skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So we view the browser as one distribution channel among many. We want Ambient to run everywhere. The first platforms we built out Ambient for were actually desktop native, we've since then also added the web support.

That said, we do believe that the web _is_ changing, and that it's becoming more and more viable that one day we'll see big hit games actually played through the browser, for one simple reason; sending a link to someone where they can jump in and start playing with you immediately is a very powerful interaction (not having to wait for downloads etc.). And there are fundamental technological shifts that are making this more and more possible; WebGPU is opening up for more advanced graphics, WASM is making it possible to run near-native code, and WebTransport is making it possible to run more high-demand netcode in games. We're building Ambient on top of all those three, and while it's early days still, we're really excited to see what people can accomplish with them!
Ah, I see, so no value then.
I suspect that most people are susceptible to such techniques. It's not hard to find historical examples of mass delusions or bouts of madness in large populations. Sometimes something like a severe drought (hunger) convinces an entire society that human sacrifice is a good idea in order to improve the weather.

Why wouldn't similar things cause most people to break when a team of people are working to break them, with the aid of drugs and otherwise to make the trauma seem real?
Sorry I was being an asshole for no good reason
> and its privacy extensions are anyway not something ISPs have been friendly to

That is an argument for forcing ISPs to support SLAAC, so it's difficult to bill a customer based on the number of devices in their home. ISP-friendly often means user-hostile.

If ISPs can deploy device-counting DHCPv6, then router manufacturers will respond with IPv6 NAT, and then the IPv6 landscape will be as shitty as IPv4.
As a Brit who naturally has milk in tea, what is “milk tea”?

Is it something else other than the drink I’m used to?

If it isn’t, the UK and Ireland are nations of junkies. Myself included.
No, there's no mechanism in the Word file format itself to store this information. There's the file system metadata (Created/Accessed/Modified time) which tells you for how long the file was open before being saved. However, file system metadata is likely to be lost when you submit the document.

Ultimately, you could not prevent this timer from being spoofed unless you installed rootkits on the students' computers, and unfortunately (for the security and privacy of students) rootkits are what is often used.
A hypervisor, such as KVM. See https://katacontainers.io/learn/
As subjective as it may be I am pretty disappointed with the list.
Here is my last 3 books. Also to disappoint.
"The Passanger" McCarty, Cormac
"Children of Time" Tchaikosvki, Adrian
"Snowcrash" Stephenson, Neal
"Antkind" Kaufman, Charlie

I say four! four last books.
Should bring back in class writing essay tests on paper. One page long. Incentive critical thinking not page length.
The hill assist is done through hydraulic actuators of the regular brakes.

Emergency brakes won't bring you to an immediate stop, but they do slow you rapidly if properly adjusted. If your engine is running away, shifting to neutral or killing it is more important.
It all comes down to how much proof you require before you believe something. Some people do not require iron clad proof before they agree something looks fishy. Others require a very high level of proof before they agree something happened. If you require a high degree of proof you will always have to wait for declassified documents or leaks before you agree on anything.

I can understand why people chose to wait. You have so many different conspiracies and most people simply do not have the time to sift through hundreds of documents to make yourself an opinion. People already barely have the time to read the news let alone follow the conspiracy rabit hole. Most people simple chose to wait and see.

It does get annoying when people immediately dismiss any doubts you have as conspiracy nonsense though. Most people believe in some form of conspiracy without realizing it. How many agree that Epstein did not kill himself?
Yes and I'm saying even that doesn't work as robustly as CoT across different tasks.

What does not work?

CoT is so obviously not just about padding for extra compute.

In a certain way it is but the crucial point is that an autoregressive neural network is pretty much a recurrent neural network and chain of thought encourages the use of the feedback path.
Too bad I live in a developing country when it comes to IPv6. Hi from Sweden!
Looks like you exported your project in debug mode, you probably want to export in release mode.
> If they were separate companies, it would require actual collusion a

I don't play bridge, never learned. A game consists of two teams of two players each. My vague understanding is that you might win if a partner gets ahold of a card that you discard, but that you can't know what card that is without saying so (cheating).

Good players can tell what cards their partners might need, and discard anyway. This isn't cheating, it's just good play.

In a court of law, the former is definitely some violation of antitrust law. But the latter is just good business. And even if it weren't, no overt acts have been committed that could lead to successful prosecutorial outcomes.

Philosophically, it may still be collusion. Good luck doing anything about it.

> It's also be less likely to occur since they'd need some motivation to do so.

Game theory supplies that just fine. If I have a monopoly in A, and you a monopoly in B, then I might just protect your monopoly in B without you requesting that, without you giving me instructions.

And from that point on, if you see a place where you can hurt or help me, you might choose to help without me requesting it or asking. Because if my monopoly on A is hurt... I can no longer afford to help you without you asking. Supporting me is a no-brainer. At least if the other party isn't a complete imbecile, they can see it. While there's no accounting for stupidity (second most powerful force after compound interest), we can already assume that the leadership of these companies is non-stupid just because of the success they've already achieved.

> Why would the shower curtain company even attempt to collude with the bowling ball waxing business?

When they break these companies up, they don't fire 100% of management and rehire. Most of them know each other. Most are friendly with each other, if not friends. Sure, employee attrition will eventually break those bonds ten years down the road. But they already know how each other thinks.

Silent collusion, without so much as a wink or a nod, is definitely within the realm of possibility. The previously existing social connections are present. Their goals were largely aligned before, and nothing has occurred to de-align them. Mutual success may be easier than individual success. A sort of "corporate altruism" can emerge.

Evolution does this shit all the time with symbiotes. It's not like their colluding to co-evolve with each other. You won't find conspiracy evidence in the fossil record that they just started helping each other, it only proved to be a better strategy than individuality, and so they went with it.
CA State Guidelines Discourage Schools from Offering Advanced Middle School Math
... or to doctors anywhere
As a professor at a community college, I am very hesitant to just declare something is AI generated unless is it very clear. If I suspect something is AI generated I run it through 3 different checkers that I found online and if they don't all agree then I don't call it plagiarism. Normally the writing is so vague that it isn't more than a C anyway.
So we need to consider students as resources? That might be a difficult outlook to market to parents.
Space and time (the abstractions) are lingisuric concepts, so this is perhaps not too surprising, but nevertheless interesting.
It's known that the FBI was spying on and blackmailing civil rights activists like MLK Jr. They even tried to coerce him into suicide. They were never held accountable for this, so why would they stop? And without anybody to hold them accountable, what would stop them from doing this to elected officials too?
Not my experience at all. Rust "editions" fairly clearly address many concerns around this.

But I do think that crates.io is a wild west in terms of quality and consistency. Just like npm is. And while crates.io is intimately bound up with cargo, and with Rust dev generally, it doesn't equate with Rust.

I personally think there's a good argument to be made for certain kinds of closed, commercial software projects to just avoid it entirely and carefully curate their 3rd party deps and avoid going out to crates.io to get them.

I'd personally prefer (for some projects) a model of "vendoring" (checking-in) third party dependencies.
People who see education as a valuable credential care.

And yes, there are a lot of people who would like to outsource questions of competence to, "Do you have the credentials that I am looking for?" Any cynicism about the competence of people who do this is fully justified. But conversely, it isn't the worst approach to take to evaluating people when you personally lack competence.

As an example, I would never hire a programmer based on credentials. But it is often the first and only thing that I look for in a random doctor visit.
Unnamed Forum | San Francisco | Remote | Contract

(repost from September 2022 - pivoting back to this ...)

You may know me here as the owner and founder of rsync.net.

This is not a job posting for rsync.net. Rather, I am starting a new venture that involves creating a threaded discussion software very much like what we are using right here on HN.

The full job description, which is likely to be a contract position but could evolve into a full time development position, is here:

https://kozubik.com/forumjob.html

(yes, expired SSL cert and I don't care)
I’m not looking for anything, just pointing out that defaults are insanely variable, and people use them because they are the default. If you don’t know and don’t care and need to generate base64 you’ll use decode64 because that’s the default and it worked fine.

And if I have to interact with that, it’s an interop issue
Seamless analysis, moderation, authentication, of all digital content. Stops Digital IP and Copyright infringement.
If I go to my doctor, or counsellor, or engineer, or mechanic, or... the list goes on... I care that they actually got an education rather than cheated their way through it.

These are all things I can't personally judge competence in, because I'm not competent in medicine, psychology, engineering, etc. The most reasonable way for me to judge competence is whether an accredited school vouches for them via a degree.
Not necessarily.

Walmart also offer DSV, which is a bit of a nightmare.
While your thought experiment is noble, many parents are worried about violence, their children actually learning usable skills and not just social/political ideologies (not taking a side, but that is a thing now), and being prepared to take care of themselves and family and contribute to their community as an adult. In my experience, many public school systems pay lip service to those things but practically are uninterested in that treating the system as just a jobs program (especially for large school systems) or as a political tool a lot of which comes from the Federal government and changes every few years. It is a sad state but true and you can't reasonably blame parents for wanting something different for their children when all attempts and working through the public school system come to nothing.

You also mention community over and over as if every community in the US is similar in demographics or culture which is also not the case. All Muslim people I know, for example, send their children to private school, some driving nearly 50 miles both ways twice a day (200 miles!) just to do it after getting a taste of what the local public school system had to offer!

My own children all went to public school and if I had a chance to do it over again I would have put them in private school.
hear ya loud and clear -- and we use multiple forms of communication.. GitHub issues and discussions are actively suggested when we find that a conversation is turning into something that would benefit others and move from Discord.

Discord is really advantageous for us to have real-time conversations with people though.
Its just a hobby but would love any thoughts or feedback, even if its just that I shouldn't try again :)

Thanks for taking a look!
Amazon is certainly leveraging anti-competitive power here, but I think your justification is wildly off-track. Our goal shouldn't be to force FAANG into a frenzy where they constantly depose one-another, but to stimulate the market for competitive growth. Making companies less-certain about new or novel releases would be the worst way to do that.

Some of the world's most innovative products were designed by subsidized Business Units. The original Mac Lisa wouldn't have been developed if it wasn't propped-up by the success of the wildly-popular Apple II/IIc. Even though it failed, there's not a single nerd on either side of the Apple row that would call that anticompetitive or a mistaken product.
This writeup has a lot more details: https://www.wired.com/story/amazon-antitrust-lawsuit-cuts-to...

DC AG Karl Racine filed a lawsuit over this in May 2021. The judge threw it out, supposedly for lack of evidence that it actually raised prices: https://www.jurist.org/news/2022/03/dc-trial-court-dismisses... I can't find details; it's unclear what the evidence or lack thereof was.

CA AG Rob Bonta filed another lawsuit over the same issue in Sept 2022. Some juicy quotes here (although only one side of the story): https://oag.ca.gov/news/press-releases/attorney-general-bont... The CA lawsuit is set to go to trial in 2026.
I know it's not entirely fair, but seeing stuff like this makes me wary of the Rust community.
The bigger schools like Harvard often have that for the first year classes, especially classes that are required for all or many majors. The class itself, and the lectures, will have many students -- but there's usually ample availability of grad student TAs for more individualized interaction. A grad student is usually perfectly capable of teaching a freshman class.

Smaller schools and upper level classes generally just have fewer people.

Edit: Keep in mind that teaching is something the professor usually just puts up with, to get the resources and credibility to do the thing they are really passionate about (research or writing).
My boss and I have been working on projects together for almost 20 years. Here is how our [dis]functionality works:

1. He tells me how long the project should take and how much it should cost.

2. I agree not to laugh or to cry.

3. I develop the best thing that we can develop with the best team that I can muster.

4. The project takes twice as long and costs twice as much.

5. My boss agrees to not be too angry, too often.

6. Profit?
According to the FTC's lawsuit, Amazon no longer binds its sellers with a Most Favored Nation clause. Instead, Amazon now will refuse to promote an offer in its "buy box" space if it detects a lower price for that good on another website.

The FTC alleges that this simply reconstitutes the MFA since most sales on Amazon take place from the buy box. Amazon responds that it is within its rights to not promote uncompetitive offers that make its site look bad for not having the lowest available price.
> Dynamic types are nice for quick & short scripts

A long list of big products and companies are there to disagree with this. I am not saying that dynamic is better or worse. But saying that dynamic languages are only good for quick short scripts is a wrong generalization that has not one exception but many exceptions.
> the people not committing it would welcome the safety from violent crime.

Cops don't prevent crime. https://prismreports.org/2022/02/23/police-dont-stop-crime-b...
I think what cracks me up about this conversation is that it's an almost verbatim repeat of a conversation I had on reddit a few weeks ago.

There's a certain segment of the developer population that I don't think realizes just how fast C and C++ are. Javascript is _relatively_ fast when compared to other dynamic languages, but not when compared to C, C++, FORTRAN, etc.
Is there some service available for mirroring discord chats the web?
What electronics would the parking brake need to share? It shouldn't need ABS/stability/traction/etc. It's just an on/off state with wither a mechanical or electronic actuator.
MFP advantage I guess is that people from every country added their local brands, dishes and recipes to the database so its not even comparable to other apps.
I think I don’t understand what you are trying to say. Yes, FLOPs per token is the number we care about. Adding ~10x FLOPs and saying “look it’s better” seems odd.

What’s worse, memory use is quadratic in sequence length so adding 10x tokens is just not very smart.
I agree this looks really promising.
The Green Bay Packers: where fans rather than a billionaire are the owners
There should be a government RSS feed of things that are actually news and of import to every member of society. There shouldn’t be more than 3-6 messages on it per year.
The slowdown when taking your foot off the pedal is set by the mfg. it is by no means universal even if it’s common to have significant braking. Some cars are tuned to mimic the coasting of ice vehicles.
If I understand this correctly, that's hilarious -- Cloudflare is essentially saying that nobody can layer their own cloudflare-like offering on top of their DNS. Edge-routing is their bread and butter!

If you want to use the client's IP geolocation to resolve a CNAME to an edge server, this blocks you from doing so. You have to buy Cloudflare's products to get this benefit, and use their edge servers.
Meanwhile, as someone who has done some hiring I throw all cover letters in the (mostly virtual, these days) trash. I have never once found them to be a meaningful signal.
You can get $200 trade-in credit for the Pixel 3 (64GB) if you purchase the Pixel 8 Pro or Pixel 8. This is at: store dot google dot com

For a Pixel 6a, Pixel 7, or Pixel 7 Pro purchase they will give a $30 trade-in credit for the same Pixel 3 (64GB) phone.
Anyone interested in this should learn about Operation Paperclip:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_Paperclip

The US recruited Nazi leadership into science and intelligence positions directly leading to human experimentation like MKULTRA.

This is considered the definitive book on the subject:

https://www.amazon.com/Operation-Paperclip-Intelligence-Prog...
Yup, and a lot more - the wider program was COINTELPRO
This is apparently unpopular but my take on this is that if teachers want students to write something on which AI can get high scores, then whatever they're teaching is obsolete and will be replaced by AIs anyway. Of course, not mentioning AI as co-author remains cheating. But I think the best course of action is to simply allow students to use AI while mentioning it (and the prompts they've used).

I'm in philosophy and so far no AI has produced a text of interest to me. If it did, then I'd deal with it like with any arguments by colleagues.
Do you expect companies to keep their online servers running indefinitely? For the benefit of a few dozen players playing at a time, at best? Splatoon was released almost a decade ago, barely has any players active, offers a single player mode and has had two sequels released since.

Also, if online functionality was available 50 years ago, the exact same problem would have hit Atari games. The technology just hadn't matured enough back then.
Hey, Michael here, CTO of Arize and minor contributor to Phoenix.

The ability to trace a piece of software is a night and day difference for understanding. Once you know it's possible to have this level of visibility into what your code is doing, its impossible to go back. Im really excited to see what people learn by applying Phoenix Traces to their applications.

I've spent ton of time debating the data model of the span information we collect, as well as many different instrumentation options. We started with LlamaIndex and LangChain callback systems as the hook for instrumentation, since those frameworks are a common way for developers to get started with LLMs. We will add support for custom instrumentation, allowing users to manage the creation of spans themselves and avoid framework lock-in. When it comes to custom instrumentation, Im curious where the community lies - are people planning to use OTEL for this, or is the expectation that LLM spans are different enough that they warrant a different approach?
> I have all the definitions and vars in my REPL and so has my IDE. I get completion on all symbols, I can look at call trees, usages, refactor things with confidence, run functions in isolation, replace them, wrap them, all from the REPL and inside my application

This is great, but it only works if you are executing the code that you want to inspect/complete/refactor. In my experience, that just doesn't scale well.

> You need to do runtime validation.

Type systems don't eliminate this, sure, but when used correctly, they _drastically_ reduce it, which is extremely useful.

> And good luck untangling your type definitions when your requirements change.

That's the best part - the compiler tells me exactly what I have to fix to get things working again. If I do the same thing in a dynamic language, I have to track things down myself, wait for unit tests to fail (hopefully I have 100% coverage...), and pray that there isn't an escape.
Ask HN: ChatGPT-like hallucinations after excessive use of AI?
Not sure how long this has been going on for but I often hallucinate text both when I read or write. I might read a comment but somehow my brain gets something completely different. Same thing with writing: my brain thinks of one thing but I somehow write another completely unrelated piece of text. This feels pretty similar to ChatGPT and I wonder if using ChatGPT has made me more AI-like.
Or better yet, get rid of all HOME-work. Do it all inclass.

We train children and up to adulthood that encroaching on time for self is acceptable, and its absolutely not. I remember asshole teachers giving out essay homeworks during christmas breaks and similar, because "we needed to be busy".

No wonder why wage theft is the biggest retail theft we have - those utter lack of boundaries are eroded the moment we set foot in schools.

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/owed-employers-face-little-acco...
I’m most surprised that the embedding is actually linear. I wonder if that makes extrapolation perform better
Blue book exams were super common when I graduated undergrad less than a decade ago—they may be old, but they're enduring :)
Why Billing Engineers in Fintechs should be paid more
Static type checking won the battle, but lost the war to microservices, micro front-ends, micro-repos, and so on.
I may be a bit dim but what's the point of losing battery life for the express purpose of making sure your phone doesn't ... lose battery life?

Just use it like normal and budget in a ~$100 battery swap every 3 years or so.
There's a lightning talk version from GitOpsCon (at GitOpsCon/CDCon Vancouver - co hosted with OSS Summit later in the week)

But they are pretty much the same talk, except at CDCon, I hadn't written the Kubernetes operator so that it actually ran the Wasm module yet. At the end of the talk at OSS Summit, I show it running and I'm so glad you enjoy it! I will definitely check out your new ruby SDK :tada:
I know it's not that popular to care about this these days, but you've bundled React, React DOM etc into your package five separate times.
Linux Patches Allow Changing Hibernation Compression to LZ4