skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Turns out the only interesting thing is how sloppy my reading is (and how quick I am to blame others for that sloppiness…).

I simply missed the second “each” below:

> Should space-time be shown to be quantum, the loser will give to each of the winners, one ITEM of their choice. If the alternative hypothesis is deemed to be correct, the losers will each give 5,000 ITEMS to the winner.
I think since the paper is littered with the term "toxic", it clearly has its own point of view — that is, not as objective as one would like in this kind of study.
There is no standard that you can use instead of a set of browsers. There is no way of making sure that a website works with a browser other then testing it with that browser. The reason people test with different browsers is not that they want to use non-standard features, it's that even standard features often do not work in certain browsers.
How can somebody even attempt to find faults like these without being a magician? Are people reading tons of assembly code in the process?
I have a question For people in the field!

Would GPT only with pretraining and no fine tuning be able to behave better when prompt is "let’s think step by step"?

Or this prompt only worked because a fine tuning dataset containing many "let’s think step by step" prompt was used?
The world is such a small place--I open HN and read a movie-grade story about trains that I took many times. In fact, it's even possible I was going by one of those grounded trains..

In any case, either there was no code review, or the reviewers accepted that for one reason or another. Not sure which case is more scary..
“Far better driving dynamics than gas cars”? No way. Go throw a BMW 3-series around some corners and compare to the Model 3 - you will feel the weight of the batteries. I would have said compare to a Porsche but that’s a different price range.

Note: I’m a big fan of EVs. I’m just saying that handling is one of their weaknesses until battery density gets a lot better.
> "Heck, jaywalking tickets given out as though by speed camera."

This has been a thing since 2017: https://futurism.com/facial-recognition-china-social-credit

- "Since April 2017, this city in China's Guangdong province has deployed a rather intense technique to deter jaywalking. Anyone who crosses against the light will find their face, name, and part of their government ID number displayed on a large LED screen above the intersection, thanks to facial recognition devices all over the city."

- "If that feels invasive, you don't even know the half of it. Now, Motherboard reports that a Chinese artificial intelligence company is partnering the system with mobile carriers, so that offenders receive a text message with a fine as soon as they are caught."
Apple is adopting RCS, and no, that won't solve the green/blue bubble issue. They'll still distinguish RCS and SMS from iMessage.

iMessage is Apple's value-add and has its own app ecosystem, apparently/allegedly true E2E.

*> Personally if it's a business / marketing advantage unless their hand is forced for business reasons they should never change it.*

Yep, that is Apple's intent, according to Apple emails leaked from various court cases.
Personally I wonder if Google's recent decisions kicking their war on adblocking into high gear could result in increased Firefox usage.
Is it surprising that Adobe has sign.ing ?
So my question is who writes this code for them?

Like I'm way more fascinated by the corporate structure - presumably it's not someone working at Pepsi that comes up with this. So did some third party build it then pitch Pepsi's marketing?

How did this come about?
Show HN: Desert Atlas, a self-hosted OpenStreetMap app for Sandstorm
Hi all,

This project release is a long time coming. It was a big uphill battle, and by far my largest endeavor so far. I built it for Sandstorm because I believe in Sandstorm's model, and I wanted to show that there's still life and potential in it. If you're inspired, joining our OpenCollective would be really helpful: https://opencollective.com/sandstormcommunity (keeping in mind that Sandstorm has now moved from its original leadership to a community project https://sandstorm.org/news/2023-11-03-from-io-to-org).

You can also join our mailing list or connect on the fediverse: https://sandstorm.org/community (The IRC link is outdated, we've effectively moved to Matrix for now due to the libera.chat split: https://matrix.to/#/#sandstorm:libera.chat)

Also: I'm open for hire! You can see some of my skills in putting things together in this blog post. I'd love to work in something FOSS or OSM related, but not a requirement. I mostly do Python and Golang, with a bit of Haskell under my belt. Other projects and resume here: https://github.com/orblivion/me
I just downloaded it, and can't get past the landing/sign-in page: "Google sign in error.null"

Unfortunately, signing in with Google is the only option.
Very weird

If you mean that on mobile the right (stupid) sidebar covers half the page, it has an apparently invisible close button on its upper right
It doesn't do with this post. It has to do with pebble. They overproduced and were too carried away with efficient over production and (probably) had warehouses full of pebbles. For years after you could get a new in box one for $40 or $99 at retail when it was supposed to be $200 or so.
jjtech covered this in pypush: hhttps://github.com/JJTech0130/pypush#dataplist-and-mac-seria...
Oh, thank you, I'll buy a copy! I thought Arrival was a fun movie
It's opt-in but hey, you're missing out if not enabling it!
By "developers" you mean the core CPython developers here?

Because CPython itself is very slow, Java runs circles around it on most benchmarks you'll find such as this one[1] from Debian. If you observe the computation time taken, the order of magnitude of difference between Java and Python programs is just preposterous!

[1]: https://benchmarksgame-team.pages.debian.net/benchmarksgame/...
I was just copying what someone else said in this thread. It might actually be network.stricttransportsecurity.preloadlist but I have not tried it.
Blazingly fast too!
TY, will read! I touched on this duality in the article actually :)
i assume instead of google outright purchasing the company due to monopoly issues and internet outrage, they instead are just doing what they are doing now. thought i read they are up to 90% funded by google.. so its a little silly how these browser warriors champion their precious firefox or whatever other browser and condemn the evil chrome. but if you think about it they are all basically chrome developers. building ontop of chromium or working on firefox where those devs and chromes collab.

but in my opinion that isnt the reason google keeps firefox funded. i just think they do it for goodness sakes and not to cannibalize the only "competition". it really wasnt too long ago when it was chrome and firefox the two sleek awesome browsers saving the internet from nasty slow internet explorer.
Probably a case of sociopaths going to sociopath. They don't really care about children or the damage they are doing. They just want to make the right sounding mouth-noises to advance and playing Handicapper General in the name of equality. We saw same sort of vile behavior before with "anti-sex trafficking". We really ought to be throwing these people into woodchippers instead of into power.
Most psychologists would be much more interested in person X's behavior, rather than their brain.
“Enhanced Tracking Protection” is a poor name: it’s not just one thing, but has two modes: Standard and Strict. (There’s also Custom, which lets you go somewhere between the two, or restrict cookies even more tightly.)

The default is Standard. It doesn’t block GA. The cynic in me suggests they decided making Firefox disappear altogether from popular stats by default would have harmed them more than not doing it harms their users, or that the backlash would be too great for their liking.

Sources like Google Analytics and Statcounter are still chronically undercounting minority browsers and platforms, which are much more likely to block these sorts of things, and Firefox and Linux will be particularly heavily hit, but I’m sure the difference it makes isn’t as large as I’d like it to be.
Cherry Hill, Southern New Jersey (Almost Philadelphia), USA

Pros: Weather is not too extreme compared to some other parts of the country. Summer gets hot but not Florida hot. Winter gets cold but not North Dakota cold. Risk of hurricanes/tornadoes is low (yes we did have Hurricane Sandy in NJ). Southern part of NJ is usually nicer in terms of greenery, infrastructure compared to North NJ. Proximity to NY, DC. Amazing food options and very diverse communities bringing all types of people together. We have the best Pizza (yes better than NY I would say). Great Schools. An average NJ school is better than a good school in FL for example. Good healthcare options (access wise). We also have great beaches, mountains, rivers and what not. Full package.

Cons: Property taxes is killer. We are like Top 3 in the nation. Generally high cost of living. Not great for retirees. Thats why older people usually move out of NJ if they can. Very car dependent (but thats most of USA suburbs anway).
The real crime is not using a standard date time library and a simple > 2021-11-21
Well based on a true story has no real percentage of trueness. Cocaine Bear is based on a true story. It might be more correct to say inspired by a true story but it is based on a true story.

Based on a true story just means someone somewhere said something like this happened. Bloodsport is a great example of a movie that is based on a true story but that true story turned out to be entirely false.
Looks good, I've added it to gipeties:

https://gipeties.com/s/g-e7a7lbzlq-chatgpt-co-founder-fit

If you'd like to create a screencast of it in use or some extra content I'd be happy to feature that.
Fixing the unfriendly perception is why stack overflow is dead. Signal to noise for professionals is now close to zero. Maybe it's friendlier, but it's also no longer worth visiting other than the historical record.
The average people don't buy BMW or Tesla, they buy Honda CR-V. And they'll appreciate 500mi range far more than being able to take turns fast
A CEO making almost 5% of the company's profit is absolutely massive for a company that size.
Very interesting reference, there is a whole field about Uncertainty modelling.
Various contract provisions are illegal in Poland as well, for example a contract can't prevent you from disassembling and reverse engineering any software or hardware, including building a compatible device so long as you do not literally copy the results over.

In this case, NEWAG violated contract, because they did NOT win the bid to do servicing, and didn't write anything down about being the only party able to service the machines.
> In yet another global first, China has become the world's first nation to deploy a commercial data center underwater, China Daily reported.

That's a bit of a misleading hook. China may be the first nation to deploy this, but companies like Microsoft had been toying with the idea for years: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-54146718

I thought it all sounded familiar...
> I’m not sure how we push back against authoritarianism?

This is one of the reasons why the 2nd Amendment is a good thing. However in the UK they lost track of why a population needs to be able to defend itself when a tyrannical regime tries to take over…
I already had a significant respect for Beeper (Cloud) as a technical product. The backend being Matrix with open source bridges was a great choice.

This write up adds so much more to that respect. It would have been easy to botch this, it would have been easy to do a worse implementation that would have caused problems for users whether they cared or not, but Beeper seemingly took the time to get right.

Congrats to Eric and the team on the launch!
An interesting study might be comparing the quality of answers between promising a tip for a good answer VS letting ChatGPT it can take its time to increase accuracy.

My greater point is that it's an emergent property that ChatGPT will give better or worse answers depending on if it "believes" it will get a reward for it. Humans are the same way, and humans will often ignore their morals to make more money.

There are no morals in ChatGPT for it to ignore and it seems like a philosophical issue worth discussing. A future AI is told if it nukes a place it will get a piece of candy so it says "OK!" is an example of how it could escalate.
Having worked at famously data driven Meta and Google, this is 100% accurate.

You can turbo boost your career by mastering the art of “data ritual”. It doesn’t matter what the results are or magnitude of impact or what it cost to build and launch something. Show your results in a pretty way that looks like you did your diligence and you will be celebrated.
“…she had an interview at Mozilla Corp. in 2021, which left her with the impression that she was the company’s first choice for a job.”

I’d be richer than Bezos if I could successfully sue all my interviewers who gave this impression.
> wrong opinion

That phrase is doing a lot of work.
>> That's just your phone.

That is how most people will interface with their "personal assistant bot".

Don't be surprised if it listens to all your phone conversations, reads all your text messages and email, and curates all your contacts in order to "better help you".

When you login to your $LARGE_CORPORATION account on your laptop or desktop computer, the same bot(s) will be there to "help" and collect data in a similar manner.
> The modern farm, even small family farms, relies on capital to do the work.

All businesses rely on the application of labor to capital; if that labor is largely that of the owners, the owners are petit bourgeois, if it is predominantly rented labor of the proletariat, the owners are haut bourgeois. (In the simple case where the owners derive their support exclusively from that property.)

> If management is considered labour then there is no such thing as upper-class.

Management is labor, but that fact does not mean that there aren't a distinct class of people who, while they may incidentally do some labor in the marketplace, relate to the economy and derive support within it primarily through the returns of capital whose value is realized primarily by renting labor from the proletariat.
all this looks like points for open source. You can’t exactly stop someone from putting an open source OS on their hardware, and if the train software was open-source, then this “clawback code” nonsense would have been impossible to keep secret.

and you’re right, OS/2 Warp WAS a great OS. As soon as it started losing market viability, it should have gone open source as a defensive self-preservation tactic.

When LLaMa was released for free, it basically guaranteed it would never die a corporate death
I trust them to opt me out, not at all. It's safer to just assume your data is being used, regardless, because it's free money to them. If/when they get caught selling data marked as Opted Out, they'll get a pittance fine, paid with other people's money and bonuses for making numbers that quarter.

You're welcome to trust them, but no I.
Sorry but no. Live here and eat pierogi few times a week. Still calling them ruskie, and people are just as indifferent to that name as they have always been.

The subject has popped up here and there. But more as a whimsical joke amongst people around me with more of an intelligentsia background.

There are however, many new places with Ukrainian pelmieni opening up everywhere you look. But that’s a separate thing.
More interesting would be if you told us why you think that is.
Yes, people that believe that Google will forever own the web are the same people that used to believe that Microsoft would forever own it. MS got arrogant and lost. Google looks like they are repeating that mistake.

A few things that could go against this:

- If enough people use Firefox, no commercial business in their right mind will tell these people to "please leave, we don't serve your kind". Seems to be true for obscure versions of internet explorer still in use. Definitely true for Firefox for some time to come.

- Legislation might force the market to open up on mobile. Right now Apple is blocking the Chrome and Firefox rendering engines (well they allow similarly named shells around safari). And Google of course "owns" the search and browsing experience on Android by default and twists every OEM into signing a restrictive licensing deal. At least you can install firefox on Android. There are some signs this might start changing. A lot of outrage around privacy and ad blockers might speed this up.

- People can still vote with their feet. If you watch Youtube on a laptop and you don't have an effective ad blocker, Firefox is blocking them very nicely. I watch a lot of youtube and 100% ad free, just saying.
> their local public schools decided to keep everyone at the same math level and their children are bored out of their minds.

What is the thinking behind this? Is this similar to what was happening in the Bay Area where people took issue with some racial group not being perfectly represented in advanced classes so they scrapped them altogether?
I am a professional software developer. Half of my team use Emacs to write Go. Our workflow integrates perfectly well with the non-Emacs-users: we commit our code, push it &c. It’s an editor like any other (just IMNSHO better).

I really appreciate Emacs. It’s been wonderful investing in my editor, rather than chasing trends. I’m at a point now in my career where having to use an editor other than Emacs (much like having to use an OS other than Linux or a BSD) would be grounds to refuse an offer or leave a firm.

At this point, to a certain degree Emacs is my OS. I don’t want to imagine using a computer without it.
Reminds me of how some SSDs do wear levelling, where they treat cells like they're one bit while the drive's empty and go up to four bits per cell as it fills up, with a speed penalty.
I would name Seiko Data-2000 the original, some 28 years earlier. Even if you'd like something more modern-looking the list still has IBM Linux Watch and Samsung SPH-WP10 and others before.
Amazon would benefit from future citizens that can walk without wobbling.
Maybe “I am friends with the Law and Justice party”?
StackOverflow is a great resource if you want to know how you would have done some programming task in 2009. Their cultural aversion to new/updated content has frozen them in time.
From their blogpost: https://blog.beeper.com/p/beeper-cloud-and-product-roadmap

> Everything changed in August when a security researcher reverse engineered the iMessage protocol.

> At a high level, here’s our product plan for the near future (in very rough order, and very subject to change):
> Add support for SMS, WhatsApp and Signal into Beeper Mini, using the same end-to-end encrypted client-side connection architecture. No cloud servers in the middle.

so they are changing their whole business model to rely on illegal proceedings, breaking the ToS of every service they want to provide an alternative for.

I'm pretty sure Apple isn't fond of random people using their servers and their proprietary protocol on a client they haven't created. Signal is the same, they C&D every fork that becomes popular, the only official clients are the CLI and the ones they release (Signal is open source though). WhatsApp is also similar.

It's interesting and disappointing to see that they are hoping to create a business model on top of that, and it will probably backfire and hurt Matrix users as well, because these chat companies will become stricter and completely forbid third-party clients.
You don't deserve goods or services. You pay for them, or others pay for them if you live in a welfare state and you don't work. Either way, the doctor needs the money to buy food.
Our approach to building security tooling
"And in an attempt to reduce the level of public funds being spent on publication costs, assessors will take into account papers published on noncommercial, open-access publishing platforms that don’t charge author fees, such as Open Research Europe."

This.
Isn't the greentext in direct response to that patent?
I think it's calling a server generating validation data (probably with a pre-set hardware informations to be able to run it on a Linux machine which is cheaper, with emulation as pypush does it or by directly loading the macOS executable in the memory and run the right code snippets there).
Next would be to use/create devices that are using Radio for Communication and payments, devices like Satslink as an example. It drives innovation at the same time, so I wouldn't be too concerned.
Microsoft Outlook Blocking All Email from Tutanota.com as Spam
Five years late.
How is this different than Brilliant?
That's amazing!, Please try out the Jupyter demos :)
Registering batteries has been a thing for BMWs for at least a decade. The dance around keeping windows open etc is a little more annoying, but nothing out of the ordinary.
> The only innovation here is to combine the various pieces into one package.

Isn't this how any and all innovations work? (At least in the consumer product area)
10 years of FAIR: Decade of advancing the through open research
Right? Light switches work when the microwave is on, when the light is a long way from the switch, or whatever inevitable gremlins find their way in. When you're talking about something that needs to just work Keep It Simple, Stupid!

A few bucks in house wiring is nothing over the lifetime of the structure. Do it right.
It's both. Technology really does make a difference. Its existence has effects.
These new tlds are a racket.

If you can, get access to czds.icann.org and look over the zone files for .ing and .meme.

No one is registering domains for anything other than trademark protection and speculative squatting.

A lot of money spent for nothing.
On an open source architecture, many eyes hypothetically leave few places for malicious action to hide. This is not always 100% foolproof, but it seems to work out pretty well most of the time.

On a closed source architecture, this sort of thing is generally safeguarded by contract and law. Company can get away with it once, but if the law and contracts were properly crafted there will be fines and jail time that discourages them from doing it again.
This doesn't add up. At best your overall freedom remains the same. You gain quiet, you lose the freedom to make noise yourself. Seems like a net-negative to me.

Consider how little freedom you would have if laws were enforced to the lowest common denominator of what people find acceptable.
Is this some sort of new mobile Adium?
> well-meaning but clueless activists

Lets call a spade a shovel here - there is nothing well meaning about not teaching maths to children.
Just looking at the cockpit at almost all modern cars, the Tesla models especially, the are toys indeed. It's all buttons on a huge display, none of the comfort that a muscle memory offers when you want to adjust the AC a bit or flip the recycle air switch or use the built-in lighter.
It doesn't help that they want to pursue the exact same approach for the other apps they want to provide service for.

They are looking to get banned and completely damage the Matrix/Mautrix bridge ecosystem.
Because I put it a 9$ burrito in the cart and somehow at checkout the price ends up being 25$ before tip. The only way I use those apps is if I have really good incentives/discounts…so maybe I am not the target market, happy to eat in or not order at all. I have not had any problems with the delivery people, they are always super nice.
Seconding that... Ted Chiang is one of my favorite authors! His short stories are a really fun mix of technology/sociology/religion/history, and each one only takes like half an hour to read.
You forgot the biggest cons. Cost of Real estate in Mumbai.
Private property? Nah, nothing better about that.