the target), you just do your own ACME validation with the target's domain without involving the target at all. Then you use that to MITM the SSL on any connections to the target (terminate SSL between the other side and your middlebox, then push the plaintext into your target, which is unaware anything has changed at all).

If the owner watches CT logs they will know about it (and you may need to jump through some more hoops once the target tries to renew their cert), but you get a lot of info in the meantime.
No. The concept is that you get taxed on the unimproved value of your land.

So chipsa says that if you own a small plot of land in New York, you'll still pay a lot of property tax (on "unimproved value") because you're right next to the subway and that's part of the unimproved value of your land.

But if you own a large plot of land, the subway is just another improvement that doesn't get counted towards the value of your land. So once you've bought the subway, the unimproved value of your land is lower than it used to be.

I think it's weird to be so enthusiastic about a tax system with such fine dependence on the exact ownership structure of property. It's especially weird when the ownership structure the system is driving people toward is "a very small number of people each own truly massive quantities of land".
Why not to donate this data to a nearest library?
And of course there is sqlarfs, at the bottom of
https://www.sqlite.org/sqlar/doc/trunk/README.md
I hope this starts a trend of digitizing many aspects of the German bureaucracy, official or otherwise.

I've sitting on my hands for the last three months to fill out some paperwork. Additionally, I have to apply for this specific appointment via email a few months in advance and it takes weeks for them to reply and if there's any back and forth, that's a few more weeks.

I love Germany, love the bureaucracy too, I just hate the lack of digitization.
Been using wsl2 for development for a long time I don't see how it's not integrated enough with windows. For my use case it seems completely transparent to the fact that it's running in a vm.
> It can (and usually does) mean that the same number of bureaucrats achieve all-new levels of intrusiveness.

Well, this turned dark pretty fast huh.
How could I do that? I can say the comments and issues were gendered, but I can’t think how to prove what you are asking.
> prevent people from being reckless with having kids

Do people want the birthrate to go down or up? It's very easy to shame people into "you should have way more than the median income and own a house before having kids", and guess what effect that has.
That’s essentially the British social class system in a nutshell: very subtle accents, dress, and manners convey how high you are on the social hierarchy.

Everything is understated, dressing flashy or bragging is vulgar.
That's why you hire Product and UX designers so the engineers don't run wild into endless attempts to find an initial solution through the rabbit's hole.
> IMHO, at some point, it's just about trust

Yes, but you are also literally going to multiply several billions numbers together and pray for a random outcome.

I don't know, maybe some middle ground would be feasible - like have the server-side part open-source, because that's the only part where anything harmful might be (and it's also fairly thin BTW).

But no matter what, the project needs to be profitable for me, sorry to say that, but let's be a bit realistic, you wouldn't work for free either.
Have you spoken to men who have joined yoga courses? Same thing there: it's uncomfortable when you're the odd one out, and assholes who are going to asshole are most egregious towards those who are "other."

The underlying reason for the disparity can still be "group A people are somewhat less interested in that thing than group B people" and not "group B people actively drive out group A people." Everything else just follows because humans suck.
Perhaps the blog post isn't, but the quoted text is:

> With a Tailscale exit node, you’re in control and you get the internet connection you’re used to. This new feature could come in handy if you’re traveling with your Apple TV and want to access the same geo-restricted channels you can see from home.
1k Met Police officers suspended or on restricted duties
I keep them in the freezer and haven't had a fish oil burp since.
Maintaining Balance for Open Source Maintainers
That's... exactly what this is as well? Are you getting a different UI that I'm not?
>If you know the importance of abstraction your already too high paid to work in a game development position :)

Way to tacitly admit the gamedev space is a fundamentally exploitive industrial vertical.
> Is it possible to transparently embed Tailscale into a game to only talk to your self-hosted Headscale server?

https://github.com/tailscale/libtailscale

> Also, is it in theory possible to use WebRTC to negotiate Wireguard connections and not use any control plane?

you can write code to do whatever you want I guess, but that's nothing to do with tailscale
Elon removed that restriction when he first took over, then apparently reintroduced it because of machine learning scraping the site; if you believe that. It is very annoying either way, so many interesting things that belong on their own page or even a blog lost deep in multi-tweet threads.
I just configure each users account on the Mac Mini to download everything from iCloud, and then backup each users directory.

It does require each user to login again every time the mac mini is rebooted, but fortunately that only happens when new releases come around, so 3-4 times every year.

I do periodically check if new photos have been downloaded. I care less about documents as the relevant documents are more likely to also be stored on the laptops, and thus backed up through the normal backup routine on the laptops.

I do wish Apple would come up with a solution to this problem though. The official instructions[1] feels like something from 2003.

[1]: https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204055
to be fair, it's way easier now to do your taxes (as a private person). We can do it completely online with no paperwork involved and its actually quite alright. so some innovation is happening, even in the public sector.

what happens in the company is another thing. it really depends on the people working there.
Well, within today's legal system, social media are responsible what's posted on their site.
I've been planning to move to Berlin and your site [1] is a life-saver.

[1]: https://allaboutberlin.com
> The paper has not been peer-reviewed or published yet. But you can read a preprint version on arXiv, submitted on August 28.

Is it common to see these sorts of review articles published before the actual paper is peer reviewed/published? Strikes me as kind of odd, but maybe that’s normal.
It's hard to process, but the senior police officer was quoted a few months back as saying "give me the powers to get rid of dirty cops".

It's not clear if 1/34 cops are "corrupt", or what the current senior officers think means corrupt, or just useless.

But it's pretty certain that large scale drug money is going to have had some impact.
YC says visa challenges hampering participation of international founders
I'm sorry, but that's just complete nonsense.

> in their mind there's nothing wrong with it because Germany is Europe's wealthiest country so it can never be wrong

There's literally not a single political party that doesn't admit that Germany is being too slow here or that doesn't admit that it's embarassing. On a national and on a local level. You can Google that if you don't believe me.

> digitizing bureaucracy means increased efficiency which means less public servant jobs and they don't want that

Also wrong. There's plenty of unfillable public servant jobs in every city. Public servant jobs are not what they were in the 70s.

> In German state and traditional company culture, digitization is seen as a threat, not an asset.

Also wrong. Germany just upgraded too early, then let everything run and stopped upgrading because the current system works. That's all there is to it. It's also the reason why Romania has faster internet than Germany, for example.

> work process involving copy and pasting shit to and from Excel and some VB scripts

You're in for a wild ride when you find out what kind of IT infrastructure the world uses.

Your whole post is anecdotal and when you try to get to your own interpretation of German culture or why problems exist, you're wrong.

Don't get me wrong: Germany's digital infrastructure _is_ horrible. Just not at all for the reasons you mentioned.
I see now. I misunderstood: I thought you were saying that dumping the remaining steel shells in the ocean was terrible for the ocean. Yeah, burning all that stuff is terrible.
Such people exist. I have a few acquaintances in city government. They're interested in helping, although some are either busy, tangled in red tape, or unimaginative. They are definitely not hostile through.
Opera has been doing this "custom version" thing for a little while as a kind of marketing tactic.

I've seen it with a few popular content creators getting their own "custom version" of Opera where it has an on-brand theme and links to their content directly baked into the browser download. Presumably there is some kind of customisation pass that thinly wraps the regular installation process.

I don't personally get the appeal but maybe big brands are more likely to feature the browser if it's customised (eg. live streaming a big chess.com game where the "official" tournament client is the Chess.com Opera Browser).
On that topic I love the Welsh-English encounter of civil servants thinking they understood each other[0]

[0] http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/7702913.stm
Click the JohnPassaniti link. That is funny, loved it!
Oh my word.
Oddly enough it doesn't list countries where most people are likely to come from right at the top. That makes it ill designed still.
Either pullup or pulldown resistors would have helped - you see this a lot in PCB design, even short traces that are used for signalling will be pulled low or high via a relatively high resistance. That ensures that you have a sharp transition when the switch or whatever is closed or opened and that a floating voltage can't appear over time on your line and cause false triggers.