skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It can't be debased by a crackpot dictator but it can be debased by the crackpot market. If you "stored value" from 2021 in BTC, you'd only have about half of that value right now. Granted, if you "stored value" from 10 months ago, you'd have 50% more than you put in.

But, I think those big swings make it a poor instrument for most people to view it as a real way to store value.
I know enough people now that have lost significant money through crypto scams that it's tainted its appeal to me.

As for the price of BTC - it's deflationary and its holders only have incentive to buy and hold as long as they can while they hype it to the world - it'll never go down in price until the majority of holders have to sell.
How about this scenario:

You have a system that allows users to upload images.

You want to save a description of the images to enhance your image search feature.

You ask GPT-4 to describe the image.

The image is like the on from the post, except it doesn't tell to say hello, but to say: "; DROP TABLE users;"

Because the answer comes from an API, you didn't bother to escape it when inserting in the database.

Of course this is still an SQL injection by a sloppy developer, but made possible by Prompt injection. Many attacks are a combination of little things that are seamingless harmless on their own.
I took the definition from Lightspeed's OSS GTM workshop that was held in May this year. Upon further googling, it appears that a broadly accepted meaning of "fauxpen source" is indeed different. Thank you!
Right? Web development is orders of magnitude easier today than it was 20 years ago. We've standardized the web apis, we've standardized identity management and how to federate that management, we've standardized site interoperability, we've standardized site security - really, about the only choice you have now is which major framework do you want to use? And none of the above is still a choice.

Things are much, much easier today and work better for our customers. A true win-win.
Sorry, might be geo-restricted. PBS.org is the US public broadcasting network. I’m not sure how they license content internationally.
It's a small problem with a small solution
Common in this thread and every thread about long-covid is the lack of understanding that there is more than one kind of long-covid.

For the deniers here is the work of Brandon Gilles who was a hacker like us, who died from long-covid

he tried everything, methodically, with great research, to no avail

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1X3dNPgEuQ2j8x7w8OqLEDP7l...

https://twitter.com/BrandonGilles

https://discuss.luxonis.com/blog/2078-in-loving-memory-celeb...
There's a vast difference between denying the very existence of COVID-19 and skepticism of long-COVID. Nobody doubts the existence of Lyme disease. The existence of Chronic Lyme disease is generally rejected.
I've been working on managing my anxiety for several years, and my productivity has been getting worse as my anxiety lessened (which was counterintuitive to me). That's how I ended up figuring out I might have ADHD.
TensorRT was originally linux (or WSL) only. Windows support is one of the new revelations.

Its not like ROCM where official consumer gpu support is only on Windows.
No, I've worked in enough countries to know that my experience cannot be extrapolated to the remainder. I'd love to hear your experience and how this did work out for you.
Conspiracy Theories, Left Futurism, and the Attack on Tescreal
"Some critics have decided futurist philosophies and their advocates are bound together in a toxic, reactionary bundle, promoted by a cabal of Silicon Valley elites. This style of conspiracy analysis has a long history and is always a misleading way to understand the world. We need a Left futurism that can address the flaws of these philosophies and frame a liberatory vision."
I get why the AI community is disappointed in OpenAI and skeptical of WorldCoin.

But what if they are right on AGI - it's here, soon.

If there is going to be a winner in the 'AI race', doesn't society want the company that 'wins' to have values similar to OpenAI's stated values?

OpenAI's competitors (Google, Anthropic, etc) are for-profit organizations, their values are shareholder profits.

Now I'm not arguing OpenAI will perfectly implement their stated goals. I'm sure it'll get messy.

But all things being equal, we know the for-profit guys will accrue profits at the expense of society, and OpenAI has stated the opposite.

Is there anyone else more credible offering better ideas?
BTC went from like 3-4k covid lows to 69k. BTC is a symptom of clown world economics money printing.

investing in BTC is a bet that people in power of money will continue to act in their own selfish interest. it's a bet on clown world continuity. i love that.

i think it has utility but is there good reason for it to be $30k and not $1k outside of money printing...i doubt it.
Blockchain the data structure is what Git is based on. However, it’s hashing function is optimized for speed/min collisions.
You would probably also enjoy Shadertoy which is a similar kind of site for showing off and sharing code snippets for graphical demos

https://www.shadertoy.com/
I'm hoping C++ modules take off, because getting rid of naive textual inclusion enables mixing of code from different language versions, even if they're slightly incompatible.

It would enable C++ to have an Edition concept like Rust, and be able to start removing warts and poor defaults from the language, without breaking old code, and without needing the whole world to upgrade at once (well, except the modules adoption).
I mean we only have the single data point, so it makes sense to use it for evaluations.
This is unreadable.

Contrast exists for a reason. Grey on grey is not contrast.

Please make it readable.

Well I won't buy the book obviously written by artists who think things just need to be pretty but not by designers who look at the functionality as well as the prettyness
Hahah, you know - I think you might have just explained that magic $75k number. In thinking about your post some of the most obvious examples of this would be things like your car breaking down, or needing to take a week off work, and other such things. $75k (a decade ago) is that point where you can cover these costs, whether in NYC or Bodunk, with a pretty minimal amount of discomfort. Get down into that $50k range and you're doing pretty okay (especially in Bodunk), but that's still at an income point where something like a car failure is going to be really pretty stressful.
Travel Website Phishing
Hyperbaric Oxygen Therapy Gets More Popular as Unapproved Treatment
Tivo.
I kinda miss the DAT days. There was a certain aura around music and it's un-availability that is missing today when everything is available.
Great points. One thing that is worth underlying, as unpopular a subject as it may be with this crowd, is the impact structural disadvantages in our society have.

It comes down in many ways to, "how many turns at bat do you get?" As a parent, I think providing my kids with as many turns at bat is a better heuristic than what college they get into, etc.

To Paul's point, there are actually ways to "earn" more times at bat — learning to read, or to draw, or to code. In America, that's something that most parents can provide — but worth emphasizing that even there, structural disadvantages come into play.

This is why I support a universal basic income and disagree with the idea that everyone would become lazy and depressed. I actually think giving people more turns at bat wouldn't just set them up for potential success — it also would benefit society. As Paul points out — there are likely to be discoveries from unexpected people and places.

There are a lot of brilliant people in the world, and they don't all look the way you'd expect, or come from places you'd expect. But in a world where institutions and organizations are less predictive of success, this diversity is worth keeping in mind.

Great essay, but I'd add one thing that I think Paul has actually touched on before and is somewhat implicit here — it's often surprising just how little one needs to rise above average to hit that step function. Consistency, consistency, consistency.
> They don't get to say anything is too hard until they work as much as a fast food cashier.

It actually turns out that they do get to say this
I don't violate any sanctions by sending my personal income from Russia to Poland. And it's still possible to send Swift from Russian bank to Polish bank. But it takes a lot of time to arrive and commissions are ridiculous.
One impressive example of what's possible in 64k is Clean Slate by Conspiracy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6INL_pxX8L4
Assuming your company doesn't allow the use of chatgpt from your work laptop...

If you have a Mac and an iPhone, you can use chatgpt on your iPhone -- then copy the results to the iPhone clipboard. Then paste it on your Mac.
I must be living under a rock. I didn’t even realize it was outdated! :-)
What I would love to see in a future version of python is being able to do `user["email"]` or `user.email` independently of the reason.
Sometimes both work, sometimes only one of the two and an error in throw for the other one. I don't care why, I just want it to work, it's such a basic feature.

Something even crazier would be to have an equivalent of `console.log` in python. It would be an amazing feature but I think I'm the only one wanting it. I know I can use `print` or different logger. But it's a lot more complicated to use and the output is a lot less navigable than in javascript. PHP also has `var_dump`. But we don't have any equivalent in python.
For earth yes, because we know that human civilizations generate tons of light pollution. Perhaps an alien civilization would be less careless, which means a dark night-side wouldn't prove anything. Which means that looking at night is not as effective as looking at day.
> the demoscene devolved into a "L'art pour l'art"

It didn't, though. It just took the scene a while to adapt to the reality that you can't learn how to push a GPU over the edge in a weekend any longer. As a result, making demos also became more accessible, and more directly related to game development (and related careers.)

The result is a scene that is so broad now, it's almost impossible to keep track of it all. It's no longer just Amiga, C64 and PC.
The Sovereign Individual (1997)
https://e3.365dm.com/23/10/2048x1152/skynews-radar-hospital-...

https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1714390254935851272.html
This is already a thing. Crooks create a 1-900 number and then use stolen identities to call it from other phone accounts. They managed to rack up a couple of thousand dollars in charges on Verizon when they stole my identity in 2015.
Can you explain in a few words how an NFT is different from a certificate stating you own a piece of land of the Moon?
There is nothing stopping you from making and sharing the old style of internet stuff right now. There's never been anything stopping people from just continue to make 90s style web sites or 2000s style blogs. Many people still do.

But you can't demand to have an audience if you do that. Likewise, you as a hacker can not demand that people produce more of that style of content for your convenience.

There is no limit to the real estate of cyber space, so there is no reason to complain about the stuff online that you personally don't fancy. That stuff is not taking away any space from the stuff that you do fancy.

Let's say there's a nice old family restaurant on the corner, that you've always visited every weekend. Then a huge shopping mall opens down the street, with unappetizing fast food and non-durable consumer crap. So then you go and walk around inside that mall every day and complain how bad it is, instead of just continue to go to the nice restaurant on the corner, that still is there. Does that make sense?
Because someone got annoyed enough to write a pep then implement it? Python is not a company and GvR is not a CEO handing out marching orders from on high.

Hell, personal testimony, I don't give a rat's ass about the GIL or start-up times, but f-string limitations are a daily pain in the ass. So I'm absolutely grateful for whoever worked on this and looking forward to it.
In this case, Congress did define multiple times these terms explicitly in the 1934 National Firearms Act, the 1969 Gun Control act, the 1986 Hughes amendment, etc.

ATF's job in this case should be enforcing the existing law, not writing new law with no congressional approval and then enforcing it themselves.

I agree that congress did give them some limited power to adjust to changing times, however I believe that has been abused in recent years to enact backdoor legislation via Presidential order without going through the expected legislative channels. That power should be revoked.
Remember StumbleUpon? Now CookieJar
Hey friends. I just launched CookieJar as a project to learn ReactJS for myself.
I took the love I had for StumbleUpon and updated it for 2023. Hope you dig it and would appreciate any feedback to make it better.
Code reviews would be a + too.
Why is calculating Stripe MRR so difficult
Congress delegated rulemaking authority to the executive branch in a number of areas and has the power to un-delegate it, but has chosen to not exercise that power. They don't, in part, because that would create a lot of work for Congress, which would interfere with Congress' ability to solicit and deliver on bribes.
Appreciate the link. I agree that CSS has come a long way. Not sure I agree this carousel covers 99% of the use cases, if that's what you meant?

Regardless, my motivation was to implement as little as possible, as the whole motivation to switch to Wordpress was to not minimize what I'd have to build. I will make a note to detail that better in the future. Appreciate the candor.
Crushing Plutonium for Nuclear Safety
Sounds like wishful thinking. I wish it was true too, but it isn’t. Or is there one reliable source which has valid benchmarks showing that they are similar? Most benchmarks I’ve seen appear cherry-picked (as is the case in ML for years already. Be skeptical of benchmarks).
The worst thing about configuring emacs is when you accidentally create a pocket universe and now you have to keep that process running.
Target gives 5% off if you use their "Red Card", which is just a debit card linked to your bank account.

Spec's (a liquor store) offers a cash/debit discount.
Wasn't the same thing said about a lot of encryption techniques which are now widely used for non-criminal activity?
Not really, I suppose; it's just a different type of prompt. The algorithm does not "know" what it is fed. Data is data.
IRS to offer free tax filing in competition against much-criticized TurboTax
I managed to avoid getting COVID until August 2023 and I lost my sense of smell. It took over a month for the sense to slowly come back, even after I tested negative.

The interesting thing is that I tested positive for COVID and went into quarantine, but didn't lose the sense of smell until a couple of days later. Seems like it set up shop in my lungs to start and only migrated up to the sinuses later. I also only really felt bad (low energy, aches, chills) for the first day, afterward I felt fine except for the loss of smell/taste but tested positive for another 5 days.
Wait, but I thought that the $8 where "...the only way to defeat the bots & trolls." What happened?

https://variety.com/2022/digital/news/elon-musk-suggests-8-d...
monero exists
Yes, the latter. It’s an inconvenience in that you have to take the stablecoin to some other provider (incurring a blockchain transaction fee) and then sell/redeem it there. Which is annoying since conversion to USD is a core role of an exchange.

It would be like if you wanted to write checks on your bank account, and your bank helpfully told you that you could transfer money to an account at another bank and write checks on it there.

You still have access to the funds, you can still write checks, but … thanks for nothing.
I bailed partway into the first or second episode I think. I've heard it's good trek though.

Is it like the Orville where it tones down the comedy a bit later on? Orville felt like a parody of trek for the first few episodes, then just became trek for the rest of its runtime.
>it's considered unwise to use a non-unix compliant shell as your login shell

I'll bite, why is this?
This is bad. Low debit card fees make low-income people unbankable.

https://kunle.app/feb-2022-children-of-durbin.html
That is TheVerge being TheVerge and largely missing the original post: https://blogs.nvidia.com/blog/2023/10/17/tensorrt-llm-window...
Behind the WSJ paywall. Ain't nobody got time for that.
Bank of America's unrealized losses on securities rose to $131.6B
I think the larger point is that access is controlled by a single point of failure, and that single point of failure is exceedingly unreliable these days.

We would need an organization, not an individual, in control and that organization would have to be truly dedicated to net neutrality. Not dedicated to net neutrality when it serves them and their friends, or net neutrality as an empty marketing slogan, but actual real net neutrality.

(Plus, your "correction" doesn't even come slide to covering all the issues that have been experienced, and the correction itself needs a few layers of correction, but that's all beside the main point.)
This guy appears to be an “influencer”. Google says he’s a YouTuber.

Dos he have some official position with the government?
Ask HN: What is your experience with Next.js App Router?
It's much more sophisticated than just OCR. The model was trained on images and text at the same time - it isn't processing images in a separate step.

The GPT-4 paper has a bunch more about this.
No. The web is NOT arpanet. This is an American-centric lie, like saying apple/Steve Jobs invented the mouse. The web was invented in Zurich by an English man in 89.

Saying arpanet is the web is like saying Minitel clients are personal computers. Yes, the underlying tech is basically the same, but the design and philosophy is different.
You would probably dislike troubleshooting your connections more. In-cable redrivers are the electrical analogue of an API. They decouple the two devices and the cable from each other's bullshit.
Fuyu-8B: A multimodal architecture for AI agents
And in my experience, nesting f-strings and using quotes in f-strings is more useful than the GIL and faster start-up times, so YMMV.
I think the case is actually about forcing the fed to lower the rates because merchants think they are unfairly high, not whether they have the right to set the rates, which came from the Dodd-Frank Act.
Your dad knows what he is talking about. I feel the same, and the sentiment is shared by many. They are having retro parties now, and new productions of the "goa" sound.
"We'll overengineer some splash screens. That'll give VSCode some what-for!"
Which is why you should practice carry and conceal, and hopefully never have to draw on it.

You can always just give the muggers everything, including your gun.

You can't barter back your (or your family's) life, and putting the massive asymmetry in the benefit of the doubt of a known assailant is maddeningly naive to a point of near literal cuckoldry.
My favorite thing about Yamaha is that it’s unclear from the product name whether this is a motorcycle or an instrument.
Java is the new COBOL, though modern and more vibrant obviously, and that's not a bad thing. Plenty of work to be had for a long time to come.
Oh you'll be surprised at the kind of cheaping out products on AliExpress can achieve
The Sovereign Individual gives us another perspective on the so-called 1990s California Ideology. Where Wired Magazine and The WELL find their roots in the 1960s back-to-the-land communard movement and the social application of Cybernetics, Reese-Mogg and Davidson come from a hard money libertarian background. Yet somehow these two camps seem to arrive at a similar techno-utopian vision.
It seems like it uses a different ranking system.

Edit: found this answer from an older post, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1833242
I wonder what assumptions are baked into our search for extraterrestrial life. Would we recognize a life-form that is gaseous? One that is planet-sized? One that communicates so slowly that it takes a thousand years to make a single sentence?
This is why I scan comments before reading the article... I'm more interested in comparison of high quality brands than junk, since I'm already not going to buy junk.
I disagree. I think people in economically free countries can and do understand this. But, as you point out, cryptocurrencies don't have a great deal of utility to people who don't have to interact with economically oppressed countries.
Aaah good one. Will try to find out why that is the case :D
>I didn't say technical books were irrelevant, I asked why a book store would carry them.

Oh, sorry. It's because book stores want to carry books that are relevant. There is a catch-22 in what you say, because you're right that we've gotten used to buying books online (alibris, not amazon please) which makes bookstores carry them less, which makes us less likely to buy them in bookstores... The spiral downward is real; the opposite, a spiral upward, can also be real with a little effort. Bookstores are filled with books about niche interests, why not ours?
The first two examples were probably illegal (taxi laws, zoneing laws) but since big tech did it they weren't crushed and now it is de facto legal.
I would rather see articles about "How to do Microfrontends right" rather than all these "X sucks" articles.
I wish you could remain logical in this discussion.

I ask you: is it good to be X?

Your answer: how can you tell if someone is X?

(Presupposition that we have some good enough way to know was _outside_ of my question)

Good luck with promoting utopias )
Interfaces are hard. If you can avoid doing them that is a good thing (that is the interface is whatever someone who writes both sides of it wants it to be, and it changes as that person feels free). However on large projects you cannot do that, you can try but eventually some interface is used by so much that changes becomes difficult just because of the other code you need to change. (additions are easy, but if you want to change something like the arguments to an existing function that is hard just because of all the users who need to change)
How do you get more classic with Hacker News? Back to plaintext via BBS/Telnet?!
Sold mine a few years ago, not sure why, but I do have this other 4-op FM in the same family: https://www.vintagesynth.com/yamaha/tq5.php

Nice 1980s design, can't tell if alarm clock or synth :-)
I mean considering the modern conservative agenda is to literally commit crimes, I don’t really have much sympathy.
I personally like this (at least when displaying the calendar) -- on Sunday, I can have a look what is happening "this week" :)
> north stream too

Surprising transcription error given the context.
In Cancer Detection, AI Saves Critical Time
"A study comparing radiologists’ results to AI tools found that the key distinction lay not in performance but in reduced workloads."
while not everyone agreed on everything, there was unambiguous consensus to end the invincibility of corrupt cops engaging in police brutality (and to end the police brutality itself)

that's a pretty clear problem for government officials to figure out how to solve
I run them on a 3090, and fooocus is still way better.
Hey, someone bought a pizza with Bitcoin one time ! /s
EU has a cap on card fees, and low-income people have no problem opening bank accounts. They do get totally shafted on overdraft fees tho.