skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Read at least the summary of James Scott's Seeing Like a State (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seeing_Like_a_State) and let the concept of legibility percolate for a bit.

Governments view legibility of their constituencies as a feature, not a bug. They want to be able to query the population like a database in order to manage it better. This is exactly like a product manager at a tech company who wants to know whether a certain feature is being used, and asks for more instrumentation in the next release of the product if needed. Over time the product (the population) becomes better and better instrumented.

Of course, the other side of the coin of better legibility is worse privacy. Their feature is your bug.

Are there ways to circumvent or mitigate what's happening? For you, personally, sure. You can turn on all the buried options, add VPNs, proxies, additional profiles/accounts, etc. And for a while it will work.

But you're defeating legibility by doing that, so you're fighting against a very strong opposing force. Over time, the bugs that reduce legibility coverage will be fixed. The options will go away, VPNs will be banned or at least instrumented well enough to nullify their utility, COPPA and porn age-verification laws will extend to make multiple or anonymous identities impractical, and so on. And the few of us who do manage to go online fully anonymously might as well be wearing a "CRIMINAL" hat, because the public will have been trained that only bad actors want privacy, but not to worry if they themselves have nothing to hide.

You can see this already happening with financial transactions. Try to conduct a significant low-legibility transaction (in other words, buy something big with cash). Your bank will ask why you want to withdraw $20,000. Cops might seize the cash, legally and without probable cause, while you're driving to the seller. And when the seller deposits the cash, the bank might file a SAR. This is all working as designed. You're being punished for adding friction to legibility.

Even on HN, where you think people would be ahead of the curve, the PR campaign against financial privacy and censorship resistance is winning. Mention The Digital Currency That Shall Not Be Named, and suddenly the Four Horsemen of the Infocalypse are in control. Why HNers are pro-VPN but anti-Bitcoin, when both stand for privacy and censorship resistance at the price of reduced legibility, is beyond me.

The battle to fight is not just protecting your own privacy. It's protecting your right to protect your privacy without being ipso facto declared a criminal for doing so. Turn on all the options, hold Bitcoin, use VPNs, pay with cash, delete cookies, etc. But above all, be an ordinary, conscientious, law-abiding citizen. Render unto Caesar what is Caesar's. Be average. Be unremarkable. Privacy should be the default. Not unsavory, not for those with something to hide. Just the default.
Probably just reflects that they are playing catch-up with OpenAI, and it would not look good if they announced their latest, greatest (to be available soon) was worse that what OpenAI have been shipping for a while, so I assume that being able to claim superiority (by even the smallest amount) over GPT-4 was the gating factor for the this announcement.

I doubt LLMs are close to plateauing in terms of performance unless there's already an awful lot more to GPT-4's training than is understood. It seems like even simple stuff like planning ahead (e.g. to fix "hallucinations", aka bullshitting) is still to come.
So, this multi-modal demonstration is bonkers...

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UIZAiXYceBI
Reminds me of The Expanse when the DJ makes music from Eros
Boutique pencils. Sure.
I had the same thing. Resetting my password on Jetbrain's website and the IDE sorted me out.
Here's what Google said when they implemented it:

"Today, you sign in to Google on a page that includes both the ‘email’ and ‘password’ fields on the same page. We’ll be gradually splitting those two fields into separate pages in the coming days; the sign-in process won’t change otherwise.

As we’ve said many times, we're working towards introducing new authentication solutions that complement traditional passwords. We’ve already separated the ‘username’ and ‘password’ fields onto separate pages on a successful launch in Android last year. This change to our web sign-in page is another step in that direction.

To help make sign-in easier and more personal, you may see a screen with your profile picture and full name when signing in to Google. We’ll only show this information if you are signing in from a location or device you’ve signed in from before, like your home computer."

I have no opinions on it. At least, no positive opinions.
Yep. The key is to buy it 6 months ago, and then do everything you can to get others to continue buying in.
Where Do You Live, by Naming a Food?
> I guess the thing here is that if you just replace the bootloader, secure boot should stop the boot process with your unsigned binary. With this exploit, you can replace the logo and it doesn't do the same signature check?

Exactly; most vendors apparently check signatures on anything officially executable but will blindly load any picture you hand them.
It is the old internet.

I bought a kit from them maybe 15 years ago? (So many pots to wire up — I confess it's a kit I never finished ... still in storage though.)
In 5 years having a much more advanced version of this on a Google Glass like device would be amazing.

Real time instructions for any task, learn piano, live cooking instructions, fix your plumbing etc.
Since when does YouTube premium remove sponsored segments? Theres no price you can pay to remove all YouTube ads.
I bet you can get more utility from a $10 coffee if you are making it at home/office. That doesn't mean the price isn't good, I just hate the coffee comparison so much I couldn't resist replying.
> And despite that Firefox remains far and away the best browser experience

In many ways I agree and this is also why I use FF on both Linux as well as Android as my main browser.

As to the problem related to the low market share I suspect you already know the answer, no what-if games needed. Many developers no longer test their creations with Firefox because they deem its market share to be insignificant. I do not know if you were around in the dark days of yore when Internet Explorer was the main development target but that is where we're going. As it stands Blink is a capable and relatively flexible browser engine but that can change, e.g. with the introduction of Manifest 3 and later incarnations.

> Complaining that diversity and inclusion initiatives and other political activism is holding Firefox back when Apple, Google, and Microsoft all do the same and have significantly higher market share and several orders of magnitude more money is silly

It is exactly for this reason that a non-activist project is needed as I also referred to in my initial posting:

Having all major browsers - Chrome, Safari, Edge and Firefox - under the control of that same crowd in one way or another is not conducive to the diversity of opinion on the 'net

and

mindshare [...] is probably fairly easy to get given that there are many who are more than tired of all that identity politicking

> users have overwhelmingly voted that slightly better performance in loading websites is more important than any notion of browsing the web privately and securely

This sets a target for this hypothetical Techiya project: make the thing at least as fast as the competition while remaining at least as secure and privacy-respecting as current FF.
Adware has always been a type of malware, even without polymorphic code or other evasion.
> more customers will pirate media.

This seems improbable. Copying media (I've never hijacked a ship at sea) is a skilled activity. Those not constantly practicing the skill, soon lose it. It's not as if you can just ask somewhere how to do it... never mind the bad advice you'd get ("Just go to this shithole website with 1900 popups, postage-stamp sized streaming, and malware!"), but places like Reddit and other social media shut down any such conversations in a hurry. They're onboard with the status quo.

If someone who understood torrenting stopped 10 years ago, but feels compelled to start today, what can they do? Kickass is dead, Rarbg is dead. EZtv long gone. A half dozen others. Many of the private trackers are gone, but even those that aren't you'll find your accounts all deactivated.

And, the latest generation is just completely clueless when it comes to technology in general. "How can I torrent this, I can only use my phone! Isn't there something that works with my smartphone!?!?!" They don't own the hardware, are unwilling to invest in having it but even more than the money hit of that they're just completely disinterested in it.

The pro-copyright jackoffs might not have won yet, but victory's in sight and they're mostly patient (at least when they're not binging on cocaine).
I wonder if the "release" was done in spite of dev knowledge that it isn't really ready. Like "screw it, we want to attract eyeballs even though we know it's premature"
I think gold is stable, money just lost a lot of value recently.
> Southern Sweden with 80% of the Swedish population

> Stockholm is not in southern sweden

Are you sure this the level of comments you are supposed to post here?
I used it and then immediately stopped using it. The experience is even worse than just copy pasting code into chatgpt on your own.
How does this track with bitcoin prices, out of curiosity? (Full disclosure: I own neither!)
I don't know what motivates him, but his outward behaviour is that of an incredibly insecure individual, who is constantly seeking validation, and often throws a tantrum when subject to criticism.
Why is it a problem that it's a vague term? It's defining a vague clause in the contract. You get certain rights until such time as the company decides you don't get them anymore.
To me it doesn't look impressive at all.

In this video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvGmVmHv69s, Google talked about solving a competitive programming problem using dynamic programming.

But DP is considered only an intermediate level technique in National Olympiad in Informatics/USACO level competitions, which are targeted at secondary school students.

For more advanced contests the tough questions usually require techniques that are much more advanced than DP. Indeed, if you use DP for harder questions you will typically get TLE or out of memory.
> Json is so anemic on types.

So is SQLite3 though.

I do wish that SQLite3 could get a CREATE TYPE command so that one could get a measure of static typing. Under the covers there would still be only the types that SQLite3 has now, so a CREATE TYPE would have to specify which one of those types underlies the user-defined type. I think this should be doable.
The threats are illegal.
> the chinampas were started as floating mats of reeds with enough soil on top to to grow crops. Every year you add a new layer of soil and fertilizer and the island sinks a little more, until eventually it is touching the bottom of the lake several hundred years later.

That description of chinampas is a popular misconception. They're "floating" in the sense that they're in the middle of a lake but there's no way to float any nontrivial amount of soil on top of mats of reeds, there just isn't enough buoyancy and a cubic meter of damp soil weighs over a metric ton.

The reeds were used to create underwater fences that would keep the underwater pile of soil from spilling out into a giant mound, thus allowing the soil to be piled in a vertical pillar that easily reaches above the water. After the chinampa was filled, they planted trees along the corners and edges so that the roots would further hold the chinampa together. They added night soil dredged from the lake on top every year to replenish the nutrients and replace the soil that gets eroded away by the lake but they're filled to the bottom when they're built.
Does anyone have advice for affordable meeting space in SF? I'm leading up the SF chapter of the Solidworks User Group and they give me $300 to spend for each meeting but I'm having trouble finding places I can afford, even the spaces offered by the city at community centers, etc costore than the allotment.
Interesting indeed! My sample definitely skews toward the small company/startup field, although I've worked with some big banks too a those devs were all using IntelliJ.
> I have been on ubuntu for the past year, and hate it.

Just FYI, I use Linux exclusively on my own machines and I hate Ubuntu as well.
It seems to track economic recovery, seeing the historical growth largely coming after major recessions/depressions. Such growth may be the intersection of people starting to be able to invest again, but still having anxiety related to the decline of the business environment they just went through, thus not wanting to invest in businesses.
Other good names
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2023-11-20/live-updates-australi...

PavRover sounds nice. Sheila too.
1979/80 wasn't the end of the inflation. Especially 1979.

But even later... there's a lag time in peoples' minds and, especially, emotions. When inflation has gone up to 10%, it's a huge surprise, but your mind is still back on 6% or 8%. When it comes back down to 10%, your mind is still on the 14% it was, not on the 6% or 8% it's (maybe) headed back to.
It's not just the 'rainbow' initiatives, but the vague way those initiatives are described. Take this for example: "These projects range from creating virtual support networks for LGBTQI+ individuals"

What did they actually do here? Host a mastadon instance for gay people? How many of those people wouldn't have a chatroom with like-minded people if not for Mozilla's efforts? There are countless such spaces on the net already, for instance on traditional social media, on other fediverse instances, on discord or reddit, etc... so how much money did Mozilla spend creating yet another chatroom for LGBTQI+ people and how much real world impact did their effort actually have?

(Aside, saying 'individuals' instead of 'people' exemplifies the sort of swarmy weasel language used by cops, corporate PR, and other snakes putting on airs. Why do they do this, don't they know this kind of language betrays them for what they are? I guess they use this language to impress each other and don't really care that normal people perceive it as inauthentic.)
Usually it’s the other way around. Mass market products have thin margins and are subsidized by high end / B2B products because the customers for those products have infinitely deep pockets.

That's usually what I've seen, but the M1 MacBook Air came out first and the M1 Pro and Max came out much later.
The problem of preventing leaks of forbidden knowledge seems impossible without excluding the forbidden knowledge from the training data. I fail to see how that would be possible without crippling the desirable use cases. Companies need to be honest about this and stop pretending that it is a solvable problem with technical safeguards. Your child safety locks may work for a while, but eventually the child grows up and figures out how to bypass them. Also, sure, you can punish any users who ask about forbidden topics but is that really the kind of society we want to live in?
They can keep releasing these cool tech demos as much as they like. They clearly don't have the confidence to put it into consumers hands.
the gold price serves as an independent yardstick for the level of real inflation. it defeats the purpose to 'adjust for inflation'.

'adjusting for inflation, prices have been remarkably stable for the past century'
The EPA course seems reasonable and informative.

My in-laws discovered mold in their home about four years ago thanks to a tipoff from a psychic. They had their home inspected once, and found nothing. They had their home inspected again and mold was found in their air conditioning system.

Since then, they've had multiple mold remediation companies come in.

* Removal and replacement of several interior walls

* Covering of proximal structural timbers with proprietary anti-mold spray

* several rounds of professional cleaning, with various proprietary blends of magical chemicals

The symptoms my in-laws attribute to mold exposure have not decreased. They've had maybe five or six mold remediation specialists use tools of varying degrees of woo to scan the home. My mother-in-law will set a pan of water overnight in random places and send the water to a lab for testing--no mater where she puts it, it almost always comes back positive (surprise).

I fully believe my inlaws were and are the victim of mold remediation scams. Coupled with their continued reliance on psychics for life advice and their dismissal of mainstream health (they never go to medical doctors) in favor of "functional medicine" and chiropracty, they've dumped nearly 100k of their retirement into trying to solve a problem that we have no direct evidence is the cause of their symptoms.

The story doesn't really have a happy ending. They're living with us as they can't move into other constructions "because of the VOCs" (our home isn't special, they just started living here before they "learned" about VOCs).

I'm not in a position to criticize any particular mold remediation company or technique, I just wanted to share my absurd reality in case it helps anyone else frame what they might be going through themselves. There is a cottage industry of various kinds of remediation scams, and many of them are outright egregious.
This is because their searches are so valuable that real intelligence, i.e. humans, have been fighting to defeat google's AI over billions of dollars of potential revenue.

We are just seeing remnants of that battleground.
I'm fine with licenses too. I just think it should be made more obvious to the user and the price should reflect it's non-perpetual nature.
You are always free to pack up your things and move to another place with better conditions.

I would say it is worse for people in Chicago that work in the big slaughterhouses and even though they can pursue other opportunities, they still choose to work there.

Using the "small town, no options" narrative doesn't really hold water.
46.73p per unit at peak time while the average is roughly equal to the regular tariff? That seems like a bad deal.

Does make it very clear where the afternoon peak is though, and that's a nice dashboard.
It's a BLOB with a binary representation of JSON.
Isn’t this somewhat defeated if the service is large enough?

E.g: if I get a signal notification and the notification has no data except “event happened, call server for updates” - and then you fetch updates as a batch - doesn’t the sheer number of people making that same generic batch update call somewhat mask it?

I’m curious where Apple prohibits dummy notifications, by the way - I used them for a financial app I worked on a few years back and never got dinged for it.
I will only want to use this if i'm able to host the LLM locally.

Currently using CodeGPT and running CodeBooga 34b @ 4bit on my work laptop. This is good enough for me, but i'd love some more advanced functionality, such as code completion.

CodeGPT

- Repo: https://github.com/carlrobertoh/CodeGPT

- Plugin: https://plugins.jetbrains.com/plugin/21056-codegpt
I suppose you want ReactOS https://reactos.org/
Neuralink Barrels into Human Tests Despite Fraud Claims
Just like many others are saying here, and i hope JetBrains hears and sees the feedback- this should 100% be included in the all products pack.

We are already paying for products we don’t use, incentivize us not to downgrade.

An extra subscription on top of gpt-4 is rough.

I’ve been a loyal customer for years and have convinced many others to switch and pay for your products. Now it’s going to effectively double in price.

I’d also take at-cost, where i give you my GPT-4 API key.

cursor.so is getting more and more attractive as an option.
> 5. Crypto has a significant UX/DX problem, that is the root of the struggle.

Agreed. Though I am sure it will be solved in a few years.

> 7. Crypto purism cannot comply with AML/KYC and many other regulations and court decisions. It is at odds with societal expectations.

I am not a crypto purist and yet a believer. So I see a place for Coinbase and Kraken as a legit entry point (and maybe the destination) for a vast majority of honest people who just want to invest in BTC.

> 6. The better than thou attitude is a huge turn off, as demonstrated by your leading rebuttals. If you want to further the conversation, please bring something new to the table.

Maybe you know everything I said. But for every crypto discussion on HN, you can see the same shallow arguments trotted out. So this is the unfortunate tradeoff to preempt those comments.
I have Copilot Chat in IntelliJ IDEA but I haven't really used it yet.
Most likely group, since they info share and this is the standard end-around on laws prohibiting "domestic" surveillance; government has some other country run the surveillance on their nationals.
Note: 2019 post

Can confirm, just feel bad for the author, had he stuck around, with the backloaded vesting in 20 and 21, he'd easily afford the "excessively luxurious building that I could never in my life afford to live in"
Santa Clara County has reimposed the mask mandate in health facilities. Those in power have difficulty relinquishing it.
Thirty years ago, one perceived element of moral superiority in the West was revelations of the extensive internal surveillance in places like East Germany and own-spying. There used to be news items and documentaries mocking this behavior and intimating how backward and uncouth those governments were to stoop to furiously wiretapping irrelevant private conversations.

So, whether the world has changed enough to justify it, people still do care and when adequately informed about some magistrate furiously eavesdropping on private matters, people universally recognize this is antisocial bizarre conduct.
Cross your finger that they let us use the API on the 13th.
That's what I said, without using the word Taylor expansion, as this audience might not necessarily know it. I also explained in points 1 and 2 why many systems have can be modeled via small perturbations (i.e. Taylor approximation) around a stable equilibrium - they need to have low energy.

Also, just a reminder that it is the second-order term in the Taylor expansion that is relevant for harmonic oscillators. Zeroth-order term (constant) does not determine the dynamics. The first-order term (linear) is zero only for low energies, as any potential well at sufficiently low energies will be symmetric. The second-order term (quadratic) is what provides the restoring force towards the equilibrium.
I bet you've committed at least a ticketable offense in the past 48 hours, unless you are a true hermit.

Our laws were not designed for a society with perfect surveillance.
Intel Wins Appeal on VLSI Case, $2.18B Judgement Reversed
I once met a Google PM whose job was to manage “Easter eggs” in the Google home assistant. I wonder how many engineers effectively “hard coded” features into this demo. (“What the quack” seems like one)
I-Regexp: An Interoperable Regular Expression Format, October 2023
That would be fascinating, if true. It requires balancing so many things. We keep mining, so supply is increasing, but so is population and thus demand. We keep making more efficient ways to mine silver which should make it cost more silver, but we are also getting more efficient at herding goats making it cheaper.

It's crazy that many factors could be/stay in balance. It makes me wonder whether those factors are actually separate or whether these factors scale based on some common element like population.
A government can (in some cases) force a company to collect information they otherwise wouldn't have. The reverse is not true. So I do think the bigger danger here is the legal framework that not only permits this but keeps it secret, rather than the mere fact of information collection.