skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really wish these articles would figure out a better way to say “this year will be the warmest year on record and our records go back 125000 years”, not that 125k years ago it was warmer than now..
I think I get it. There's no horizontal scroll bar until you reach the very distant bottom, so if you don't know to middle click to scroll sideways, it looks like pricing is the last column, and it's cut off until you scroll that way.
Game artists are going to be one of the largest consumers of AI image gen tech in the whole industry because of how much tedious work is required to get a sketch to a 3D model. So I doubt any serious artists in that field would side with you on that statement and many are probably training their own internal models on their own work anyway.
Please don’t AI detect CSAM. That is a disaster waiting to happen.
I wish people would use their brains rather than seek out charlatans promising unbiased information.

To elaborate, I think that this obsession creates a few interesting scenarios. If people are flatly told/believe how a given media is biased then they don't have to read critically themselves. It can also be used to shut down discussion, your source is biased- I can ignore it.
I keep getting told that, that very few people agree with what I just said.

Every conversation I’ve had IRL on these points, after the initial negative reaction to what I just said, progresses into mutual understanding that an organized government is the ultimate threat when left unchecked - and that these rights are core to the system that protects us from that power structure.

It protects us from the very same people who are telling us to “think of the children.” When Feinstein and co. proposed “child abuse” legislation to “protect the children” - my point is that children need to be protected from her and the power structure she represents first and foremost.

Endlessly repeating that you are “thinking of the children” when you trade their future safety away digs this toxic thought deeper into the cultural zeitgeist.

When I opposed the president’s surveillance program, I was thinking of the children and how it was going to shape their lives in the US.
While I am simply astonishing that so many people are playing along with such an obvious bad-faith troll as the root of this thread...

The vast majority of Apple users don't upgrade year over year. Those that do generally take advantage of fantastic resale values to get the upgrade at little price.

And are you claiming that Samsung or Pixel owners aren't doing the same? I know a number of peers who buy whatever is the newest, and it certainly isn't limited to Apple users.
Probably falling back to Claude 2.
Ask HN: Are you an engineer with back pain?
I'm super curious to hear about your experience with dealing with back pain. I have it too and feel we're underserved here.

What did you do to help it, what did your company do? Did anything help in the end?

If you're down to share, I'd love to chat: https://calendly.com/rohkoh/15min

:)
It is two sides of the same coin I think. People are horrible and wonderful, and museums and forests are both wonderful. If we invent spatial warps I want a front door in one of these big Galician high rises and a back door in a tiny house somewhere forested mountains meet the sea. I'm up for learning Galego.

Edit: I am aware green spain has places where forested mountains meet the sea, so I guess it could be a really short spatial warp, but there is something about standing somewhere you can sing as loud as you can, and knowing no one could hear you but the squirrels.
More detailed report on out of memory or disk space errors on builds
It probably has. You probably need a more artistic and wider perspective.

But also you haven't studied this guy for a long time and seen his work and creativity over a long period. The guy's the real deal, you're just not qualified to see it because you haven't put in the time, and, as you say, perhaps biased toward being a dismissive, pessimistic meanie by virtue of your unfortunate cynicism.

I hope you find a way out of that! :)
Over a two year contract, the difference between a low end iPhone and an Android is meaningless once people are making monthly payments on their phone
Cognitive decline accelerated in over 50s during pandemic, study finds
Do you know how the quality compares to OpenAI? On Kagi I get really fast responses, but I feel that the quality is lacking sometimes. But I haven't done side-to-side comparisons as I don't have OpenAI subscription.
25000 lobbyists. If they don't deliver, what are they good for?!
First-of-its-kind multimodal robot for post-stroke ankle-foot telerehabilitation
Amazon Bedrock has an embeddings option
> Something that I don’t see people talking about here is that MyQ is the core/required integration component for Amazon Key in-garage delivery, a service used by millions of people to have their packages delivered to their garages instead of having them stolen off their porch.

Would be nice if this functionality could work with arbitrary openers via webhooks. You could even have a fancy auth flow that you trigger from your smart home dashboard so users don't have to know or care how it's implemented under the hood.
> but the mission design has only get worse and more strict.

The whole thing is way more strict, boring, and tedious. You can't spend 15 minutes in GTAO without some scripted phone call from some NPC you don't care about ("hello, this is Agatha") trying to get you to spend millions on overpriced junk.

Of course, this is combined with a very overinflated currency where cars cost millions (and them removing the old cars for non-GTA+ subscribers). The whole thing ultimately boils down to a grindy, buggy mess.

> but RDR2 was unforgiving, they had a metaphorical dotted line, and you have walk it, or otherwise you would fail, because it wouldn't match the cutscene.

I'd like to play RDR2 one day, but this puts me off a bit -- one of the main aspects of a game should be the fun it yields, not how its cutscenes look.
As the technology matures, you don't really need to upgrade it every year. You can already see that the updates in phone are incremental. For a person updating their phone every 3 years, it's a big update but that's not the case anymore for a person upgrading their phone every year.
American companies often think that European unions are just stronger than unions in Europe. They don't realize that labor and union laws are different.

Toys R Us tried the same in Sweden. They initially refused agreement and hired only non-union workers. But transport and logistics workers union and finance union started sympathy strike. Toys R Us didn't get deliveries and bank workers refused work related to company.
NYT could easily setup such a system by asking you to top up your account by a bigger amount (say, the price of a monthly sub), but only charge you cents per read article
I think this misunderstands what "ownership of means of production" really means in Marxism. The point is NOT that the capitalist owns the factory, which they then rent to workers, who can choose to do whatever they want with it. The ownership of means of production instead refers to full control over the production process, including the social structure of work that makes production possible. Marx's point is that it is this social structure, primarily, that should be collectively owned (that's why all the discussion about alienation).

It's kinda like "owning a home" doesn't imply just owning the walls, but implicitly also a place with privacy.

So in today's SW world, means of production is not a computer, but rather the datacenters of the cloud, proprietary APIs and control over browser standards. And control over habits of the users, who also participate in production, by generating "content". These things cannot be simply replicated by the workers.
Two other HN posts (that are not paywalls):

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38190645

- https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38191008
https://www.anthropic.com/product recommends the open-source SBERT: https://www.sbert.net/examples/applications/computing-embedd...

Highly recommend preemptively saving multiple types of embeddings for each of your objects; that way, you can shift to an alternate query embedding at any time, or combine the results from multiple vector searches. As one of my favorite quotes from Contact says: "first rule in government spending: why build one when you can have two at twice the price?" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZ2nhHNtpmk
I'm going to bake a loaf of bread
Especially for micropayments. If I google and find a minor 1-liner that taught me something I'd deposit $0.10 or $0.25. If it was something I was struggling with for a long time - like some arcane tar or mt command to use my tape backup drive, I'd give at least a few $. These amounts add up quickly, and encourage a much more wholesome form of publishing.
The term phablet has been pretty much obsolete since 2015 or so. Better accept that we're not going back.
bought a MyQ - tossed it in the trash after 2 months. Even 2 years ago it was clearly designed as a tie in for Amazon Key, which i do not want.

Bought a Tailwind - it's glorious. No batteries, tons of integrations, the bluetooth+android to open/close automatically is crazy solid (doesn't work with ios sadly, but you can buy a fob).
I'm very excited about this. Having a vendor supported toolchain means I might be able to bring Rust into where I work. Embedded companies are very conservative and risk adverse. Have a commercial package with LTS and certifications addresses some of the concerns.
> They do as good of a job as any of us in trying to stay neutral.

Not even close. Anything even close to political has a clear slant to it, from actual article wordings to allowed sources to build the articles off of.
It's because defining requirements is someone else's job, so if you get involved, you will be doing part of their job while you might already be working at your capacity.

The Agile style user stories that often lack technical details because the author doesn't know enough about the technical details means the developer is the one actually writing the requirements (usually as they are doing the work).
You can expect 10 pages of insight, 70 pages of filler, and at least 10 pages of schizophrenic hallucination.
That's fair. Maybe my security background is shining through here. I guess we used to have "slashdotting" but that doesn't generalize well :)

I did do some napkin math to quantify how much that bad traffic may have been: HA estimates between 6857-25576 intallations of the MyQ integration. Let's say 16k clients. HA makes it really easy to detect and "add" the integration (which counts as an installation even if it's not configured), so, that's definitely not all clients hitting the API. Let's say it's 50%, so 8k actually using it. Most users just notice myQ is broken. Let's say some fraction retry, which would look the same as an extra user from a volume perspective. Call it an even 10k users (including repeat users).

The most recent change is after they broke everything past the OAuth dance. Let's say the OAuth request is 1kB. The retry code retries up to 5 times with exponential backoff. Let's say 5 requests over 10 min.

(5 requests / 10 minutes) * 1 request/user * 10k users = 5k requests/minute, or 83 per second, amounting to 83kB/s inbound.

There's no reason to assume those requests would synchronize, but I'm sure there's something (let's say every single myQ user updated at the same time).

If what they're saying is true, sounds like actually malicious botnet wielders can ransom the living daylights out of them. Given 1Tbs DDoS attacks they'd only need a tiny fraction of the full bore ion cannon! ;-)

[1]: https://github.com/arraylabs/pymyq/blob/master/pymyq/request...
Not surprised.

I have been doing intermittent fasting combined with increased cardio activity, significantly reducing sugar intake (only source is from fruits and occasional/once a month indulgences) , and mild increase in fish consumption while reducing beef consumption.

So far, 20 lb weight loss in 3-4 month period. Cholesterol levels were “borderline” prior to weight loss (no statins Rx’d). Fasting glucose normal.

Anecdotally, reducing intake works!

side note: the sugar addiction was real and “retraining” my body and mind was the real effort. The mental fortitude to ignore the usual junk I grab at the grocery store is well understated.
TIL about Spaces. Really cool stuff!
Hahah yeah, I will (feels a bit cynical but maybe practical) raise all prices by 3-4% to compensate for this cost.

Won't packages increase the risk meaningfully though? It's actually something I've hesitated rolling out because of exactly this risk eg. 5 transactions for 100$ where 1 of them gets a chargeback is a much easier hit to bear than 1 trasaction for 500$ getting the hit?

I guess from a chargeback rate "%" perspective it might be better to have just 1 large chargeback instead of multiple small ones... but then at the same time it also reduces the evidence I can submit to Visa / Mastercard / banks that this person actually made multiple bookings.
I feel like we're just getting more precise. It's not actually true that all men are physically stronger than all women. Some men are physically stronger than some women, and some women are physically stronger than some men.

In the past, we were generalizing and that created falsehoods. Now we're able to be much more precise to the actual true reality.

It's also true that social factors play a role. We've never properly accounted for that, so it's much more true today to caveat with the fact that we don't know how much social factors play a role. It's probably not the most influential factor, but it's probably a part of the equation.
Long press the chrome icon, drag it off the screen, it's gone. Tested on pixel 8 just now.
You don't own their API, and it is not required for the device to operate. Just because we pay cable operators (or streaming services) doesn't mean we have rights to all the channels. The system isn't in our favor.
First post I’ve seen here from Aftermath. I think the site only went live a couple days ago but seems like it’s run and owned by a bunch of veteran game journalists. I’m hoping it does well.
Thank you for reminding me about Dave Chappelle’s 3am Baby On The Corner skit.

https://invidious.flokinet.to/watch?v=DP4-Zp-fBXc
I didn't know about this. It's pretty damn good. Thanks!
The early internet had both people interested in Communism in its myriad splinter groups (Marxists.org was one of the first big websites) and people advocating libertarianism in its myriad strands. Compare Mastodon where there was discussion that sites failing to mod out libertarianism might be considered beyond the pale, and ineligible for federation. (I'm not defending libertarian rhetoric, which I find tiresome, but it has been present in internet nerd culture since forever).

The early internet had a huge Buddhist scene (which produced a massive boom in IRL communities). Plus every other "alternative religion" in a Western context, from Hare Krishna to Eckankar. It was where New Atheism started, and at the same time, you could see the occasional figure advocating for American evangelicalism of precisely the sort that most riled New Atheists. People post-internet who know anything about the religions of the world outside the ones in their own area, almost certainly gained that knowledge from the internet.

The rather limited nationalities and races then using the internet did not mean little diversity of views, because you had just enough curious people around that, in aggregate, they could be curious about everything.
Azure OpenAI Service is up, and provides the same models as OpenAI https://azure.status.microsoft/status
I upgraded from an iPhone 12 Pro to an iPhone 15 Pro for the camera. I've got some large upcoming trips and felt the improvement was worth it. I love that now I only need a USB-C cable—that simplifies things a lot.

Day-to-day it doesn't feel that different. Slightly faster and slightly longer battery life. If it wasn't for the camera improvements I probably would have stayed with the 12 Pro for another few years.

Apple really does make spectacular products. They easily last a decade—I've got an original iPad Mini (2014) and a Macbook Air (2012) that have had batteries replaced once or twice, but are still functional. The longevity is just another reason I'll keep buying Apple products.
I think the problem is different. This is not about a technical possibility. This is about who will submit and manage the CSAM fingerprints. With the technology it will be trivial for oppressive governments to query which citizens have a copy of a particular image on their phone.

Consider a scenario:

- you use whatsapp, end-to-end encrypted by an USA company

- someone, perhaps a random stranger, sends you an image in which there is a criticism to a ruling party in Dabujistan

- your whatsapp has turned on the feature to save images on your phone

- you happen to transfer via Dabujistan

With CSAM tech, and fingerprints managed by the governments, you might be subject to jail.
pro tip: write in your favourite language and ask chatgpt/github copilot to translate it to bash/jq
I think “political and social views” covers a very wide range of thought. For instance, an avowed Nazi would not have been welcome in a holocaust survivors newsgroup in the early internet. Someone who is “anti-LGBT” to the extent that they wish those people dead have a similarly extreme view and I’m not surprised that they are policed.

> they would be unwelcome on the Fediverse

I think part of the problem here is central identities. Someone with anti-LGBT views would be entirely welcome in, say, a Lemmy community dedicated to software engineering… because they wouldn’t be discussing LGBT issues and no one would know. But because we have this notion of identity that persists between communities they may find themselves censored because of statements they made somewhere else.
Pretty much any job I might have enjoyed more, if it's not a lot of fancy words for "become a celebrity", will look like minimum wage compared to software engineering. Even when it doesn't, pre-AI software engineers were aggressively stalking around the corners of dark alleys to cut the wages/number of seats of that job.

Most other lines of work guarantee poverty or are a riskier gamble with worse prizes and worse loses.

You want to be at the top of the titanic looking down at those swimming to what's left of the upper deck, not rearranging chairs seconds away from being underwater.
> The vast majority of Apple users don't upgrade year over year.

I agree with that. But young people - for whom status symbols carry the most weight - generally upgrade their iphone in less than two years at a clip of ~50%.

> And are you claiming that Samsung or Pixel owners aren't doing the same?

I didn't claim that. I don't know. But it's less of an investment and far less of a status symbol.
Yes, very much yes.

Your comment has now been enshrined in my encryption web page. [1] Thank you.

[1]: https://everyoneneedsencryption.gavinhoward.com/#encryption-...
I've been noticing it's been patchy for the last 24 hours. A few network errors, and occasional very long latency, even some responses left incomplete. Poor ChatGPT, I wonder what those elves at OpenAI have you up to!
Amazon Olympus could be the ticket to rival OpenAI and Google
"The Amazon Olympus model will have two trillion parameters. If correct, this would make it one of the largest and most powerful models currently in production.

"By contrast, OpenAI’s GPT-4, the current market leading model, boasts one trillion parameters."

If this is legit, then Amazon seriously isn't f*cking around. The Titan FMs were already largely outdated by the time of release compared to GPT-4 so they're clearly doubling down on trying to claw back some custom from OpenAI and Microsoft with this move.

If it's released in December or even early next year, it'll be interesting to see how OpenAI reacts to this. Just a perpetual LLM dick swinging contest over the next couple of years.
These are some strong statements without any reference.

Haven't you personally dealt with any situation in which you have to take a decision based on incomplete information? That was covid for most part of it. You could compare it with a bet, and some bets look retrospectively "bad" (although we have no way to check, don't we?)

There were also plenty of "fringe voices" with ideas that were proven wrong over time, so not sure how you imagine "someone" would have selected "the right ones".
> It was extremely white and nerdy when looked at on average.

Nerdy = Educated, because most people joining at that time were academics or people who really wanted to use the internet despite the difficulty to get there at the time.

As for the "white" part, that's a very racist thing to say. There were a lot of people from different continents even in the early days, while of course the majority was from the US. And as far as I know, diversity of thought is not tied to the type of melanin you have in your skin.
It works great! Until it doesn't, and then someone gets put into jail and the court doesn't bother reviewing the AI's verdict because how could it go wrong?
I would like to start by teaching developers what business logic IS, and how to separate it from the other "layers" of software design.

I can't count the number of applications I've seen that have no clearly defined "place" for business logic. So you see it buried in views, state management, persistence, databases (I'm looking at you, Postgres functions and stored procs), services, controllers ... anywhere and everywhere. Impossible to test, impossible to reuse, waiting for someone to extract and isolate it but no one seems capable of even recognizing it for what it is.

I think if you were to ask 100 developers to define "business logic" you would get 100 different answers. That's the first problem to solve.
Why do the states with "good" gun laws have worse gun violence?
I believe it's coming to Instagram soon. Haven't heard about plans for Whatsapp or Messenger. Threads isn't in Europe anyway.
If only Apple sold more than just iPhones and had some type of services business that could leverage their base of customers to get continuing growing revenue…
> I see human behavior a more problematic issue to overcome than the toolchains, hence why I mentioned the toolings being more modern than what many are willing to adopt.

I absolutely agree. I agree that this is what's holding back adoption of new tooling the most. However, the impression that I get from our conversations is that a new C/C++ is seen as "more of the old thing" while rust is considered a break with the old thing, something new with substantial risk, but also substantial upsides. This perception helps when it comes to considering an adoption.
I can also play this game of stating things without giving an argument:

They do.
Lots of jokes to be made, but we are setting ourselves up for some big rippling negative effects by so quickly building a reliance on providers like OpenAI.

It took years before most companies who now use cloud providers to trust and be willing to bet their operations on them. That gave the cloud providers time to make their systems more robust, and to learn how to resolve issues quickly.
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