skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I want them to want that. Desperately so.

I hate the phrase "facts don't care about your feelings." It's default-offensive and trite. It's also a little untrue; human beings filter their comprehension of facts through emotion all the time, and a huge category of "facts" are arbitrary social norms where the only reason they are what they are is feelings.

... that having been said, I feel like if people were going to want that, we wouldn't have seen Facebook, Twitter, Reddit, YouTube, and TikTok (even Blogger, MySpace, and LiveJournal, ultimately) take off the way they did. It is easier than ever before to host your own content, run your own blog from a static (or dynamic) site generator, and set up your own database of comments that you will moderate.

Almost nobody wants any of that. They want someone else hosting. They want the amount of time they spend doing sysadmin shit to be zero. They definitely don't want to be the front line of comment moderation, where everything from the most well-crafted put-down that will sit with them for days to actual child pornography will be their responsibility to filter.

I don't have an answer. In fact, I think the answer is "stop trying to force it." Let there be a less-free Internet for those without the time and jealously guard the more-free Internet for those willing to do the pain and toil of being independent. The only other alternatives I see are put up a bunch of law around this space (which just cedes the power from unaccountable corporations to governments that become increasingly unaccountable as their jurisdiction grows, and the jurisdiction scope needed to police the Internet is "global")... Or solve the problem from the other end, roll the clock back to the "good old days" when the 'net fit in a bathtub and could be moderated by gentlemen's agreements and peers... And start handing out licenses to use that 'net, while everyone else just gets to live in the late-20th century forever.
Only because you're cheating by using the neurons of the pony.
Yeah at least let us put graphite tips on the control rods.
Firefox is the only browser that has reliable ad-blocking. Chrome allows ads by default because you know, it's from Google. Edge is no better the last I used it. Websites are simply faster on Firefox. But I guess people like me are fast becoming a minority.
Lake Tanganyika's Scale Eating Fish
> Even if they do the work to publish iMessage updates for the old iOS versions it just buys a little time before the new version gets reverse engineered

There's probably a cliff in complexity. Once Apple starts requesting signed attestations from the secure enclave on the devices that have one, it's game over.

They probably don't just yet, since still too many people use iMessage on first-party clients that don't have one, e.g. Intel laptops without a T1 or T2.
I wonder if you could use a smaller model or get better results if you treated each card as a token, gave the state of the draft as an input and the predicted token would be the card to pick. You woukd have to train from scratch with a custom tokenizer.
Thank you!

This is super interesting, I'll have to look into this.
I did that a few years back: https://arxiv.org/abs/2011.11751
At the very least wait for CXL to become commonplace before you get ready to cancel, since that's the kind of interface that is a perfect fit for optane.
Somewhat related: A "Tell HN" I posted today but was shadow-banned after it started trending: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38531407
Thank you.

Old school iOS SMS used black text which was much more readable.

It’s as if I’m writing with yellow highlighter on white paper. Painful.

Worse, it changes the color of (gasp) the iPhone owner’s outgoing messages. So as an android user, you’re messing up MY texts and ruining MY perception of myself. Ugh.

Yes, humans are stupid. But it would be nice if Apple let me customize the colors in my app. I did just pay them over $2K for new phones for my wife and me.
The one thing i never looked for but want to instal asap! 10 extra points for using Go.
Indeed, that’s one of the options we’re looking at, just saying we’re probably going to take a hit because of poor decision making in the past as well as whistling past the graveyard rather than making a tough decision much earlier on.
> Is it really a standard if no one implements it in a way that everyone agrees on?

Plenty of standards are guidelines. The point is the website’s purpose trumps dogmatic adherence to a standard. If the site works against standards but not in the browser, it’s a failure.
The article mentions another case:

> In one particularly horrifying incident in 2009, a chimpanzee called Travis who had been raised by humans from birth mauled his owner’s friend, biting and tearing her face, ripping out her eyes, removing one of her hands and most of the other.

Horrifying indeed...
As other people in his court, with whom reciprocal vows of fealty have been made, heard his promise, he now has to keep his promise our of fear of them proactively removing him (or otherwise punishing him, such as by breaking their own vows of fealty) for breaking his promise.

Today one can lie with much more impunity, at best tying things up in court for years until the person you lied to gives up, at worst being ordered by the court to make good on the promise and pay some legal costs (maybe).

As your synopsis shows, it's not prestige that forced integrity, it's the fact that others heard, and presumably would enforce such vows, even against a king, that forced integrity, even from a king.
They had thousands of engineers alone. Many years ago, Spotify adopted the infamous "squad" model where each individual UI element or feature would have a dedicated team of 6-8 developers, designers, and PMs. Each of these teams would be organized into higher level groups with yet more cooperation staff, and so-on for a couple more levels. Add on all the people making tools for developers, admin, the thousands of additional people to deal with the music industry/sales and yeah, not hard to see where the headcount came from.

They changed structure a couple years back, but headcount didn't really go down.
Definitely, Brainfuck squared.
That's a great point. Both Chrome and Edge are widely used as WebView drivers by some applications, and whether the user likes it or not they end up using one of the browsers that's dubbed market leader. Does Firefox even provide any webview-capable deployment option? If they managed to put together one that didn't weight around 100MB or phoned home, I'm sure it would be widely adopted once it's out.
Sparky is the Arena AI, but no one ever accused it of being a good Arena AI - it is very much only there for the new player experience of playing against a dumb computer when you're first exposed to the game and don't know the rules, or for the computer equivalent of "playing against a goldfish" a deck you made to see how it draws or combos. It's not a Chess CPU.
I don't actually think Apple will care enough to get rid of this.

But why not simply migrate away from iMessage, FB Messenger, Whatsapp and other services already offer most of the same features.

Or, hear me out. Normal texting still works. Trying to get in the cool Apple club without paying the toll seems counter productive.

Anyway, I'm not trusting a startup with my communications in this situation. I have no way to know what controls you have in place.
I hope we get to a place where people like this simply generate an OpenPGP key/OpenSSL certificate for a pseudonym and just throw this stuff up on .onion and .i2p domains. A place where DMCA and copyright literally cannot be enforced because it's impossible to.
OpenAI already did that bait and switch maneuver, nice try guys.
Not the OS-included ones, afaik. Some Apple apps are through the AppStore normally, which can be updated independently (i.e. TestFlight, despite its deep hooks).
THEY MADE PLEASE DRINK VERIFICATION CAN REAL? WHAT THE FUCK
There was until Google and Mozilla decided W3C wasn't moving fast enough and introduced WHATWG.
Before, there was an Apple ID or device that could be banned for spamming. Here, there is no account required at all, just a phone number.
You should upgrade your browser, since IE6 is no longer supported.

(If you don't want us to assume what your browser is, you should say what your browser is.)
and don't buy a smartphone. or a smart tv.
I'd say it's closer to the latter, unless you are already quite familiar with Django. Dropbase is a lighter framework with a more narrow use case, whereas Django is a much more powerful, complete, and you could practically build anything with it. For internal web apps/tools specifically though, it'd be much faster and with a smaller learning curve to build with Dropbase.
Haha, I don't know anything about AI training but that's a really cute trick.
One can argue there are ~8bln of these robots already roaming the Earth.
Agreed with your confusion. I do think you guys are making similar points.
We do indeed have the best bougatsa! It's our specialty, I'm glad you like it.
Hypothesis: Intelligence is prediction?
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One huge shortcoming of the Fediverse as currently implemented is that you have to use a different ID for each app, ie tube.jeena.net/@jeena, toot.jeena.net/@jeena, etc. What if you want to use the Mastodon UI to write a comment on a video? Your comment is going to use a different ID than the one you normally use to interact with videos. Given this, what's the point of federating these different apps with each other?

We need to figure out a way to share a single id across apps. Could be as simple as having a single URL as your user ID profile, and listing multiple public keys which are used by your various apps. The keys can be rotated as necessary since your URL is still the final authority on control over your identity.
I wonder who coded the malware clauses and who knew about them. Didn't anyone think of whistleblowing?

Btw, here's the page with anonymous opinions about the company from (unvetted) employees https://www.gowork.pl/opinie_czytaj,19587

They seem to have a pretty toxic work environment.
These are selection bias, businesses who "refuse to do business with people" and then suffer the legal ramifications of their discrimination usually have lawyers who wisely tell them not to fight it in court because they'll rightfully lose. In these particular cases, it took a couple decades of court-packing to install the right reactionaries to get their token wins.
For small to medium size hardware companies that want to make their products easy for customers to repair and tinker with, and at the same time make it difficult for competitors to to copy the design, what are the options?

Adafruit has succeeded here, I think mostly due to the great online community, innovative support, and the large volume of products they offer. But some Kickstarters have been ripped off by Chinese firms, sometimes before the Kickstarter even ships.

I see a few options:
- Build a brand and community around the product(s)
- Lock the firmware down and make tinkering available through the use of an API or scripting (less flexible as firmware cannot be open sourced, and doesn't allow for better repair and tinkering)
- File and enforce patents (expensive)
- Tie to a cloud based service, i.e. Philips Hue (annoying if that's not the main product being sold)

If others have put more thought into this would be happy to hear your thoughts, or read any resources you are aware of.
> if you’re planning to be a top 10 site on the internet, you’ll need a custom stack

To be fair, that's the case with pretty much any CMS. Even if they start with a stock system, by the time they actually hit top 100/1000 (let alone 10) there's a lot of custom work to be done.

And realistically, a "top 100/1000 site" is almost always going to have a cloud of other sub-sites and related properties. The corporate site, intranet/HR, jobs and recruiting, press center... The penumbra of "Oh, yeah, we need one of those... but it would be ridiculous to build it from scratch" sites for a large organization can be pretty large indeed.
"The chimpanzees destroyed a majority of St. James's fingers, his left foot, most of his buttocks, both testicles, part of his torso, and parts of his face including his nose and his lips."

Two male chimps.
By "politically" I meant that they are openly engaged in politics, in coordination, in support of the installation and legalized use of these kinds of surveillance/enforcement technologies and the policies that support their growth in private sector. This is just obvious and surface level open stuff I'm saying but I'm not sure how aware people are of the various interests involved.
It's just a tool to be used--didn't say it solves every problem. I think of it like a better version of a search engine. ChatGPT basically just summarizes the best (i.e. most popular) content out there. So if you search "Singapore notary/certification laws" you get a better/faster 3 sentence summary than if you were to click through Google results. I find it useful for things, but only so far as it points you in the right direction and provides some useful starting point to then expand on manually.
The "if not them, then somebody else" premise is a fallacy of guaranteed progress, when history overwhelmingly demonstrates that progress is anything but guaranteed.

The computer revolution happened because a string of great men and women made it happen. Unix and Linux very clearly didn't have to happen (as they have) for example, and certainly didn't have to happen in a way that was so dramatically beneficial to the open source community.
It's not like you couldn't transport troops on a passenger train, so I'd say may they never see the light of day again ¯\_(ツ)_/¯. In reality though, I doubt this will result in any serious repercussions for whoever called the shots.
iOS 17.2 Brings Qi2 Support to iPhone 13 and iPhone 14
Love those arbitration clauses. Of course, to the degree that's a contract, it'd still need to be backed up by a court of law. But if you sign up to a service that changes its terms and conditions without ever getting you to sign on to the specific change, you're not expecting any quality of service anyway. They can just change the terms to "we're selling your info for a nickel to Josef" and you've agreed to it already.
How are you going about your treatment of disappearing messages?
Thanks for the recommendation.

https://www.youtube.com/@PlanetScale

Subscribed.
This right here. I feel like the focus on just throwing more GPU at the problem is a mistake many of these companies are making at the moment. The real breakthroughs will come when we figure out how to use the current models and compute power more efficiently. If it’s prompt engineering that leads to this breakthrough, so be it.
The best part of being an adult is being able to make choices. Some people are addicted to cigarettes or other such things. I happen to function best with a single can a day not every day but most days.
Author: welcoming to knowing. This is unavoidable. Outside of extreme measures that will themselves mark, the network effects of use will overwhelm any effort to evade.

The question I think is how too navigate and what consequences will follow. We could use these capabilities to enslave but we could also use them to free and empower.

Scams rely on scale and the ineffective scaling social mechanisms to achieve profit. Imagine if the first identification of a scam informed every potential mark to which the scam began to be applied. Don't forget to concern yourself with false positives too, of course.

The injustice of being unable to take action in disputes due to a lack of evidence would evaporate. Massive privacy, consent, and security risks and issues result so will we be ready to properly protect and honor people and their freedoms?

At the end of this path may lay more efficient markets; increased capital flows and volumes; and a more fair, just, equitable, and maximized world more filled with joy, love, and happiness. There are other worse options of course.
Maybe, but about 40% of people who lean Democrat believe that "woman" refers only to biological sex. [1] This is not a MAGA thing. (I myself lean strongly Democratic.)

Among all Americans, 60% (and growing) believe that a transwoman is not a woman.

So, my core point stands: the transwoman Wikipedia article parrots an ideological minority.

This ideological group happens to be extremely online and fervent, as my downvote status reflects. But they are nevertheless a shrinking minority, per Pew Research, and their views have no place being espoused in a Wikipedia article. It's a shameful contravention of Wikipedia neutrality. [2]

If toxicity makes certain "volunteers" stop squatting on Wikipedia pages, then weaponized toxicity against them might actually be the prosocial choice, as Wikipedia is an important public resource. Drive them out. That's my takeaway from the parent article.

[1] https://www.pewresearch.org/social-trends/2022/06/28/america...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Neutral_point_of_vie...
In ELO like match-making, you typically pair together people such that they are likely to have 50% chance to win. Therefore as the OP says, filtering down to people with high (60+%) life-time win-rate creates some sort of (interesting) bias.

I would select from all games played on sufficiently high level.
> to circumvent the FTC rules on the disclosure of paid product placements

Is it paid product placement if no one is getting paid?

Sounds like the only benefit is a chance at being featured in a "MTN DEW official" ad.

Unless exposure counts as payment, it doesn't seem like this would count as paid product placement. But I'm not a lawyer.
Hmm, not especially, where did you notice this? There are various abandoned buildings, but mostly in areas where people don't really want to live in, I haven't seen this being a significant issue, I don't think.
I've not met planetscale before and didn't understand why you're doing this. From the site:

"Changing a table's schema is one of the most challenging problems in relational databases, and in MySQL in particular. In today's accelerated and rapid development cycles, engineers find that they need to make schema changes sometimes on a daily basis."

Okay, but is this really true? Is it really necessary to have no downtime except in a very few cases? It's honestly rare to have systems that absolutely must stay up all the time, but allowing fiddling with the schema as well just seems excessive.

I'd also say as software dev I'd be very uncomfortable with a system like yours that claims to maintain consistency while running and changing the schema, short of a formal proof.
Definitely possible on even older off-the-shelf hardware. I use 24GB 4090s for 13b-sized models and have even used 12GB Titans for 7b models, admittedly at much slower rates.
Yes, bąblowiec, I'm well aware. My sister is a vet. We always wash the blueberries after gathering because of that (and preferably you should gather berries after a strong rain). Also cooking the berries (like in the case of pierogi) might not help but I think usually will kill them? I've seen different opinions (even among doctors).

You can also get slightly different version of bąblowiec from dogs, and dogs touch EVERYTHING when they go on a walk, so basically if you're afraid about that you should deparasitize (is that a word in English?) the dog every year if you take your dogs for walks in nature (or visit places where lots of dogs poop - like dog parks).

In the end it's not that common (I mean it's common among foxes but not common among people - there's like few dozen cases a year in Poland AFAIR). Probably many more causes are never recognized because it develops very slowly but still - if it was easy to catch people would talk about it constantly.
Show HN: Solving NYT Connections with ChatGPT
Just for fun I decided to see if I could use chatGPT to solve NYT Connections word puzzles. It uses a pretty straightforward BFS search in which the LLM is first prompted to generate several possible groupings of four related words, and then a different prompt is used to evaluate the soundness of each of those groupings.

This approach seems to be able to produce the correct solution somewhat less than half the time.
Some observations:

* For whatever reason, chatGPT-4 seems to be a bit worse than 3.5 at generating Connections groupings. I haven’t tested systematically so maybe this is just some small sample size bias. But at the very least it isn’t obviously better

* It really struggles with the “words that can fill in the blank” style groups. Often it will correctly come up with the right category (e.g. “words that can precede `cheese`”) but will only be able to identify 2 of 4 words in that grouping

* It frequently generates very vague categories (“words that can be nouns”) despite nothing like that appearing in the proposal prompt. Also it will still sometimes score them highly, despite there being several explicitly examples in the value prompt disallowing these types of categories

If you have any idea for how to improve this, please let me know (or send a PR)!
The discovery issue per se was solved even before that. Request-based ("please send me your catalog, I truly want you to tell me about the products you manufacture and/or stock & resell") and ad-only "newspapers" (ask old rural folks if you don't know what I mean, or you can probably find a stack at the register or by the front door of any country diner or farm and feed store, if you can find such) cover it pretty well, and if you add computerization and the Internet to that formula, I'd say those cover it completely. Those require no unsolicited forcing-of-ads upon people, while still allowing plenty of advertising.
I think this is a recent change. Background blur certainly did not work for me before, but the other week I noticed it did.
> there is a lot of unsafe rust code in the repo.

loc says there's 28,277 lines of Rust code. I count 48 instances of using unsafe, and two instances of defining an unsafe function. The vast majority seems to be stuff like calling c apis like fork, setrlimit, and such. That doesn't strike me as "a lot" personally.
Next step, accept user input from VR glasses and we've basically got a holodeck.
>> You do the compare-and-swap when you're iterating over the objects to do some other render pass

OP is describing using CAS to bubblesort an array while it is concurrently read by another thread rendering something based on its contents? That seems kind of wild to me but I don't know why else you add the words "some other". Sometimes sorting is an optimization and isn't necessary for correctness.

The idea of two threads concurrently bubblesorting the same array with CAS is hilarious and intriguing. On x86 the double-wide CAS requires double wide alignment so I guess it couldn't actually work without extra trouble...
Microsoft to Add GPT-4 Turbo, Deep Search, Code Interpreter and more to Bing