skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Plenty of human cultures feel alien to each other. The recent war is one unfortunate example. Yet on the whole, it works out.

I contest that. What war you have in mind here? Russian invasion of Ukraine? The two people are about as aligned as you could possibly get - they're neighboring societies with so much shared history that they're approximately the same people. They've even shared a common language until recently. This is not a war between people alien to each other - this is a war between nation states.

Note: I'm explicitly excluding political views and national/cultural identity from alignment, because those are transient, and/or group-level phenomena. By human-to-human alignment, I'm talking about empathy, about sense of right and wrong, conscience, patterns of thinking, all the qualities that let us understand each other and emphasize with each other (if we care to try). Concepts like fear, love, fairness; contexts in which they're triggered. The basics. Those are all robust, hardwired in biology or by the intersection of our biology, shared environment and game theory.

The way I would rank it, if 25 = alignment coordinate of an average American, then average Ukrainian and average Russian would all be within 25 +/- 0.05. Maybe an average Sentinelese would be +/- 0.5 of that. Whereas I'd expect an AI we create now to land anywhere between -20 and +40, on the scale of -100 to 100. I'm pulling the numbers out of my butt, they're just to communicate the relative magnitudes across.

> Something trained on the totality of human knowledge will act like a human.

Maybe, but that would have to include much more than the limited modalities we're feeding AI models now.

> And if it somehow doesn’t, it won’t be tolerated. (I’d personally tolerate it, but it’s obvious that the world won’t stand for that.)

Sure, but the issue here is to figure out how to make an aligned AI before we make an AI that's powerful enough to challenge us.
such a bad take
I'm a fan of libraries, not modules, for hard API boundaries. A library, developed and compiled separately and published with versioning, gives you a lot of the clean separation of services without the networking and system overhead. Dependencies should always point from the app to the library as much as possible, so the library should bring it's own dependencies instead of trying to reuse the app's framework/libraries.
My sense of smell hasn't recovered ever since my infection in November 2022. I had a really fine sense of smell before, and I really miss cooking fine meals :(

I'm really looking forward to drugs like these.
Will Intel get working 3nm (TSMC marketing equivalent)? Have they purchased the ASML High NA machines in similar quantities to TSMC for example?
Nov 2022 first time Covid-er here. I lost my sense of smell for about 2 weeks. I noticed it ~2 days before the illness really hit me (it mostly just drained me of all energy.)
As far as I'm aware, that was only at exactly one store. I have never seen that at any Ikea in the US.
> have the original Rev2 RasPi board sitting 10 feet away from me,

ARM was already a magnitude or two more successful than RISC-V before the first Raspberry Pi even came out.
Ask HN: RFC for progress info in API calls? (tired of spinners)
As the web we build (especially with the rise of GenAI & LLMs) becomes more and more dependent on API calls, I find it exceedingly frustrating that there are spinners absolutely everywhere, when it's "just" an informational disconnect - at some point in the stack it is / should be fairly well known how long something is going to take, we "just" don't propagate that information to the end user.

So here's a tentative proposal: add an HTTP header like "X-Wants-Progress: 1" to the request indicating that the client wants progress information.

A compliant server then includes a "X-Has-Progress: 1" header in its response and streams newline delimited numbers-as-strings in the [0.0-100.0] range as progress is made.

Floats allowed, monotonically increasing, same number can be repeated, clients should protect themselves by updating with max(old_value, new_value).

Once the progress part has completed, an empty newline is inserted and the real HTTP result is appended, status code, headers, body and all.

This way clients and servers can opt-in to being "progress capable", and if you ensure you have that capability all the way through then you can switch from the dreaded spinner-of-death to a smooth progress bar.

Thoughts?
We'll need a new site for it: Have I Been Cloned
It's also not as well sealed as insulated concrete forms where you pour concrete between, because the panels have gaps.
It is very inexpensive to check your customer passwords against HIBP [1] or strongly encourage MFA. They choose not to.

[1] https://haveibeenpwned.com/API/Key

(23andme customer using Apple SSO, have strong opinions on customer IAM, passwords must die)
Redcard is not Debit.
For some of us, compiling from source is the ONLY way to do things. If there's a zero day, I'm not going to sit around waiting for someone else to make a binary.

Likewise, simply as a matter of principle, I won't run software that won't seamlessly compile on non-x86 architectures. It's much better that way in the long run.

I run ARM, and I have yet to find anything that won't compile on it, unlike, say, UltraSPARC, PowerPC or Alpha, for which edge cases aren't exceptionally rare.
Agreed. They could have done email link verification which wouldn't require the user to set up 2FA on their side.
My battle against signed/unsigned comparison: the most usual violations
As already mentioned in the movie Mars Attacks, the more interesting question is whether there is intelligent life on Earth.
There is a high likleyhood that the information in our mind contains chaotic effects (i.e seemingly random patterns arising from somewhat simple rules that are pretty impossible to derive precisely from just analyzing the pattern).
Are we all less risky and more skillful than our fellow drivers?
purple and white on a darker purple? Nothing unreadable on the game pages. Check your levels?
I just wish that merchants could pass the interchange fees on explicitly to customers, and so the folks who are paying with cards that have high-interchange fees pay more. I'm sick of subsidizing other people's airline mile because Target charges us the same price no matter how we pay, even if I'm using a cheaper payment method. My understanding is that the credit card companies as part of their merchant requirement prevent that, and it'd be nice to see the government explicitly prohibit that sort agreement. (Some stores creatively work around this by providing a "cash discount" or charge a 'convenience fee')

Maybe the card with the higher interchange fee is worth it for the charge dispute or whatever, but if you want that piece of mind, pay for it your damn self.

I think there's some additional complications that different cards charge different interchange fees and merchants don't find out what that fee is until well into the transaction, so maybe this is harder to do that I realize, but that'd be another spot for some good regulation to make the marketplace more transparent.
If reusable frontend code for your within a single organization or business unit is important, then having separate repos is crazy.

A monorepo with separate build pipelines is better, but still unnecessarily complex.

A framework like Next.js can do the heavy lifting for you. One build pipeline where components are shareable, and pages/routes ans entry are isolated during development and can be deployed independently if required.
How many billions of transistors in your iPhone processor?
It's not going anywhere due to masses of legacy code. It's less of a popular choice for new projects than it ever was.
Now do 5000 more.
Congratulations on the launch. I like the general look and feel. Is your system to perform transcript and digitisation in languages other than English?

I have a Greek podcast that I'd like to generate transcripts. I tried google but results were bellow average. Whisper is awesome in performing the transcript but lacks digitisation - should be _easy_ because in my case it's just two speakers.
I agree, hiring law professionals with proven expertise in the relevant domains can be a valid (and costly) way to do get assurance.

As the parent hints that there are documented ways to do this sort if thing with open source licenses I would like to hear from them how this is done, just because you or I don't know it doesn't mean that somebody else hasn't found a bulletproof, court trsted way to do this.
Hollow words coming from Mozilla. They push this rhetoric with one hand, while the other plunges deeper into the monetized analytics hole.
I would think that a truly advanced civilization wouldn’t even need to leave their system to find life in the universe. They could just develop a model of how life should emerge and use imagery to identify targets that are most likely to have life. Maybe this model is occasionally validated with a remote operated or autonomous probe.
Is there a list of named information security problems like "confused debuty"?
If it's exponential that's a huge assumption that needs more backing.
This is a double edged sword unless you plan to allow them room to experiment. If all the work is in older technologies with no short term or middle term plan to upgrade, you will be hiring people who aren't going to be satisfied with the day to day duties and looking to change teams to a team who is using new things or leave. I think teams being honest and self critical about what their actual needs and day to day operations include is an important part of figuring out what skill sets should be on the team. Too much optimism leads to constant turn over.
There really aren't any, at least for genuine Thunderbolt 4 cables. Anker's 2.3-foot TB4 cable is $40, or about $17.40/foot, while Apple's 1-meter TB4 cable is $70, or $21.30/foot. Not a huge difference.

Apple certainly gouges people a lot of the time, but I don't think their Thunderbolt cables are an example of this; they're genuinely complicated pieces of engineering.
Yes we are only supporting the US right now. We'd love to expand to other geographies in the future, but the states will keep us busy for a while!
Care to explain why. I am in favor of all the maturity of several libraries and framework
Not only that, but even when the landline has Caller ID, there's no guarantee that the numbers you see have any relation to who is actually calling you. Even worse, landlines charge you extra for the privilege of inaccurate Caller ID. When I finally ditched my landline and moved it over to VoIP, AT&T's monthly fee for CID was greater than the entire monthly cost of my VoIP provider.

A shame, since if there was one thing the landline phone network was, it was reliable - in a way that cable can't even hope to match. Too bad that it got to be reliable for scammers as well.
>The next question naturally then is why don't we shut them down?

TBH I think one of the larger reasons why authorities haven't taken more aggressive action against cryptocurrency blockchains is the "prosecution futures" aspect. The capabilities of the system attract illegal use, and truly staying unidentified requires really tight opsec. This gets even harder if you want to be able to pull some value back into traditional currency anywhere in the process.

It is effectively a distributed honeypot the authorities don't even have to run themselves.
Exactly, it regulates collection of PII, which includes most tracking cookies.

It doesn't really regulate "refusing service due to disabling of browser features", but then again it's a complex law, so someone (even a court) might argue otherwise, but it's doubtful.
I've been grandfathered in the PayPal business debit card @1.5% cash back for transactions without the PIN had it for some ~15yrs. Lifetime earnings in the 100k range. They just recently nixed the auto backup funding source which makes it a pain to use now.
Something like this?
https://hackaday.com/2023/08/11/usb-c-cable-tester-is-compac...
https://www.tindie.com/products/petl/usb-c-cable-tester-c2c-...
Not just crytek! Yager also had founding demosceners I believe? There's more in Germany for sure.

3DMark the benchmark by Futuremark is as the name suggests, made by ex Future Crew. The list goes on.

If you go around looking at where most demosceners from the past decade or two work today, you'll find the vast majority of them work at places like Unity, Unreal (Epic), etc.
Aha thank you, I was also stuck with the stage of getting point clouds but there is a video tutorial linked in that page that covers everything from images to the end product.
As supportive of open source as I am, I had no desire to be open sourced.
Ironically you can solve this with header guards in python as well... Old problem requires old solution
In pandas for example that can happen often: `df["count"] == 5` and `df.count == 5` are logically different expressions that will give different answers
This little game is an offshoot of Marcin Wichary's painstaking process producing his book Shift Happens. You can read a bit more about how he came to build a 3d viewer simulation of his book covers here: https://newsletter.shifthappens.site/archive/cover-story-pt-...

That's just one of 46 newsletter entries. Marcin's been working on this book now for 5, 10 years. And documenting the process in meticulous detail, down to choosing and testing the varnish for the slipcover and then simulating shifting light across it in a browser game. It's been a delight to follow along and I can't wait to get my copy of the book.
In all of these advisories there has never once been a mention of cloud being vulnerable. I think it's safe to assume cloud runs a similar, if not identical, codebase, and that these issues are simply patched there first before vulnerability announcements are published. But that's the type of thing no company is ever going to be willing to say in public.
This is only slightly related to the topic, but I still miss Sun. But I say that about a lot of defunct tech companies, so I should shut up.
It's amazing what people fail to notice when it pays their bills.
Decentralized ledger tech is just starting to get there - blockchains are the first inefficient implementation, and newer technologies like Hedera Hashgraph can do it far more cheaply and efficiently. Services are dependent on network effects and independent contributors. As long as people are discouraged from using it we won't get solid examples of usage.

Wouldn't it be ideal if open source apps and platforms could go beyond the slow and risky traditional donation model, and not have to be entirely user-hosted or hosted by a paid company? Imagine social media platforms not susceptible to the pettiness of absolutist employees and owners, MMORPGs not debilitated by IP holders, cryptographically secured cloud software that follows the needs of its users. Perhaps like communes such projects are forever limited by the requirement of a modicum of participant interest and cost-sharing.
COBOL is probably better compared to PHP or Ruby. COBOL was never as popular as Java, and its popularity was relatively short lived; by the time it was 20 it was quickly falling out of favour. In 2023, Java is the #1 most popular choice for serious server side applications, and is in the top 3 overall on pretty much any language ranking you can find. In terms of longevity and super-popularity, its only counterparts are C, JS, and Python. Comparing Java, or Python or JS for that matter, to COBOL completely misses both COBOL's history and the current state of the ecosystem.
Just look up the tennis court to elephant exchange rate. Simple.
And also other perspectives:

https://x.com/FSBRG/status/1714609431877431713?s=20
We once had a meeting with our ex-CTO. The question was how do you envision the technical future of Atlassian. The most popular tag was "fire", referring to the "Five-alarm fire" program they introduced to fight a series or emerging outages. This program was over at the time when we had this poll. Seems like everyone in the org saw that in 2021. Later it was confirmed multiple times, with one of the services down for almost a week for some clients, and TBH with other outages. And in 2021 the CTO just ignored the most popular "fire" answer saying something "while we're getting votes coming in, let's talk about..."

They replaced CTO, but it didn't help. At this point I'm pretty confident it's about founders who cannot keep it under control. So you know, this org is 70-80% KTLO.
What's wrong with it? I don't program really (at least yet) and Java actually seems like a neat language to learn.
My understanding is it's about attention.

When you give it a specific role it essentially hones in on the relevant part of the training data. Researcher in X field? Papers from that field get priority in formulating responses and the accuracy of token prediction for contextually relevant tasks goes up.

OTOH, if you try to go 'meta' - ie. you give it a scenario where it imagines a group of scholars chatting with each other, then it hones in on situations where there is a dialogue amongst a group (ie. a play/script).
Hi,
Will it work for html/APP UI screenshots, Have been trained using UI screenshots ?
Thank you
Integrate it into your IDE, so you get yellow and red squigglies to attract your attention to potential issues - and set it up to fix any automatically solvable issues on save. And if you’re feeling ambitious, set it up to prevent git commit until ESLint detects no errors - and set up your pull requests to likewise reject merges until issues are fixed.
same, also interested in a comparison before I switch from the Redhat one
That makes much more sense. I was wondering how shells are classified under type system theory.
The article still is quite interesting to understand the technology and work that can go into a USB cable and why there are huge price differences.

Of course I would prefer too a comparison between reputable manufacturers. :)
Intel is back to their tricks by reselling the same old CPUs as new.

Not sure why would "enthusiast" want any "efficient" cores?

For low latency and real time workloads your system is as fast as your slowest core.

Unless you can turn them off? Then why pollute the die with these?

They have lost the plot.
I think what you are looking for as an equivalent to the JS `console.log`/PHP `var_dump` feature set is available in f-string formats.

There's not one perfect format to rule them all but the "=" "self-documenting" debug format such as `f"{some_obj=}"` probably gives you a good starting point for what you are looking for most of the time. Sometimes you still want the `str()` or `repr()` representation specifically and would want something like `f"{some_obj=!s}"` or `f"{some_obj=!r}"` respectively. In some cases objects you want pretty-printed to a console might have custom `__format__()` representations as well and it might be something like `f"{some_obj=:some-custom-format}"`.

It's obviously all still differently useful than JS having a full object browser embedded in most common consoles today, but there is interesting power to explore in f-string formats if you need quick and dirty logs of object states.

https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.8.html#bpo-36817-whatsn...
we handle anything from $0 to $50k+. our API bakes in all the nitty gritty of diff APRs, amounts, fees, interest calc methods based on state & fed regulations. For example, KS has cumulative APR calc method with 36% for <=$860, 21% for >$860, while TX is 30% for <$500, 25% for $500-1000, 18% for over $1k.
.. can't those old accounts be flagged to require email verification to log in ?
one situation had two individuals interacting ostensibly for the betterment of both.

a bit different from kidnapping.

or are you saying you always do the right thing? that would be rather incredible.
There is no response too extreme in defense of the utility and relevance of the telephone system. The telephone system is one of modern humanity's crowning jewels, attacks against it are attacks against civilization itself. The government should be striking non-compliant telco executives with AGM-114R9X missiles (they've had several years of warning already) and then start working down the chain of command until the guilty telcos either surrender and comply or no longer exist. I am a moderate.
Currencies aren't supposed to be a good store of value, just a predictable store of value. Investments are supposed to be good stores of value. The government very much does not want people hoarding currency.
> To starve the government financially, through mechanisms of tax evasion.

I'm curious if this has ever worked before.

I accept that next time might be different, but previous examples would add to your argument.
> I just wish that merchants could pass the interchange fees on explicitly to customers

They can do this in almost all of the US, although a few states have limitations.

Here's a good list of states and what their restrictions are on charging more for credit cards: https://www.usatoday.com/money/blueprint/business/credit-car...
> PHP also has `var_dump`. But we don't have any equivalent in python.

Maybe pprint is for you:

from pprint import pprint
# usage, but can do more as well and has more config stuff if needed
pprint({'a':'b'})

https://docs.python.org/3/library/pprint.html
We've both been downvoted to oblivion, which at this point means we're right. COVID really broke a lot of people mentally
Even Etherium? I was impressed they seemed to manage the transition to proof of stake and not blow up the whole thing.

(not a stakeholder myself, so this is only an outside view opinion)
Millions of users reuse passwords. This is nuts. Who are these people?
oh man do i love to see psytrance pop up on HN! opened this while wearing my Shpongle hoodie from 2006, hah! i've been hooked ever since i first heard Astral Projection in the early 00's, though i stopped listening as much when full-on took over, when IM "sold out", when the music became a little lifeless for lack of better wording. there is only one other genre of music that gives me the same feelings of freedom, exploration, and adventure as psytrance: jam bands like the Dead, Phish, etc. which isn't strange if you think about the history of goa/psytrance, where such psychedelic rock was spun for the hippies before this other-worldy beep boop stuff was created. reckon it all comes from the same source, cut from the same cloth.

i miss isratrance. psyshop. i miss going to shows in the forest for a weekend and the freedom of it all. walk around naked if you want, it's nothing but love!

i'm going to share some artists and songs that i haven't seen listed yet from some other sub-genres of this weird music:

- Psykovsky (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onYzuQUmQzo) caution: this one is relentless!

- Eat Static (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzCjkXiVAdM)

- Planet B.E.N (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BadJg0pBwU0)

- Hux Flux (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIO9DFmAOYs)

- Derango (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Fw7meaL83Q)

- Etnica (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A47EaYXcgnk)

- The Antidote (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DUf6aYUW3H4)

... man this post sent me back to high school. thank you for the nostalgia trip! i really wish the parties near me were still happening. when isratrance died i lost touch with the scene. everyone moved to facebook. i really, really miss it. i had a lot of fun collaborating with folks on isra, bouncing project files and stems back and forth. especially the swedes, those crazy forest folks :) reckon this winter i should dust off the gear. take care HN & much love.