skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
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It's kinda genius, isn't it?
> If you don't trust them, you're not forced to use them; traditional methods still exist.

Still being the operative word. Consider situation with running banking apps without hardware attestation, etc
Anyone who have used GPT-4 for any amount of time knows it is definitely not "reproduce, mix and match text from an enormous corpus". Also what's the point of the question. GPT has been specifically trained to not answer this. But in any case here is the answer with instruct model which generally is more open ended:

Sure, I can compare it to a real animal such as bears. Just like dragons are depicted as fearsome and destructive creatures in mythology, bears are also portrayed as powerful and dangerous animals in many cultures. However, just as the existence of dragons is a matter of fiction, the concept of a "war on bears" would also be nonsensical.

In reality, the issue of war is complex and multifaceted, involving political, economic, and societal factors. It cannot be reduced to a simplistic battle between humans and a particular animal species.

Furthermore, the use of animals in analogies can be problematic as it may trivialize the gravity and complexity of real-world issues. Wars and conflicts have serious consequences for human lives, whereas animals do not possess the same agency or ability to wage war.

In conclusion, while dragons may serve as a metaphor for war in mythology, comparing war to a fictional creature diminishes the seriousness of the topic and fails to capture the complexities of real conflicts.
An F-150 has better gas mileage than a F-250.
It’s a DAG so you can just overengineer it with postgres and a transitive closure.
OMG between this stuff and AI advances we are so close to having household robots!!! Exciting times.
That's the human beings who would gladly enslave your ancestors and congratulate it. And race is totally, totally irrelevant here.

The next thing you will probably say, USA isn't island?
The Samsung art series TV has fooled me in an AirBnB. It took me quite a while to realise it wasn't an expensive framed print.

It was daylight in a well lit bright room. The frame and background were just right to look like modern simple poster framing. The minute sun set, of course it stopped looking right. Thats when I realized we had a TV after all.

My partner pointed out the art had changed at least two times across daylight hours. I had just blanked that out.
Yes, I want to be very clear GP was in response to the argument "Valve can't port games to macOS because macOS doesn't support cross-platform graphics APIs". Well, no, there is a compatibility layer, performance isn't stellar but if the alternative is your game doesn't run at all, you can take the hit.

Apple should not be happy about this outcome. It doesn't help them build some kind of walled garden, it just makes their hardware perform worse. They should add Vulkan support!
Honestly you can organize it however you like, it’s just an easier way to define native web components.

Picture angular, or vue, or react - only with native web components and the shadow dom, instead of a vdom. You can use whatever routing you like, use whataver state management you like. Lit just helps you make web components.
I doubt many of these exist. And if they do, they're probably small. I tried to go "API-only" for my SaaS. But I was met with abysmal onboarding conversion rates. And I tried to stick it out, too, improving documentation and DX where needed. Ultimately, I didn't get my first paying customer until I built a basic admin UI for the API. Even though a large percentage of my customers don't actually use the UI in their integrations or day-to-day, that initial friction of no UI when learning the ropes was killer.
Tangental, but twitter is really nice for thoughts like this.

It loads (fast). There's no obnoxious modals or even ads. The whole article's available in plain text. It gives a view/like count. Commenting is frictionless and via a well-established method, and authors often follow up answering questions.

It's my preferred way of reading text on the web. Maybe 2nd to old school personal websites (since they're less likely to get deleted - I don't quite trust twitter to not do that).
A subterranean submarine: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html
Animal friendly yeah...

Does it even try to detect sensitive wildlife?
Copilot cost is a joke unless you're running a sweatshop - it has to boost productivity in minutes/month to justify the cost considering dev salaries.

Personally I think it's priced perfectly - it's a really good typing assistant for obvious code, and helps me stay in flow longer.

In fact I'd pay double for a version with half the latency.
no, they are not. but if you want to get continuing support, you need to go along with what the medics and ancillary staff are saying. for example, physiotherapy.
I'm on the side of the actually-aggrieved.
Great points. Plus almost everyone always gets downvoted for everything, then it comes back. I always wonder why many of my "brilliant" comments get downvoted, but often come back by the next day.
It’s not that simple. While industrial lobbying is real and terrible, it’s also the will of the people at play.

The 19th century frontier “Let Me Do This Myself” culture and the Cold War “Freedom Heck Yeah” culture are real cultural arteries that make many citizens down here earnestly vote against regulations and protections.

There’s plenty of that in Canada too, although it’s shaped differently and has different political influence.

But yeah, for as much as you or I might see a government as a protector of individuals against exploitation by corporations and other mobs, US governments are usually pretty slow and sloppy about it, if they try at all.
Forced marriage is generally recognised as slavery, and very common even today, and in many of these communities every woman was de facto forced to marry.
That car cannot be legally driven in Europe on a B license due to its weight. Phew.
Finetuning 3-Bit LLMs on Consumer GPUs by Integrating with Modular Quantizers
The problem with UBI is the landlords will just jack the rents accordingly. That's what happened in the UK when the govt introduced Housing Benefit. The landlords jacked the rent. So effectively the taxpayer subsidizes landlords.
> Percentage point changes are the right measurement.

I'm not really contesting what the right measure is, I'm pointing out how substantially different the two are and that its important to be clear which one you're using.
Please think. The biometric data is on-device. This is, in very simplistic terms, public key cryptography where the private key is locked to a device. How that device is authenticated is immaterial to passkey authentication to another service.
But that would be boring.
> Passkeys represent the cumulative wisdom and experience (and compromises!) of the whole industry on how to keep users safe online.

That is true _if_ you do not highly weigh all the concerns that have been brought up in this thread today. I do not trust Google to help if things go wrong so why would I ever consider such a system wise? Frankly, you seem to be ignoring concerns if they contradict your belief that this system is better. I'm reminded of Upton Sinclair.
I agree, but the space is (and is definitely going to be) big enough for more than one language. AI for science integration - AI combining data from different scientific fields and coming up with new results - is one application I've been looking forward to for decades, and Julia has some advantages for that niche: a rich, builtin type system, and being able to compose different scientific libraries together easily. So at least for the sake of such niches, I hope work on AI in Julia continues.
Prop 65 is a bit of a shitshow. There seemed to be good intentions, but it ends up being a license to sue (much like the ADA), not a state prohibition on certain chemicals. And if you warn consumers, then you're ok. So you see a lot of signs all over the place as a cover-your-ass move. There are a lot of gray areas about what counts as exposure to some of the chemicals. A license to sue is a terrible way to enforce compliance. You end up with law firms which are advanced forms of ambulance chasers running around trying to find someone on behalf of whom to sue the company or individuals who are breaking the law. Since each case is tried by courts (if it gets to trial) you have a bunch of non-experts (judge and jury) making decisions around technical topics with limited ability to coordinate and learn from previous decisions.

This seems to be different. Food products containing any of the 4 chemicals will be illegal to manufacture, sell or distribute in California. Red dye #4, for example, is already illegal in the EU. This is more of a case of California taking steps to keep up with food safety in Europe ahead of the rest of the US.
How has no one yet mentioned that Dota 2 (also running on the Source 2 engine) has a completely playable Mac build?

I play Dota from time to time on my M1 Max Macbook Pro and it runs more than fine. It's very odd the Dota team can justify it but the CS team can't.
Can I print out the passkey as a QR code and scan it back in on a different device?
Almost nothing happened in AI for about 50 years. That's the normal in the field.
Thanks. The selling copy in dumb because the product is.
It's become my swiss army knife of TCP. I nearly always terminate TCP first with haproxy "out of process" of whatever, then have it proxy over a unix socket to "whatever". This allows an immense amount of flexibility, from being able to "wiretap" whats going on in the real world, to default error pages, alarms, monitoring, handling CORS... tons of uses.
Using the iPhone 15 Action Button to trigger IoT stuff with HTTP calls
When will Microsoft fix the root cause, and stop with this 'Attack Vector' BS.

A running application should not, by default, have access to everything on disk (and every program running on the PC too). You will never annihalate every attack vector, especially when the limiting factor is dumb users.
State of DevOps Report – Google Cloud Blog
Legacy contacts.

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/HT212360
This is a great start OP but there are a ton of people in tech that have publicly stated they have donated to the terrorists.

We need to put their names on the list too.
L.T.C. Rolt's biography of I.K Brunel is in its first section really a biography of Marc, the development of one of the worlds first production lines (the block factory at the Portsmouth docks, some of the machines are now in the Science Museum london and the factory is a grade I listed building. His boot factory cost him big-time when the war ended) -And covers the thames tunnel digging in some detail.

https://www.goodreads.com/en/book/show/1828514
Thanks so much!

1. Yeah, I was thinking they may be too much sometimes. What would you recommend for switching animation? Simply fading?

2. That's a nice library, already starred it. How does it work with SEO? Won't Google complain that they are non-indexed pages?
Funnily enough, Dota 2 (also using Source 2 like CS2) is supported on M1. It's not a native build but it runs fine through Rosetta
The argument for passkeys is they make it better. Not not worse.
What? Who is "celebrating" that Apple prevents interoperability? Unless you're saying that buying a macbook is equivalent to celebrating all of Apple's decisions, a clearly false equivalency?
The projection for boring company is interesting at least. They seem to argue most of the "wins" are procedural, and relate to business practices, paperwork and general business efficiency, the "we can do 1km a day" claims not withstanding (they don't claim this. But, it is definitely an out-there claim of their speed) -The reality of the equipment and process they use is still an advance on most, but it's more normal pace of improvement not the 10x people like to dream about.

I wish we had the "Thunderbirds" Corkscrew TBM. Michael Moorcock writes about subterranian ground-melting craft too in his multiverse 'Oswald Bastable' series.
Please don't cross into personal attack, no matter how strongly you disagree with someone, and please don't extend ideological flamewars (or other flamewars) on HN. It's not what this site is for, and destroys what it is for.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Is it illegal to have a company of all gay men, or all gay women for that matter? Serious question
I wish you could buy foods without added coloring agents in general. I'm allergic to red 40 and that's found in tons of candy, drinks, and foods. Can't say I've noticed red 3 very often, although I don't eat candy regularly anymore.

Speaking of banning coloring agents, I've read that Europe bans a few colors that are still used in the US. I wish we had more cross-country regulatory agency communications and accountability. Shouldn't both the EU and US regulatory agencies converge upon roughly the same chemical bans after a while? Surely one of the two regulatory bodies has to be most correct?
> You're saying that a software startup's selection of available engineers is so limited that it's not possible to approach general population demographics?

Yes, because engineers don't follow general population demographics.

> In 2021 alone, over 100k people graduated with bachelor's degrees in computer science. That sample size is too small to approach general population demographics?

Yes. Again, that sample too does not follow population demographics.

> Okay, let's lower the bar. Why doesn't your staffing at least approximate the demographics of computer science graduates?

It does. Which is why I said "mostly" (but not exclusively) male. However that is not a "lowered bar", that is the only possible way things can work out. Unless you argue that a number of male engineers should be systematically doomed to never be hired in the name of equality, because otherwise we cannot reach your perfect demographic distribution.
Soil heat extremes can outpace air temperature extremes
Oh I did read it. I just don’t have any comment to make that might add value.
Dota 2 (also built on Source 2 like CS2) works completely fine on Apple Silicon, albeit running through Rosetta. Not sure what excuse the CS2 team has when the smaller Dota team can do it (they even fixed a bug preventing it from launching on macOS very quickly)
My ~18 month old son is medically complex, and his pediatricians send him to the ER basically every other week. ER docs run a bunch of tests, shrug and say LGTM and send us home. The hospital is an hour away, and they never get any closer to figuring out what the problem is (just follow up with X specialist in Y months). My wife and I are sick of it, but we’re worried that if we don’t take him in when they tell us to that CPS might get involved. So off we go, wash rinse repeat.

All of that to say, if someone wants to leave early, I get it.
This happens all the time. I used to be able to play Rocket League natively on my Linux PC. Then Epic bought it and simply pressed delete on the Linux port.
It destroys a lot of the competitive advantage Toyota has. Toyota is very, very good at making mechanical components to very high precision & quality levels. They've built up this core competency by careful attention to detail over decades. It's one of the main reasons why people buy Toyotas.

With EVs, you remove many of the components that are required with ICE. Hence, it doesn't matter how good you are at making those components and sourcing them from suppliers. Hence, a random startup can do nearly as well as Toyota, with their billions in capital invested and decades of experience.

It's kind of a shame, though, since I'd love to have something with the reliability of a Toyota that also applies that reliability to the EV powertrain. Maybe one of their ex-employees will start something.
I don’t think we even expose the TableAM APIs? They are incredibly hard to generate bindings for from the C headers — lots of inline functions and complex #define macros.

We have an ambitious goal with pgrx and it’s going to take many years and countless hours of developer effort to get there.

It can, however, serve as a way for newcomers to gain experience with Postgres internals.

Regarding the TableAM specifically, when we are able to create a safe Rust wrapper around it, that wrapper will be documented.
As a check against this, I looked for 42" computer monitors, which don't display ads. There are $600 4k 42" monitors in stock at CDW, for example. The same size 4k SmartTVs are about $300. So, yes... there appears to be about a 50% discount for TVs vs Computer Displays, part of which could be a subsidy, most of which I suspect is volume driving down the cost of production.
It is what they talk about during announcements because people like numbers. It looks more serious than "hey look, GPT-4 smart" with some example quotes that anyone knows are cherry picked. But the real hype comes from people trying for themselves.

I seriously don't remember hearing these test results being mentioned in any casual conversation, and I heard a lot of casual conversations about AI. The majority of these center around personal experiences ("I asked ChatGPT this and I got that..."), homework is another common topic. When we compare systems, we won't say "this one got a 72 and the other got a 94", but more like "I asked new system to give me a specific piece of code (or cocktail recipe, or anything) and the result is much better". Again, personal experience and anecdotes before scores.

Maybe people in the field hype themselves with score, but not the general public, and probably not the investors either, who will most likely look at the financial performance of the likes of OpenAI instead.
UBI can only work if it's annually adjusted for inflation.
Back in the 90s, there were legal battles in the US over software capable of strong encryption. There were scare stories about how terrorists and child pornographers would use the technology to evade justice, but people were also wearing T-shirts printed with forbidden code to mock the idea of algorithms too dangerous to share.

It was stupid, and I was ashamed of the regulatory state, but we got better.

we have not gotten any better. our t-shirt snark has, regrettably, faded.
> That said, you are bringing up the right questions on the general topic of account recovery that everyone should be asking even without passkeys: "How would I login if I forget my password / lose access to my password manager / lose my second factor devices" and have a plan. Introduction and adoption of passkeys do not completely eliminate the need for thinking about your account recovery situation.

Talk about victim blaming. Google and other companies introduce policies that make total identity lockout both easier and more problematic. Instead of investing in customer service to deal with this issue, the customer needs to "have a plan". What a crazy coincidence that this policy increases Google's profitability by decreasing support.
Apple adds FeliCa and NFC radios to all iPhones worldwide. Only Android phones sold in Japan have FeliCa radios, worldwide models only have a NFC radio.
Talk about an opinionated headline. If you read TFA, the word "alleges" is used quite often, but the headline itself is not only an indictment of guild, but framed in such a way as if it's an obvious and known fact that Facebook's ad targeting is both sexist and ageist.

But let's back up a second. Facebook isn't doing the targeting; the advertisers are. Facebook is providing a tool not unlike those found on other ad networks. Demographic targeting is how practically all ads are done, and age and sex are probably the two biggest. This type of targeting isn't refusal of service to protected classes.

Is it California's stance that advertisers must now waste money advertising to groups who, by definition, have zero interest in the products advertised? Because of this ruling, will teen boys now have to see ads for menopause support supplements?

I loathe Facebook. I hate advertising. But this ruling is absurd, and I expect it will be overturned on appeal.
Did you have something in mind?
>It is measuring how well it does _at REPLACING HUMANS_

It's possible to do well on a test and have no ability to do the thing the job tests for.

GPT-4 scores well on an advanced sommelier exam, but obviously cannot replace a human sommelier, because it does not have a mouth.
> that was not designed by our civilization

To the best of our knowledge, it wasn't designed at all. It's more like giving a monkey a typewriter and millions of years, with a very crude feedback function (evolution/natural selection) that makes it very hard to backtrack out of a local maximum.

It's quite hard to interface with it because it's not designed to be interfaced with and the whole thing works pretty much by accident, and where changing any variable could throw it off.
Totally. One of the mods I have helps a little bit, but I was surprised how little it helps. Mostly just like allowing workers to help each other haul/construct.

On the one hand I wish it was better. OTOH in the back of my mind I wonder if part of the magic is forcing you to get into the nitty gritty and do you best to manually optimize and if you don't you accept the chaos and inefficiency--nearly a metaphor for life.
Valve successfully use MoltenVK (they even acquired it) to run Dota 2 on macOS, which also works on Apple Silicon, albeit through Rosetta.
More fool me for a mis-construe of the text. I thought he complained .EML were not easy to attach. Obviously his beef is that plaintext is the hard one.

(I am also an NMH user since the old MH days. Just a very simplistic one. The wonderful email-auth-proxy author has made it tenable to use NMH in a world of Oauth)
Learning Nim: Write an Interpreter – Episode 02 [video]
No, cars should not be on the road.
> The claim that google will never insist you set up 2FA by providing them a phone number if their ML algorithms decide your log in is suspicious.

1) that's not what I said.

2) that flow you describe isn't asking you to set up SMS 2FA. It is asking you to verify an account with SMS. Likely because there is no other way for them to verify your account.

> Based on my own experiences with a little used google account and finding the messages of other users who have encountered the same error.

The number of people who've reported that error is super small. Even the link you provided is 10 months old. This must be related to an edge case of not having another 2FA set up.

> What is your basis for claiming that my position is untrue?

You said that it insists you add a number. I don't believe that is true. The example you provided does not show that is true.
Downvotes are emotionally driven, and limited to -4 (I think)... upvotes on the other hand, have no apparent limit.
I’m already on board with the urbanist camp that believes car-focused infrastructure is economically and environmentally unsustainable. EVs don’t help the American addiction to stroads and strip malls.

I just happen to also believe that EVs are no worse than the status quo and are almost certainly at least marginally better than any other alternative on the table.
The universe runs on physics not english, so calling it a 'simulation' or 'dream' changes nothing about our ability to predict and understand it.
Given the adoption of microservices and tech like kubernetes, I’d say you’re pretty wrong in judging that one.