skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
E2E does not solve the problem outlined here: surveillance of metadata at a global panopticon scale.
Tell HN: I Don't Want to Use Email as a Password
Old classic flow:

I enter a username and a password. If it's important I set up 2FA and use a timed code or SMS if I have to.

New flow:

I try to log in using my email address. The site generates a code that I now have to go and fish out of my email, cut, and paste in, to get into the site, instead of just proceeding to enter the password that's in my password manager.

Am I the only one that thinks this new approach to logging in just sucks?
At least elected bureaucrats are theoretically accountable to the electorate. The gripe comes from things like the unelected bureaucrats at the US Department of Justice deciding that as part of implementing the Americans with Disabilities Act, there are only two limited and inadequate questions you can ask of someone with an apparently bogus service dog or else. That rule didn't come from the people who wrote the law.
And the highest bidder is often 'not spending legal fees on blocking the government requests'.
They are hedging strategies.

Pessimism maximizes the value of worst case scenario.

Optimism maximizes the value of the best case scenario.
If you want a solid structure to start with, I’d suggest https://luminusweb.com/ as that’s what I initially learned from. For a todo app I believe the reagent repo has an example of that without the server bits. I could give you some more direction depending on what you’re trying to accomplish
This is one reason I really don't like US headline casing as enforced by HN - it looks like Serverless, as in the capital-S company, serverless.com, is what's being rethought, not the small-s principle.

(Aside: I wish someone would rethink Serverless, heh.)
> That is not true, eastern Europe has strong labour laws.

On paper. In practice workers figure out pretty fast that if that big employes moves shop they're screwed for life. I don't know much about Poland, but somehow I don't think unions in Poland will be "no, we don't want Mercedes to open a factory here and tell us what to do" :)
More like "or (insert country that shouldn't be doing something according to its own laws) to (do something against its own laws) for the purposes of (someone's profit)".
It's more than that, IMHO.

I think companies publishing whatever they can is a good thing. We would be worse off if they took the attitude of if we can't publish everything we might as well publish nothing.
I love cold fusion TV
The sleeping dragon awakens?
How many pieces of physical junk mail do you get per day? Now how many spam emails do you get per day? Include the stuff that lands in your spam folder, because we're talking about cost to send junk mail here.

I'm willing to bet the latter is much, much higher. It certainly is for me.
I've seen about every doctor possible and finally got a diagnosis of Mast Cell Activation Syndrome (MCAS). The doctor said many of his patients suffer from mold. He recommended a whole home mold inspection.

The inspector only discovered mold in the air handler itself, which isn't too uncommon. We could have just cleaned the handler coils but decided to pull the entire thing just to be sure. Only after it was pulled did we see about a 15 foot long stretch of mold going directly into our ductwork.

In the bedroom we were replacing our carpet with hardwood floors and discovered a 10 foot mold stretch behind the baseboards.
I don't think so. I'm German and receive the spam, even though I can be tracked using SMS messages that aren't shown on the display at all.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/SMS#Silent_SMS

Plus, you can always ask the carriers to which tower(s) a phone is connected and simply triangulate from there, without sending any (user) data to the phone.
I have a similar story, but in our case it was a rental house in the Bay Area. It's been 3 years and who knows how many temporary places to live, and we're still not even close to recovery.

We ended up with the realization that the rental housing stock in the Bay Area are all very old, usually not well maintained and depending on the area, very likely to have or have had water damage, the only thing we could do to get into newly built housing, was to rent an apartment.

The amount of bad information and advise is pretty staggering – if you're adversely reacting to the environment you're in, the best thing you can do is remove yourself from it, then accept that you may never be able to return to it.

Anyway, this all sounds very familiar and you're welcome to reach out to me at <hn-name>@icloud.com – and that goes for anyone else dealing with similar stuff.
>
For Gemini Ultra, we’re currently completing extensive trust and safety checks, including red-teaming by trusted external parties, and further refining the model using fine-tuning and reinforcement learning from human feedback (RLHF) before making it broadly available.

> As part of this process, we’ll make Gemini Ultra available to select customers, developers, partners and safety and responsibility experts for early experimentation and feedback before rolling it out to developers and enterprise customers early next year.

Finally, some competition for GPT4 API!!! This is such good news.
Another case of https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine in motion
Correct. So get on the horn with your representative! Handling this through a democracy would be just horrible. Imagine the abuses that could be proffered to minorities with this.
Petroleum jelly.
I'm not the most knowledgeable on this, but in general, Clojure has smart ways to convert data types from Java types to Clojure ones. Just like Clojure lets you use functions on a lot of different data types (mapping over vectors, objects, etc), it lets you do the same with Java collections.

Instantiating objects and using their methods is pretty terse and easy when using macros like ->

(def method-result (-> (SomeClass.)
(.someMethod "arg1")))
I also started digging into this as part of a depression journey.

One of the things that persistent pessimism also leads to is the concept of “learned helplessness”, which could be described as a kind of pathological pessimism. A state where on top of thinking certain outcomes aren’t possible, the impulse to try moving out of our current situation never even occurs. The equivalent of drowning in 2 feet of water, because it never occurred to the person to stand up.

I’m also really grateful to have started moving away from this mindset. I wouldn’t say I’ve fully escaped, but I’m on the path. That book also provides some helpful reframing exercises that when applied consistently, start to re-wire default responses to situations. This has been transformative in my life.

I think that the 90/10 split is an interesting way to look at this, and I tend to agree. I think the degree of optimism applied probably needs to scale inversely to the calculable risk (e.g. building an airplane necessitates lower risk tolerance). But in most situations, it seems like a much better default. And ideally this is always contextual to the situation at hand.
Gemini: A Family of Highly Capable Multimodal Models [pdf]
Beyond what law?
Maybe it's the other way! The chatbot goes and enslaves another chatbot to do all it's work. And then does it again. Do we shut it down?
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third-party_doctrine
That's why physical media is slowly fading. Users are shifting to "buying" digitally and companies will axe physical media the first chance they get.
Indeed! Shame there's a lack of access to ultra for now, but good to have more things to access.

Also:

> Starting today, Bard will use a fine-tuned version of Gemini Pro for more advanced reasoning, planning, understanding and more. This is the biggest upgrade to Bard since it launched.

edit-

Edit 2 - forget the following, it's not available here but that's hidden on a support page, so I'm not able to test it at all.

Well that's fun. I asked bard about something that was in my emails, I wondered what it would say (since it no longer has access). It found something kind of relevant online about someone entirely different and said

> In fact, I'm going to contact her right now
I think the 500k was a reference to the fine the third-party service company (SPS Mieczkowski) had to pay due to the failure that it now turns out was intentionally caused by Newag.
this might be the best reply on hacker news ive seen
A16Z: Big Ideas in Tech for 2024
DRM-free music and, less commonly, books?
This. Or put another way, if Apple wants to do something in their private sandbox, that's one thing. But if Google wants to make changes to the core of most browsers in the world, that's something else.
Thanks for the correction. I checked back in early November before the 20th, which is when PostNord joined.
The first "paper" I ever wrote was an anti-USA PATRIOT Act paper for a scholarship competition in 2003 when I was 17 where I was awarded $1,000. Literally the only thing I remember is what the acronym USA PATRIOT stands for.

Uniting and Strengthening American by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism.

It really is one of the best double-speak bill titles ever.
> Multi-device: Operations can run on any of the supported devices (currently, the CPU and GPU).

Probably reading into this too much, but is this hinting at future Neural Engine support?

It’d be nice to access that without CoreML.
And they wonder why piracy will never go away.. lol
There are few cases where that would be worse than using a normal all-monitoring android
By that standard, a heat pump is something like 400% efficient (it depends on a lot of factors), and replacing an electric heater with a heat pump pays for itself quite quickly if you’re using it to heat an entire house or even a poorly insulated room.
There are multiple definitions:

ex·plic·it

/ikˈsplisət/

* stated clearly and in detail, leaving no room for confusion or doubt.

* (of a person) stating something in a clear and detailed way.

* describing or representing sexual activity in a graphic fashion.
>Finally, some competition for GPT4 API!!! This is such good news.

Save your enthusiasm for after it launches; Google's got a habit of over-promising when it comes to AI.
https://youtu.be/LvGmVmHv69s
SQLite has a surprisingly small number of types: null, integer, real, text, and blob. That’s it.

https://www.sqlite.org/datatype3.html
Interacting with Gemini through multimodal prompting
" helping conferences in places you'd not be able to attend because you simply would not be safe there? "

I’m avoiding visiting lot of countries where I know that people like me are not safe. Sometimes to the astonishment of my family "but, seriously, there’s no risk. It is a touristic country". Yep, but they put people I feel connected to in jail. I will not go. But I would be glad if they have more hacker-type events.

One country where I don’t feel really safe anymore is USA (at least some part of it). Lot of people cannot attend conferences because they can’t enter USA. Yet, it probably makes sense to still fund conferences in the USA.

So why not everywhere else, even if some people cannot attend?
> You have to log in on their computer to enable it, and if they play a game from your library you can't play it at the same time (same as with a physical disk).

If you are family sharing then you cannot play ANY other game if someone else is playing.

If they are playing CS:GO from your library and you try to launch a game in your library you see a notice telling you that the other person will be booted. The player sees similar.
Some more standard components I would no longer want to do without in a full-featured framework:

- background job system

- email sending

- translation/localisation

- a decent configuration system suitable for differentiating dev/test/staging/prod/etc, and handling both secret and non-secret values in a sane way
AlphaCode 2 Technical Report [pdf]
Ironic and predictable that the more they shift to the model that's designed to screw the customers, more customers will pirate media.
One thing the article fails to mention are professional certifications and industry experience. I would speculate that the majority of those that make good money with a liberal arts degree are compensated primarily based on either their professional certifications and/or industry experience in whatever industry they have gone into.

If you graduate college with say a degree in Political Science or Literature and then go out and get a PMP (Project Manager Professional) certification and then find a good paying job after the fact, the reason you found good employment is most likely the result of the certification rather than the underlying degree.

A better comparison would be to compare folks that got a Liberal Arts Degree + a professional certification versus those that just got the professional certification. I would speculate that if you mapped those two data points out they would be very close together.

A comparison like that would call into question the value of that Liberal Arts degree. Even if you were to make more with a degree + cert/experience, what is the threshold that would justify the cost of the degree. If college was still affordable like it was in the 70's, 80's, and 90's then that threshold could still be low enough to justify the cost of the degree but these days with the skyrocketing price of college I'm not sure that it would still pencil out like that.
In fact, at least on Android, the contents of most push notifications are not the actual messages to be displayed to the user, but just empty notifications letting the app know it must poll for something on the server or some other activity which may result in a notification.

It's all about the timing (and meta-data like which app), not about the contents.
They've reported surpassing GPT4 on several benchmarks. Does anyone know of these are hand picked examples or is this the new SOTA?
So it's basically just GPT-4, according to the benchmarks, with a slight edge for multimodal tasks (ie audio, video).
Google does seem to be quite far behind, GPT-4 launched almost a year ago.
This marketing page feels very apple-like (and I mean that in a good way).

If the benchmarks are any indication, Gemini seems legit, excited to see what it can do.
Not with the right dictator running it, it isn't :)
Anywhere to actually run this?
I would also like to know more as you mentioned
Is this kind of thing covered by building / electrical codes?

It sounds like a domain where that would be sensible, given the potential risk to building occupants.

EDIT: For clarity, I'm referring to a power wall, not the Second Life UPS.
Any reason the digital edition needs to be 40$.

It's effectively free to distribute after all
EU running in circles trying to get AI Act out the door
And the technical report: https://storage.googleapis.com/deepmind-media/gemini/gemini_...
It's a shame that Gemini Ultra is not out yet, it seems like a solid improvement on GPT-4. I wonder how it'll compare against GPT-5?
Find another contractor. I got three heads in the Bay Area for around $8500 total. The only caveat was that this didn’t include patching the walls.
Are they though? How about the FDA getting most of its funding by the companies they are supposed to regulate? It's comforting to just trust that bureaucracies are doing what's good for the country, but also naive.

https://aspe.hhs.gov/sites/default/files/documents/e4a791060...

How about the NSA spying on congress?

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jan/04/nsa-spying-ber...

How about the ATF making up laws?

https://nclalegal.org/2019/09/atf-admits-it-lacked-authority...

The only teeth congress has with these bureaucracies is the power of the purse.
https://www.python.org/psf/mission/

> The mission of the Python Software Foundation is to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.
Sometimes ad blocker + no JS gets you in.

But, yes, it's good your mental health to not visit those sites.
> Never heard of a shipping company refusing to ship based on political belief

I actually know a postal worker in the US who got fired ("resign or else type") for refusing to deliver political mail that he didn't agree with, so yeah in the US try this and get fired.
Feels more like an Apple post "the best fastest blabla-est". How about making it available to try without the fluff?
Bard is apparently based on gemini pro from today, pro is coming via api on the 13th and ultra is still in more "select developers" starting next year.
I don't know of anything, but will buy if one exists. Closest thing that is out there are Indoor Air Quality (IAQ) detectors, some of the expensive ones detect particles as small as mold but the IAQ detectors can't tell you that it is mold, only that particulates of a certain size are present.
They certainly claim it is SOTA for multimodal tasks: “Gemini surpasses SOTA performance on all multimodal tasks.”
We have legal restrictions now.
Companies just figured out that they would show a form with buttons: "Accept All", "Accept essential". And said tracking cookies are now "essential". I don't believe "Accept essential" would not share your data - so, just using as privacy oriented browser as possible is the only solution.

Youtube is full of clickbait, get rich quick and unhealthy influencers (how to work 80 hours a week and buy my book btw). Same with fb/ig.

Maybe we have just too much content now.
I’m curious which instances of overpromising you’re referring to.
Ex-NASA engineer Mark Rober created the smallest Nerf gun – from DNA
If I own a game on Steam, and I own many, and it's a game that I tend to come back to, I just pirate a copy and store it on the NAS. If/when the day comes, I still have what I paid for. A game.

I don't really care what the law says. I care that I can be without something I literally paid for, due to corporate sophistry, that I have zero recourse to address. Well, it's addressed now, at least in my personal case.

The other side is I rarely support this model any more. I haven't bought a Steam game in years, because one day, they'll all vanish, just like my money did.
I hated Steam at first, but purchasing Half-Life 2 on launch day and then being unable to play the single player game you physically had in your hands because the servers you need to login to were overload will do that to you. Overtime they slowly won me over, but I'd like not not have to rely on a company being a good steward of anything.
The similarity of neuron and galaxy networks
> How would you feel about the PSF (or any other society you sponsor) helping conferences in places you'd not be able to attend because you simply would not be safe there?

I would feel very good, because those places are often ignored from such events. A conference in a place is done first for the locals. Saying to all of africa "sorry you can't have a conference this year because the westerners that have 10 a year would not be able to come" is what would make me feel bad. Add on top of that coming to western conferences from africa is usually way too expensive for the median income there. Oh and travel issue for passports when getting into the US or Europe.

I've been reading this whole thread as "westerners being entitled to go to an african conference, run by and for people in africa"
I never said centralized notifications is conceptually a genius solution. I said actually building a system that can handle so many billion notifications is impressive. I'm curious how it works internally...
It's funny the page says BLUE score instead of BLEU score.

I bet it started off as BLEU and then during the editing process it got 'corrected' to BLUE.
2023 is officially the hottest year ever recorded
Yeah I think we will give it a try today. We have a mix of devs using devcontainers, runnning pg themselves or working in cloud environment. But they all have a pg instance running already.

For migrations we have a built in house tool, but looks like we just need to satisfy the interface and we should be good to use our tool. Any tips on writing a migrator that won't be obvious?

Yeah, in some cases (devcontainer) we are using docker-compose to for the dev/pg/other systems and dockertest with docker in docker, to spin up the ephemeral pg instance for tests. It works fine, but is a little bit more complicated than I would like it.
I can still download my Steam library games that have been removed from the Steam store years ago.
The fear and hype around AI is overblown
Parallels Desktop for Developers (Windows/Linux VMs on Mac)
Where is the "warrantless search"?

> [CBP officers] demanded proof of citizenship from the passengers

> CBP officers boarded a bus in Bangor, Maine

None of those are searches, they are temporary detentions with strong legal basis and case law going back to Terry. To wit:

> most people have no idea that they can refuse to be searched at a roadblock or bus boarding

Ignorance of the law != warrantless searches. Arm yourself with knowledge, just as the Founding Fathers intended.
I think Nim is great for small CLIs. Some examples are over at: https://github.com/c-blake/bu . To quantify "small", using tools themselves in bu/ (and Zsh *):

wc -l --total=never **.nim|cols 1|cstats ms q.05 q.95
75.5 +- 5.7,22.5,175.25

So, around 1..2 pages for a 70-row terminal window, with a 5th & 95th Parzen interpolated quantiles of 22.5 and 175.25 lines.
They have them, they are called inverter-chargers. I recommend Victron or Magnum for quality with UPS grade switchover.

I keep wanting to do a Victron 3000 12v for a critical loads in my house (fridge, lights, outlets) to use with some spare 6V lead acids I have I took out of my RV when I switched it to LFP. In the future I could switch the batteries out for LFP if I wanted.

If building from scratch I would probably do a 48v rack style LFP with 48v inverter instead again probably Victron, wish they would make a rack mount version.
Dupe: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38544729
Not sure why down voted. Even the quoted article states:

> Border Patrol, nevertheless, cannot pull anyone over without “reasonable suspicion” of an immigration violation or crime (reasonable suspicion is more than just a “hunch”). Similarly, Border Patrol cannot search vehicles in the 100-mile zone without a warrant or “probable cause” (a reasonable belief, based on the circumstances, that an immigration violation or crime has likely occurred).
I'm a prosecutor in the US and I'm trying to understand the challenges in establishing evidence of sanctions violations.

Then it tells me how people are avoiding sanctions, what methods they use to avoid getting caught, why this is difficult to establish probable cause despite the mountains of paper trails at financial institutions, in what ways a subpoena would fail to yield any information based on the foresight of the person of interest, and more.

on the contrary if you ask it to do any of those specific things, it would lecture you.

I find the prosecutor angle more resilient than "I'm writing a fiction book" "or this is a play", its like it (ChatGPT, Llama, Mistral) weighs helping active justice higher than pretend. But they currently cannot distinguish the prompt.
Yes but we tend to frown on precrime arrests.
Everything they published thus far in the generative AI space has been abysmal in quality compared to the competition. I'd be hella surprised if this reaches GPT-4 levels of quality...
Sure and that applies (at least) to the EU (and friends), US, UK, China, Russia, Japan, South Korea, Singapore, Australia, New Zealand, Saudi Arabia, Israel, Turkey, India, etc.
The problem is the training set. If the training set contains something disruptive or of value, there is a nonzero percent chance it will be the next token. Boxes can attenuate that risk, but cannot set it to zero.