skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No problems with ideology when it’s right. Bundling documentation with the tool in a standard text format is the way to go. This can easily be reformatted for online wikis, manuals, etc.
Newspapers ran for decades without any tracking, and they had to make and distribute physical objects.
I don't understand the diagram. We have a browser sending a request to the identity provider. Then sometime later, the relying party is responding. How does the response come from a different server than the request went to?

Maybe it would help if each response was correlated to its corresponding request somehow.
This is a classic two sided market. People who need money and are willing to sell services don’t know who you are. And people who are willing to buy services don’t know who you are. And the platform is useless unless you have both of those.

The trick here is to find a very specific niche to start with. Instead of the goal being “let me get this popular everywhere” your short term goal should be to find how to make it popular among a single existing community. Churches, mosques and synagogues are a good place to start. People in those groups already like to support each other and virtually all of them have one or more internal WhatsApp or Facebook groups where people who start a campaign can advertise to others in their community.
KakaoTalk is used by almost all smartphone users in Korea. Their protocol has been reverse-engineered [0] but using a third-party client can get your account banned [1].

I think WeChat does something similar.

Wouldn't it be "fun" if Apple did this, too!?

0: https://src.miscworks.net/fair/matrix-appservice-kakaotalk.g...

1: https://kakao.com/talksafety/en/policy/stability/abnormalusa...
FreeIPA is pretty good for internal users when money is tight. It's a FOSS almost AD but for *NIX and it does HA. For the SSO part, Shibboleth2 or CAS.
The chrome add-on system has the ability for the management organisation to set a whitelist for your corporate computer.

I don't recall this to be the case for Firefox (that may have changed by now?). So you can only use vanilla Firefox in a corporate managed profile.
absolutely here is an example with openai. First pass you explain the task and let it reply to a hundredish examples. Fix the errors, fine tune. And it should be much better. You can repeat that any time you need until you reach satisfactory results but they come quickly when I worked on large number of short texts i wanted to classify and extract info from.
> Musk was not instrumental in mainstream EVs.

Tesla absolutely was and still is. They dominate the market.

> on other days it's more or less dialup grade

You’ve either got bad hardware or you’ve never used dialup. Even in congestion on the RV product (lower priority than residential) I’ve only seen down to 20mbps. That’s 400x dialup.

> I'm quite honestly not impressed with what it delivers for how much I pay

Please cancel! I could use the capacity when I’m out in the boondocks.

> Everyone will continue insisting that Kessler Syndrome Won't Possibly Happen until about a year after it's happened, at which point, welp. It was fun while it lasted!

LEO natural decay means a royal fuckup locks out <10 years.

If you have any actual meaningful analysis to add on why these constellations are Kessler risks, please notify the space force! Everyone involved seems to think it’s not a problem so you should probably correct them.
Meth is substantially more serotonergic IIRC. Can’t find the numbers.
Most people who write engines probably don't actually want to make games in the first place and would rather be making engines anyway.
Researchers create first programmable, logical quantum processor
It opens up for faster support once there is a new model though. So it seems more of a long term good than a short term one.
Agree - you only need to look at things like the hybrid flows to see where things fall apart: why would you issue an id_token that contains user information to a client which hasn't yet fully authenticated itself via a code-to-token exchange with passing it's client_id + secret? If you look at certain implementations, such as Auth0, you'll find that they actually POST that token back at the redirect_uri, since, a) it's at least registered against the client; b) it's not subject to capture as easily. The spec says NOTHING about protecting this info, though.
But ads aren't going away. Maybe eventually all tracking goes away (probably in the EU first), but ads never do.

And even if they did, just imagine all the sites that solely use ads vanishing. And there you have it. You can still do shopping and banking. You can still subscribe to newspapers.

And you could have run your blog for free with no ads on SDF, and you could host videos there, too.

Sure, it wouldn't be the same as today's Internet, but like I said, since ads aren't going away, it's just an interesting thought experiment.
> Apple wasn't required to implement any CSAM detection, so why did they do it?

As things were, Apple was able to serve up peoples images when presented with a warrant.

If they went to end to end encryption for photo libraries they wouldn’t be able to do that. And I can basically guarantee something would happen and there would be claims about how “Apple protects child molesters”. It’s just too juicy, and we saw the ones about Apple protecting terrorists by not unlocking phones.

So I think they tried to come up with a solution. Something that would let them do end to end encryption but be able to show they’re not protecting child pornographers.
This would never happen but in an ideal world, we should be able to click on a citation to jump to the part of the paper that is being referenced and each paper page should have a discussion board so we can easily communicate with the authors and group the discussion in one place instead of us having to google to see if there is relevant discussion on twitter/reddit. We can even put links to talks, tutorials, blogs, github repo, demo, paperswithcode/google scholar/open review, background material, a timeline of citations in tree form on the same page(actually I am seeing more machine learning papers that have a project page that does some of these) or even turn it into a mini wiki. I just think html has so much more potential(especially now with LLM we can do semantic search). I wonder if there would be interest in such a chrom extension overlay.

Related projects:

https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

https://github.com/arxiv-vanity/engrafo

https://github.com/dginev/ar5iv

https://academ.us/article/2111.15588/ (powered by https://github.com/jgm/pandoc I believe)
The ECU puts you in what's basically valet mode until you hit the mileage.
Having blue bubbles instead of green definitely motivates some people to buy Apple devices in the US.

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/why-teens-hate-androi...
I’d also be interested to know how the tidyverse’s “tibbles” perform here.
> He's a kid with a very serious mental illness. Perhaps we don't need to sink to these insults.

Granted. I was speaking more to the general frustration of defense lawyers who have clients that say things when they should have said nothing.

> Hundreds of thousands of man hours - What is that based on?

A guess from years of working for large tech corporations. A company level crisis of this magnitude sucks in a lot of people from a lot of departments. Add in all the other time spent by investigators and the courts, and I don't think I'm overestimating at all. Now multiply that times the 11 major breaches he was part of.

> international conspiracy - All the hyperbole undermines your point, imho.

Arrests were made in Brazil and the UK. Organizations from at least six countries were attacked. They attempted to extort millions from multiple companies. Personal data from 300k people in Argentina was released. They took down the site for COVID vaccination records in Brazil. Rockstar was the 11th attack and one of the less harmful ones, I'm not sure why people are so focused on that one. What about the leaked personal info, what about the impacts to Brazilian health ministry and Brazilian citizens? These weren't explorers just getting in to see if they could. They got in, pillaged data, and followed up with more crimes. They certainly conspired, and it was certainly international.

I'm not saying that this is the most heinous crime an 18 year old can commit, and I never did. I am simply saying that this was more harmful than a lot of people think, and if it was mental illness that caused him to do it, then it is pretty reasonable for the court to say that he wont be criminally liable, but that he is required to get help before he is trusted to be out in the world again.
> railroads

Which, in the US, typically have been heavily monopolized and poorly regulated and existing regulations poorly enforced. The history here is pretty extensive, actually, and often forgotten, because rail has significantly lost it's power.

So, we keep trying to make better roads, it frees up space for individual travel, it prioritizes commerce, and roads seem better fitted to a Democratic society than what rail ends up being here.
There's a feature I use heavily that I cannot get in Chrome: Multi-Account Containers[1].

[1] https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/multi-account...
I like this article

A tougher question for me here is the why, vs how: 'Why research LLMs in academia if you can work in industry on the same problems with more resources?'. Systems researchers face something similar, where big systems are easier to research at Google etc. and get paid much more to do so.

The bit on Reasoning seems relevant: many industry roles for that will be taken by people ahead of the pre-graduation student, and it's research that fewer industry labs will be doing in an extreme way than say engineering more efficient inferencing. Doing that kind of research today is a lot more exciting than when we were doing it 10 years ago, so it's a special time.
I alwas thought that the Singapore car thing was a reason for dads to get a break from a crowded appartment.

Sleeping-car-dads-under-newspaper was a common thing to see when I was there 25 years ago...
You can use Rails/Django/NextJS + Postgres/Mysql and while I guess that's not technically a monolith, everybody calls it that anyway because the coordination is pretty much abstracted out. And that's gonna get you pretty far. If you really wanted it to be a monolith, you could use sqlite and that would actually get you pretty far too, but why would you when postgres/mysql is just as easy and will scale so much further?
I’m doing a study of metahobbyists
U.S. and Europe Eye Russian Assets to Aid Ukraine as Funding Dries Up
From 55 days ago:

Do not go gentle into that overflowing landfill https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38036151

The Public Interest Research Group (PIRG) has delivered a petition to Microsoft calling on the company to rethink the impending abandonment of Windows 10 in the face of millions of PCs potentially being rendered eligible for landfill overnight.

The Register link: https://www.theregister.com/2023/10/27/microsoft_petitioned_...

There are now less than two years until Microsoft is due to cut support for Windows 10, and at current estimates, 400 million PCs can't make the jump to Windows 11.

The petition, addressed to Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella, criticizes its plans and states that customers expect their devices to last rather than be rendered obsolete by an arbitrary decision. PIRG warns that tipping that much hardware into landfills is somewhat at odds with the company's stance on the environment.

https://pirg.org/media-center/20000-call-on-microsoft-to-sav...

https://pirg.org/take-action/tell-microsoft-dont-leave-milli...

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More than 4 in 10 PCs still can't upgrade to Windows 11 (2022) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33150186

https://www.theregister.com/2022/10/10/windows_11_adoption/
I use a 7 year old 2 GB / 32 GB Intel Atom for random surfing and travelling. Running Linux of course. Probably ARM would be even better.

It's not fully as snappy as a big machine and you would not be able to run a couple of containers / Electron apps / a modern IDE on it. But it's fully usable for 99% of users / use cases.

This planet cannot support many GBs for every human. So called modern computing is an incredible waste of resources, Android being amongst the worst.

Edit: Sorry for claiming 1 GB RAM first. Didn't remember correctly, fixed after turning it on and checking.
The idea that they could create such a thing both enhances their reputation and is something they can use to try and get legislation to prevent anyone from catching up with them.

“How could you trust random people to do this safely? It needs to be illegal and something only we can be trusted to make money o… I mean use responsibly.”

It’s an attempt at regulatory capture.
Artificial intelligence can predict events in people's lives
I used to get really upset about this, but not as much anymore. I don't think the solution is sitting around and hoping for compromise. It's better if we stop trying to make it sustainable and let it suffocate itself so that the service workers and young money can move elsewhere

It only works if people keep stretching themselves thin in order to buy into the manipulated real estate markets, once this becomes untenable the aforementioned regions will become less relevant. Then you might see a real attempt at change, but at that point people won't care and the jobs will be elsewhere
Isn't this a benefit you'd trivially get just by using .zip? I pull individual files out of large .zip archives in S3 using HTTP range requests; works exactly as you'd expect. You know the zip header is at the end of the file, and the header tells you the offset and length of the compressed entry data so you can request the range. Two requests if you've never seen the .zip before, one if you've got the zip header cached.
Looking at the chart, the US, Europe and Japan have fairly stable numbers actually. The thing that’s most notable is the explosion in Chinese steel production.
I take an optional parameter time that when unset defaults to time.now.

Makes testing trivial and operative code trivial
I use info extensively for the GNU projects. As a user.

The thing is—GNU is right here, that info is better. You can run info from the command-line just like man, except info pages are hierarchical, indexed, and have links. The same sources can then be used to generate web pages. You then have one set of docs you update, which are accessible both from the web and from the terminal. The system can handle large projects and it’s easy to navigate—much easier than man. It’s beautiful.

Man, by comparison, gives you individual pages. I think that’s great when you need to stare at the docs for an individual API call for a while, like when you read “man mmap” or something, but it sucks for large projects. You can convert man pages to web pages but it’s not competitive with info.

Try running “info gcc” or “info make” at some point and you’ll see something beautiful. You can browse linearly using space/backspace, and Q to quit. You can do a text search across the whole manual, you can follow links, etc.

I find this system good enough that when it’s available, I don’t use the web browser to look up docs for stuff like GCC or Make.
Personally I never use either. If I want to know how to do something, my first instinct is to Google it or use ChatGPT. The information is a lot more easily compressed and searchable in a web browser than in CLI tools
I wonder if this is a useful service that an llm could actually outperform humans on.
If we also call that a monolith, what else is there? We have fully encompassed all the options.
The oroblem is that gaining this responsiveness fundamentally makes your task much more difficult. Instead of just creating a picture you're now writing code that has to be maintained. In my philosophy arxiv is for documents which are set in granite - pictures.
More so these days you buy some expensive hardware but keeping subscribing to apps and buy TV shows and cloud storage from them due to convenience. And then you buy the next model after a few years because why would you change a working formula for some Samsung/Google android BS that won’t be as clean….
OpenAI buffs safety team and gives board veto power on risky AI
OpenAI is expanding its internal safety processes to fend off the threat of harmful AI. A new "safety advisory group" will sit above the technical teams
This made me remember how badly I’d like to make a TUI for business software.

Any recommendations, has anyone shipped (and maintained!) something like this?
Sadly, the Brick Game model from which the ROM dump was taken doesn't contain a racing game, which was in the Brick Game that I had as a child.
You can use a replacer function to special handle stringifying functions if you needed to do that.
No, this is manufactured.
> I googled homeschooling and reading level; I found no discussion or documentation of the reading capabilities of homeschooled children.

Some research done in Australia found that homeschooled children performed above-average on standardised tests, including reading: https://www.smh.com.au/national/nsw/homeschooled-kids-perfor... ("NAPLAN" is Australia's nationwide standardised testing program for years 3 and 5; the "HSC" is the state of New South Wales' statewide year 12 exams, used for university entry)
The very fact that these fights are happening in 2023 demonstrates that there are, or at least were until recently, strong and active unions. Maybe the Korean government's 2009 law really did depower the unions, and maybe Korea will see a corresponding shortage of workers in air traffic control and similar safety-critical jobs gradually develop as the effect of that works its way through.
Maybe it’s not especially amazing in 2023 but I totally agree. Finding random documents you snapped a photo of because you’re looking for some text that happened to appear on the edge of the page in a tiny font, it’s really useful. L

I’ve used the feature to find my cars VIN, passport numbers, random places etc.
Apple already has the CoreML framework anyone can use to do on device processing. They even have tools to help convert things into the format the iPhone uses. As others have pointed out you can already find apps with public models on the Apple App Store.

They’re not doing anything to censor any of this.
Gv (part of ghostscript) used to do a good job of this for two column documents. When zoomed in to show one column width of text, the spacebar ran through the top of column 1, then the bottom of column 1, then the top of column 2 and so on.

The amount it scrolled probably depended on the aspect ratio of the window, so it might be multiple key presses to scroll an entire column.
Tencent Announces AppAgent
DAU farms are going to get redefined I guess.
GNU project really likes to stick to its guns long after the battle is lost
I'm all for land value tax, but it wouldn't fix things on its own. The main reason those vacant buildings aren't being converted to homes isn't because their owners don't want the money, it's because it would be extremely difficult to meet the code and zoning requirements (and even then, I don't think New York has by-right zoning rules, so you can meet all the requirements and still be turned down) to use them as homes.
If you know how to use info, it’s faster to find what you’re looking for than to use Google or ChatGPT. The interface is incredibly snappy and lets you do a full text search across the entire manual you are reading, quickly and without leaving the keyboard.

Not that there’s anything wrong with using Google or ChatGPT to find what you are looking for, but info is a fast way to get authoritative information, and the documentation is also mirrored on the web so it can be easily indexed by search engines and LLMs.
I don't have the number offhand, but Wikipedia did exactly that kind of startup competing with online encyclopedias.
It’s using web technologies so yes it could also be on Android. I’ll see what can be done.
Assuming you always have convenient access to the internet. And that you version of the tool you are working with matches whatever result you find online.

And even then, often the best results you get from google come from the man or info page anyway.

My first search when googling documentation for a tool is often "man <toolname<"
What if I don't have a terminal illness.
I agree, I think this is what they meant. A feature for the people who have an iPhone 8 or 9 who say “why would I upgrade, my current phone is fine”.

If you can use this tech to make a feature that they really want you can trigger upgrades that otherwise may not happen for many more years. We’ve seen that before with things like when Apple first released a bigger phone. That triggered a LOT of “early” upgrades that wouldn’t have otherwise happened.
> The biggest roadblock is usually lack of a TPM 2.0, which Windows requires to improve security for boot, bitlocker, and passwordless auth.

We're mad at Microsoft because Windows is still perfectly usable (well, as usable as Windows ever is) without those things, but they refuse to let you install it without one.
I hear you, but the promise and curse of software is that it is malleable. We are not building bridges with extremely clear and obvious success and failure, we are creating user experiences that vary subjectively based on who is using them and what other digital or physical realities they interact with. It's an alluring fantasy that if we just let the seasoned experts design everything and gave them space to work, we could have better quality systems.

This is not how it plays out though, you get burned from both sides. Inevitably some non-technical leadership stakeholders ask very fair questions about "why can't we just...", and they're not wrong about what's possible, it's just different from what came before and it's not possible to rebuild entire digital systems as quickly as the good ideas come.

On the implementation side, details matter and abstractions leak, seemingly small requirement changes undermine assumptions behind major architectural decisions. The idea that you can have a handful of seasonsed experts guiding an army of low-skill builders just doesn't work out with the same economics of physical construction. The details matter too much, and the implications of pure logic are too diverse to be covered by the equivalent of physical building codes.
Thank you Asahi team this is awesome.
My eardrum rupture was amazing. Would recommend :)

Not so much “fun” as “blessed relief”. I picked up some sort of nasty flu in Mexico in about 2005, and my eustachian tubes got blocked for a few weeks, resulting in an ear infection with pressure building up behind the eardrum in one of my ears.

When that drum finally burst I felt so much better. It was a sharp pain, and it was a bit gross, but so much better…

Pseudoephedrine did nothing for me (it usually works great) and it took a a course of co-amoxiclav to finally clear up the infection.
> This planet cannot support many GBs for every human

Interesting perspective, do you have evidence to support this?

Older computers almost always use more electricity than newer ones, I don't see how this is a real thing.
You forgot about video.
also common is "Hacker"
Garbage collection is private, so I assume they're charging a fair price. Water/power cover their expenses through monthly bills. Sewer is mostly covered through monthly bills, with a small amount coming from "other sources" which I don't understand.

Lots of nearby homes are 70+ years old, so it's not like it's just that it's new construction and hasn't encountered maintenance costs yet.
Let me know if you’re ever interested in a paid internship, Varun! Very impressive work putting this all together.