skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I use a re-usable K cup. Its still very convenient. I grab a clean one, add grounds, install in the machine and get my coffee. When I get multiple coffees in a day, I just dump and re-use the same K-cup. Its still really convenient.
SwiftUI Apps at Scale
> Chromebooks are quite robust against remote attacks, and they're fairly robust against local physical attacks, but "Put an external interface on the NOR SPI flash and put whatever you want there" defeats just about everything they do with secure boot, because you can put your own code there instead

This hasn't been true for a decade or more. Boot ROMs are validated by on-chip firmware in the modern world (not just on Chromebooks, everywhere). You can flash the chip with your JTAG gadget, sure, but if doesn't have a signature that works it won't do anything but brick your board.

No, the obvious holes have long since been plugged. The design is secure. The implementation may have holes, but on the whole you can't break into an arbitrary box. You need to get lucky with a crack like the one in the linked article.
That's Bing Copilot and it's still not that impressive, it's just search engine with Clippy then.

Google can't change for now, in doing so they undermine all the AdWords accounts, the real customers to Google, paying six figures to stay on top of SERPs.

But the other competitors can and will.

So it goes
The leads tend to break inside the pencil with random cheap stuff
A sole vendor who is not trustworthy is not a source of trust. Microsoft has done little to earn trust other than to make money from users.
>Organizations should absolutely have avoided funding events in the US while we had a Muslim ban.

But did they actually do so? If not, it seems a little suspicious that the standard may have changed now that the event is in Africa? Perhaps holding everyone to the same standards means staying consistent with the previous precedent, that a few unjust laws shouldn't cause you to abandon an entire country?
Ask HN: What were the top AI product launches of 2023?
Wondering if we can create a list of the AI products (including wrapper products) that "won" this year, perhaps excluding ChatGPT, just to avoid the obvious.

What do I mean by "won"? I guess I mean the products you kept hearing about and seeing discussed everywhere, and that have actually become useful and have survived beyond the launch.
It's been a long time so I can't give you specific examples. I'll take another stab at Nim and see if I feel the same way.
More likely to be distinguishing 2D from 3D graphics, and just saying "image" can be ambiguous when firmware images are in play.
What is "questionable" about what Catholics push. I'm a western degenerate basically, but even I understand why they say what they say.

For example, while I might enjoy casual sex, I get that if I followed what's best for me, I really would abstain from having sex outside of marriage. And even in marriage, sex would hold more meaning and be even more bonding if there was a chance of a child being born. If that means I'd have a lot less sex, so be it, I still think that would be best.

I could explain lgbt issues also from their angle, but that would just upset HN. What you call questionable, is just as questionable from their side towards your views.

What do you think is more questionable.. waiting til you find someone very important to you, who promises to join you for life, before you have sex... Or a sorority girl having sex with two dudes at the same time at 19 yrs old because one made her laugh a lot and his roommate is really good looking. (I was the funny one in this story 20 years ago)
> […] they have 4 lines of code in Wing, but the long Pulumi example sets up permissions. So how did the permissions get set up in Wing?

As it says on the page: "Wing allows developers to write very few lines of code and let the compiler take care of IAM policies and other cloud mechanics."

Basically it auto-generates least-privilege IAM policies.
I can attest to the challenges of the section on Dynamic analysis on real hardware and the struggles of attenuating signal interference on the ESP.

Anyone have a recommendation on conducting fabric for RF isolation as briefly mentioned in the article or resources on the subject of rf isolation/Faraday cages for microcontrollers?
I did some research recently on K-cups vs Nespresso pods. One thing I found was that none of the official Keurig machines heat water to the optimal temperature for brewing coffee (around 195-205 F).

There are a few third party brewers that will hit that level, but I’m very curious why Keurig itself doesn’t offer one. Maybe safety/liability?

Also, whereas every Nespresso machine brews the pods basically the same, the Keurig machines vary widely in terms of brewing temperature, so you have to be careful which one you buy.

Honestly, I started biased towards Keurig but came away with the conclusion that, if you really want capsule coffee, the only reasonable choice is Nespresso. The original Nespresso pods are an open ecosystem with third party pods so that would be my recommendation.
Also, those coffee pods are expensive.
There are certainly at least a dozen ChatGPT wrappers/prompts/GPTs attempting to fill this gap, right? I'm not being totally cynically, I think a well-tuned AI therapist could play a role.
I'm hoping for the same thing, but with Intel ARC.
Intel gpus are cheaper, but have even worse ML software for consumer projects
FAQ says the pilot started "in Northern Virginia in February 2020". Has there been an update?
Interesting that this is on the front page(ish) at the same time as SQLite’s JSONB announcement.
> This one always cracks me up.

It doesn't crack me up.

Our funding for fusion has always been below the "fusion never" line on the graph.
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/FWQaKc8XEAAAVmZ.jpg:large

If only we had as much funding for fusion as we do for Skinner boxes ...
DampRid makes good product to supplement your dehumidifiers - https://damprid.com/
The town I went to school in was the site of a chemical weapons depot. There was a chemical weapons incinerator there dealing with the surplus which could not be stored indefinitely. Every school public building had to have enough pressurized rooms for occupancy, and we had special sirens for "there's been a nerve gas leak" and "there's been a mustard gas leak".

It was, in retrospect, a horrifying way to grow up. Anyway, the nerve agent they were disposing of was VX.
This is an incredibly weird comparison. Chimps are wild animals. Dogs are fully domesticated animals. Almost half of households in the US have a dog. If packs of wild dogs roamed around occasionally eviscerating children you can bet people would shoot them too.
We need competition in the ai gpu space.
Do you have evidence of that? Photoshop has blocked you from editing pictures of money for ages and that wasn't in the cloud. Moreover, how does a Google data center know whether you're allowed to swap a particular face versus your device? It's quite a reach to assume Google would go out of their way to prevent you from doing things on your device in their app when other AI-powered apps on your device already exist and don't have such policy restrictions.
I'm sure he regrets it even further now! I can only imagine the mountains of pollution.
Sightseeing feels also different, in a better way, when cycling or walking than when using a car.
>I don't understand why it should be the one or the other.

In theory, it doesn't have to be. In practice, one cannibalizes the other. I don't necessarily blame Twitter, but Twitter isn't incentivized to let people know that they can grab their feed from outside the app/website. There inlies the issue.

RSS can definitely work alongside centralized microblogging platforms. You can (or used to) grab an RSS feed for a specific subreddit, and you can unofficially generate RSS feeds from twitter in several ways[0]

>Also, these are 2 totally different mediums with 2 different types of content, and 2 different publisher/reader dynamics

The idea isn't to end microblogging. It's that you don't put all your eggs in one basket and end up confused on where to go when that basket is suddenly full of nazis. Some may simply wander around until the next big basket pops up, but it should always be emphasized that it's easier than ever to whip up your own platform.

But as we've seen the biggest issue of a new platform is discoverability. In theory, an RSS Feed + some curation for feeds to subscribe to solves this.

0: https://rss.app/rss-feed/create-twitter-rss-feed
That exists, it's called social media. Just publicly post "I suffer from x" and you'll summon a baker's dozen experts to tell you "it's not x, it's y" in no time.
I for one don’t. I appreciate the incredible amount of effort the developers put into it, but I really dislike the basic affordances as prescribed by Material Design and end up customizing it a lot… and it clearly show its limits the
Ok, they improved svgs through code a lot. I had hilarious conversations full of apologizing for drawing a square or ellipse for anything I asked, like a flower, sun, cat and etc. It was always super confident it did a great job, describing the extra features it added, like petals and detailed leaves. That turned out to be dots completely in all the wrong places.
LLMs don't lie, they are instead ALWAYS hallucinating. Sometimes those hallucinations will coincidentally match a fact from training data, but a LLM has no concept of truth. They are far more reliable when you restrict them to transforming information than when you allow them the latitude to generate it.
It's been a hot minute since I last looked at the most recent list, but the short of it is that the WMF likes to release extensions onto Wikipedias that ship with a ton of technical bugs, aren't tested beforehand by the Wikipedia community for usability (which is ironic given the WMFs obsession with making tools as accessible as possible) and when the complaints get leveled, the response from the WMF basically ends up being "yeah so there's no budget for that". Rinse and repeat for a ton of tiny technical issues that affect all their extensions on the regular. It's a bit odd to be putting so many engineers and money onto lofty projects when the maintenance of Wikimedia extensions is in such an extremely precarious state already.

The most evergreen example of this is and probably always will be the rollout of VisualEditor, their WYSIWG editor. It was completely unwanted, was proven to be not ready for general use (due to all the problems that plague "combining a WYSIWG editor with a code view"), yet forcibly deployed on all Wikipedia languages without much room for warning or feedback. After that, the WMF promised communities the option to opt-out if they didn't want it... before violating it on the German Wikipedia because they voted to not roll it out. To my knowledge, VisualEditor hasn't improved over the years (beyond "rewrite Parsoid into PHP"), but editors have just gritted their teeth. That's the extreme example, but the WMFs relationship with building features for Wikipedia is... pretty much in a vacuum from what users want. A lot of their projects seem to be conceived by WMF managers first, without consultation to their existing community of volunteers.

Which is I guess fine for moonshot projects like Wikifunctions (since they don't involve the volunteers before release) but results in a lot of friction when a managers pet project is forcibly rolled out on all language Wikipedias. Very few of their big extension deployments have gone smoothly with the community. I distinctly remember the Minerva skin (mobile Wikipedia) needing tons of changes and improvements before it was usable as well, after it was already rolled out and caused a ton of negative fedback.
I got approved for the beta yesterday. So far I’m impressed with Copilot Chat in Webstorm but I’ve yet to use it with a complex project.
I’m guessing a lot of pro office people optimized their life more for a short commute. I’ve stubbornly always been at most a 10 minute drive away and it was never that annoying to go in (open offices aside).
Even if they aren't, there's a separate concern that we're past the inflection point of Goodhart's Law and this blind focus on a handful of tests evaluating a small scope of capabilities is going to be leading to model regression in areas that aren't being evaluated or measured as a target.

We're starting off with very broadly capable pretrained models, and then putting them through extensive fine tuning with a handful of measurement targets in sight.

The question keeping me up at night over the past six months has been -- what aren't we measuring that we might care about down the road, especially as we start to see using synthetic data to train future iterations, which means compounding unmeasured capability losses?

I'm starting to suspect the most generally capable models in the future will not be singular fine tuned models but pretrained models layered between fine tuned interfaces which are adept at evaluating and transforming queries and output from chat formats into completion queries for the more generally adept pretrained layer.
Nowadays many countries look at the passport, but don't physically stamp it. They keep their own electronic record, and don't put it where other countries can see it.
How many tokamaks were powering up 25 years ago? All these sought after transformative technologies hover on the horizon, until they don't.
'Equal Opportunity Employer' and 'male candidates only' in IT job post
The pulled every single job post I can find as I'm sure someone realized this was illegal. No surprise they are a 'blockchain' 'web3' 'AI' company that lists 3M, Hershey's, Budweiser, and Nascar as customers.
Offering a few suggestions to get started (No affiliations with any)
- Pika - Seen a lot of buzz on this last week
- Dot - lots of buzz a short while ago
- Airgram - This has become the tool I use the most, along with:
- Claude by Anthropic and
- Notion AI (appreciate having it built into where I'm already working
- Consensus - awesome use case for Gen AI.
I think they mean this from yesterday https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38530207
So we can SETI@Home or Folding@Home for large language models, now? Not sure how small the minimum size of the compute cluster can be. If it's still out of consumer reach then this would either be just an intermediate research step, or a way for small-er (but still professional/well-resourced) labs to collaborate together. I'm not sure the latter would be helpful, as if they wanted to collaborate together they could probably already do that by pooling resources for a large cloud compute run.
My wife runs a website like this on one of the Japanese somewhat social media sites. I say somewhat because it doesn't look much like what we think of as social media.

It's fascinating because she can see who drops by to read her stuff, and she has a significant number of followers, but it's very passive. No comments, no likes, no interaction at all. The only way people can show their support is by subscribing, and even then that's only shown to the admin.
I dove pretty deeply into wood case pencils for a few years (then I got tired of carrying around a good sharpener). Musgrave [https://musgravepencil.com/collections/the-heritage-collecti...] makes some good pencils, though some folks don't like the pronounced hex shape. Mitsu-bishi and Tombow produce some very nice, affordable pencils, though they can be hard to find at times. Everyone knows about Blackwings, but they were never my cup of tea -- the pencil is longer than the average wood case, and the eraser, for as nifty as it is, isn't that great.

Though I use pencils less these days, my current favorites are the Tombow 2558 in 2B and the Musgrave Greenbelt.
It needs a plugin, but I see no custom syntax, it’s just JS?
Google isn’t, to all outward appearances, trying to do search well, though. I mean, you can want them to deal with SEO better/differently, but it’s clear the goal is to drive advertising and to do whatever it can to serve you more ads. We need more neeva/Kagi search tools, if we want companies incented to get away from blogspam/SEO.
Productivity enhancements increases employment. Saying they'd decrease them goes against all empirical evidence.

You might as well be worried the invention of the C compiler hurt jobs for assembly programmers.
I'm kind of disappointed. Based on the name, I thought it's a searchable collection of functions, a mixture of OEIS, searchonmath, and a classic formula encyclopedia. But it seems to be only about little algorithmic snippets without explanation or definition?
Very cool. I can’t wait to try this myself.
*K-Cup creator John Sylvan regrets inventing Keurig coffee pod system* https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18718039 (December 19, 2018 — 243 points, 339 comments)*
As part of the NLNet grant, I will build an affordable Faraday cage; I'll post the BOM, assembly process and a test report in a separate blog post.
How do you expect the ecosystem to look in 20 years? You're simply not thinking far enough ahead.

"it's only a few right now don't worry about it" More happen. "okay maybe I see where you're coming from but it's still avoidable!" It continues. "I still have options I don't know what your problem is." Eventually, no choice. "How did we get here!?!?!"

We need protective regulations that ensure that general computing is accessible to every citizen. Giants of industry are not entitled to control devices that they sell after they are sold.
> Yet another Wikimedia project with way too lofty ambitions...

Perhaps, but so what. Wikidata was "a project with way too lofty ambitions" back when it started (a.k.a. make the Semantic Web something that actually works in a useful way) and it's been wildly successful. It now gets more edits per minute than the most popular Wikipedia and gets used all over the place by Big Tech firms.
FTA: "But there’s also a clear pattern, if you look at his behavior, of really seeking power in an extreme way.”

This is not the type of person we want in charge of potentially world changing AI.
Growing is not much of a choice at young age.
That's just plain wrong. The model was created to avoid legislation and existed before any later legislation was written around it
There are so many new consumer products that it is hard to see how this would not grind the official economy to a halt due to scaling issues and create a grey/black market of unapproved goods. Drug approvals are rare and expensive.

Where do you draw the line? Is the little old lady at the flea market selling tchotchkes supposed to be subject to this? The small business owner doing imports for an immigrant community? Etc.
Like many Olympic sports, I would assume there would be multiple categories:

1. Weight participants, feed them equally. Whomever has the shortest time time from start to end of defecation wins.
2. Highest weight of of single, uninterrupted mass.
3. Best form.
...but what if the "must be a specific sized BMP file" rule is because if you were to flash the eprom with, say, a PNG file it meant you suddenly got root over Intel's Management Engine in your CPU?
There's an interesting design called WHAM being pursued.

https://wippl.wisc.edu/wisconsin-hts-axisymmetric-mirror/

https://arpa-e.energy.gov/sites/default/files/2020-09/Day1_1...

There's been advancements that promise to nix various instabilies and loss modes that had stymied previous work.

https://plasma.physics.swarthmore.edu/brownpapers/WHAMmirror...
There is a government restriction on plastic waste and it's passed onto consumers - it's the cost of garbage disposal.

The secret is that the cost of disposing of plastics into landfills is really, really cheap. Cheaper even than producing them. So the cost is pretty miniscule.

I'm all for taxing externalities and making consumers pay for their environmental damage, but there's not a strong case that plastics properly disposed of have a huge environmental impact.
The options are:
- be pretty
- have fine motor skills
- have wealthy parents
No, there was controversy over mistreated patients in a number of asylums.

There were campaigns to close the asylums based on this, but no real plan for what to replace them with.
Disabling Secure Boot is not the same as enabling CSM (non-UEFI boot). You can disable Secure Boot while still booting via UEFI without CSM, and that shouldn't affect your graphics at all.
John Carmack suggests using something even more basic than RLE: "Media file parsing has been behind so many security issues. In many cases today, using completely raw data is very practical. No DCT. No ADPCM. No RLE. Just raw pixels/samples. There should be a widely agreed on header for modern raw data that is just a non-extendable struct."

https://twitter.com/ID_AA_Carmack/status/1732519369362596262
None of this will happen because jobs are based on comparative advantage, and not absolute advantage, which means it doesn't matter if someone else would be better at your job than you are. Because that person (or AI) is doing the job they're best suited to, which is not yours. Other fun second-order effects include Jevon's paradox (which is why inventing ATMs caused more employment for bank tellers, not less.)

I can be very confident about this because it's just about the strongest finding there is in economics. If this wasn't true, it'd be good for your career to stop other people from having children in case they take your job.
> But its an exercise in masochistic self flagellation to be a tech nerd with no interest in linux (learning OS structure and CLI syntax)

Somewhat true. But ... it's also true for Windows. Did you see the post above? https://github.com/GoofGarage/Win11Clean. It's a very long list of instructions just to get the think installed in a way that keeps most of Microsoft's fingers out of your pockets and while keeping the familiar Windows interface. But if you follow it you will have a non-standard install, and later some overnight upgrade will break it.
I don't think AIs are particularly good at applying paint to a canvas using a brush. Maybe the word you were looking for was "printer"?
So, are video-files of 2D images technically 3D then?

and time-based volumetric recording of 3D video-games are 4D?
Ooh, the Mandela effect strikes again! I swear I've seen the video of him saying it, but can only find Daffy.
But if you have fire insurance on your house, the odds are very good that your coverage will be void if you have non-certified things installed or plugged in.

Many homeowners have discovered this the hard way, and their coverage was denied even if the fire wasn't caused by that equipment. Just having it installed is enough.
I'd highly recommend reading Flatland. Not only because you had to ask this, but because it's a fun (and short) read.
What's up with 2131953663 being posted on deleted comments?
We can safely assume they are already doing it, it's just that laws are coming slowly to normalize this survelance so they can't tell us just yet. Vote for those laws to learn more.
How to create an AI narrator for your life
I think more importantly, K-Cups can be stored for long periods of time.

If you are not a daily coffee drinker, and you want to make coffee with the same infrequency you use all of your other kitchen gadgets, your grounds will be stale between cups.
Possibly because it either costs more for a more powerful heating element or takes longer?

Nespresso has an advantage in the way it works as it's a pressure system. Coffee vs. Espresso.
I Think AI Saturation Will Revive This Old Web Platform
It’s a bit like the empty set that is a subset of any other set.
> DeepMind may not be able to just train against all of YouTube just like that

What? Why?

> data quality x data quantity x transformer architecture tweaks x compute cost x talent x time.

Google arguably has the most data (it's search index), the best data (ranked and curated already, along with data sets like books), the cheapest compute (they literally run their own cloud offering and are one of the biggest purchasers of H100s), and the oldest and most mature ML team.