skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That doesn't answer the question. How are you so sure that you're not missing out on any? It's not like at the end of the year you get a report of all the trans people that you missed.
In Germany there's a company renting those (and other VR headsets, consoles, etc.) out. It's not super expensive. Maybe there's something similar where you are? A month for you to test it in the comforts of your own home might be better than 5 minutes in some shop.
> I actually think this hyper-granular realtime collaboration like in Google docs is slightly overrated.

Disagree, with the caveat that I understand how it can feel overrated if you're not using the new ways of remote collaboration that it enables.

The fully-live remote-collaboration UX in tools like Google Docs [1] and Figma is magical because you can get on a video call with people [2] and co-create, in the moment, without having to fumble with all the nonsense of figuring out who's "driving" and who's "navigating."

Since you're all looking at and editing the same doc, everyone can arrange their windows to have a line of faces along the side and the doc in the center. It's actually better than in-person collaboration. There's no haggling over who's got the whiteboard marker, no one sneezing on everyone else, no crowding around to make sure everyone can see the board...

All the extra nonsense drops away, and you get to be just a group of people making something together.

[1]: Notably, Google Sheets uses a much more ham-handed idea of "realtime." A cell appears "locked" while someone else is editing it, and you don't see their work until they hit Enter. So you end up having to sit there like a buffoon while they type, their work invisible to you, and that friction destroys the magic of live collaboration.

[2]: If you don't do much remote work/collaboration with others around the world, then none of this matters — and it's easy to miss the world of possibilities that this feature unlocks.
And between CSP and elixir, which promotes synchronous message passing and which promotes the asynchronous/queue approach?
Meanwhile, Google didn’t utilize a similar workaround with their Nexus 6P models (which was their flagship around the similar timeframe as the iOS “batterygate” scandal), as their phones were hitting the same issue.

You know what happened? While my friends who had iPhones were sometimes complaining about slowdowns, pretty much everyone I knew who owned a Nexus 6P (including myself) ended up having to deal with the RMA process. Why? Because the phone would just shutdown instantly while at double-digit percentage charge.

For me personally, it started with shutting down instantly at 8%. Then it creeped into the 12-15% territory. By the time I felt like I had it enough to deal with it, the phone would just shutdown entirely at 27-29%. The problem initially started around a year after the purchase, and progressed to this awful state in less than half a year. For a lot of people, it would straight up just start hitting a bootloop too, so your phone was entirely toast no matter what.

Nexus 6P was an extremely popular “clean android flagship from google” phone at the time (Samsung was not the clear “apple of android” player at yet, but was visibly getting there at a breakneck pace, as they were gearing up for the release of their Galaxy S8 series). Every single person I knew who owned that phone hit that problem within the first 18 months at latest.

To Google’s defense, their remediation was (at one specific narrow point in time) to just give people their newer Pixel 1 in exchange for RMA. The problem was that Google butched even that, as they didn’t expect such volume of requests, and they started denying RMA for people who didn’t have their “protection plan.” Oh, and that option was only available in certain locales in the first place, and you had to get a bit lucky even then.

The situation was so disastrous for the owners, I have no idea how Google managed to not get dragged through the mud in press for this even remotely as much as Apple continues getting dragged for their approach to almost the exact same problem that occurred around the exact same time period. My only bet is that, overall, Nexus phone market share wasn’t nearly as massive as that of iPhones.

Every single person I knew who owned a Nexus 6P hit this issue, and that included myself too.

For context, look at the number of comments on the “official RMA thread” in r/Nexus6P related to this[0]. Just reading the replies on it today almost gave me a headache, with how vividly I remember having to deal with this at the time.

0. https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/s/XPfDqktozm
I deal with parolees coming out of prison in the USA and try to get them set up with healthcare under the State plan here in Illinois. It is a pain. Most of these guys would have a lot of trouble getting set up and qualified if left to their own devices. Very complicated system that is tangled up in the fact that it is socialized healthcare sitting on top of mostly privatized healthcare. At least Chicago (Cook County) has its own healthcare system that plugs in to the system and offers a great backstop.
I think you're just racist conservatives making up facts from whole cloth to support some narrative of deintegration.

I’ve been trying to discuss with them on the merits of their argument, but having thought on this overnight I agree with you.

All their big argumentation and lofty words are, at their base, seemingly trying to defend a basic position that it’s okay - perhaps even desirable - to base desire to associate with someone solely on their ‘shape’ (obviously, skin color).
You might like

https://github.com/floooh/sokol
I've sent my daughter in to buy stuff with my card, and I have a male first name. With contactless or chip and pin no issues at all.
> Porn doesn't harm people.

The girlsdoporn victims would disagree with you.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/GirlsDoPorn
I like this quote! Was going to buy it on Kindle, but it's only available in print. It was reprinted with illustrations in 2010. Maybe the library has a copy. Thanks!
None of those things have a material effect on anyone by JP Morgan.

The “service” Carta is selling here is your company to other people.

Given 99% of private companies have specific limitations on not being able to do this with a company’s securities, this almost certainly runs afoul of SEC, FINRA, and other fraud regulations.
At restaurants, they usually swipe and then bring you a receipt to sign. Yes, we still have the magnetic strip enabled.

Most retailers it’s tap/RFID or chip read, but I still run into old POS hardware that requires a mag swipe (not often - I think Visa charges the merchant more for these transactions).

EDIT - I much prefer chip/PIN and wish it were the default here. And wish all US cards had a PIN (some don’t, and those that support it usually need it enabled explicitly). This causes problems in Europe with unmanned terminals (gas stations after hours, train ticket self-service).
> Parental controls on devices suck, and are wildly ineffective.

Well, Microsoft Family Safety was very effective to not allow Firefox to run, although Edge ran fine. /s
"Currently the only site I go regularly that are JS SPAs are ...."

Are you sure about that? Well made SPAs don't look like apps. They navigate seamlessly and instantly because they're not redownloading and parsing all their header and footer HTML, re-constructing a brand new DOM, loading and reinterpreting CSS, and bootstrapping a new Javascript runtime on every click.

Look at https://react.dev/learn, click around the documentation pages - do you think that's an SPA or an MPA?

Open up your network tab, and you'll find out what's happening: When you hover over a nav header, it starts preloading a JSON file containing the content for that page. When you click on a navigation link, that content's loaded into the react DOM and some more prefetches of just JSON content for likely next pages are loaded up. Your browser navi is updated, but you are still in the same original page context you started in. It is insanely snappy to interact with.
The article clarifies that this would cover pretty much any website which allows you upload video, so minors would have to take part on YouTube, Facebook, etc.

I guess the opt out would be to not use those platforms, but that seems unlikely.
It's not nearly as bad as America, though. Once you're married you graduate into a different social role where your appearance doesn't matter much. I don't think any of my aunties have ever been to a gym, went on a diet, etc. When your doctor warns you about diabetes you start going on walks and trying to cut down on your rice portions.
It's pretty easy to hang out with smokers when you smoke. Light one up, shoot the shit.

It's pretty easy to hang out with drinkers when you drink. Grab a glass, shoot the shit.

But it's hard to hang out with smokers and drinkers when you don't drink or smoke. Those who smoke or drink are the vast majority of the adult US population.

It's especially hard when you're not religious, as most of the teetotalers seem to be religious. Finding non-smoking, non-drinking, religiously tolerant peeps as an adult is so, so tough. It's like, choose one (or more) - drinking, smoking, institutional religion. Those are your options if you want to be a social adult.

It doesn't seem like it should be this way, but it seems to be, across countries and cultures.
As an avid reader, this is truly appreciated as I agree with the philosophy that if you buy the book you are buying the content so you should have access to the digital content as well. However, do you find that people are either predominantly paper or predominantly digital so this offer ends up being only a nice "extra" gesture (a very appreciated one for the thoughtfulness)?
> I don't think the issue is that war is hard, but rather that we keep trying to attack motivated local populations.

The local population of South Vietnam, for the most part, did not want to be conquered by the communists, did not rise up against the South Vietnamese government during the Tet Offensive as the communists expected them to, and were, in fact, brutally conquered and suppressed by the communist armies that invaded them from the north after the United States abandoned them. Why do you think so many of them became refugees? These people were our allies and we abandoned them.

You’re providing a perfect example of how the United States lost a propaganda war that had, at best, an extremely loose relationship with the reality on the ground.

And the exact same thing happened in Afghanistan. The level of American presence and support for the Afghan government was minimal and would have been easily sustainable, and it had been years since a single American casualty had been suffered. The withdrawal was a completely unforced error that left billions of dollars in weapons, thousands of Afghan translators, and the biometric data to identify them all in the hands of the Taliban. It was an absolute disgrace.
Note that this is not "MozillaSocial" as the title suggests, but it links to the Github repo of `mozilla-social-android`, the Android app.

https://mozilla.social/
Has Nino integrated Git into their tools? Editing lines of code over a GitHub diff window makes sense, but I’m not sure how that would work in, say, a spreadsheet: I don’t know if adding a line =21%*G17 below G17 is a good idea; I’d much rather have the changes in the context of a sheet and understand that it’s computing the VAT on top of the total cost.
Eliza never passed a turing test. Nobody tried to test Eliza because they knew what the result would be
It looks that way. It's not the same as the doors you see on some safety cards where, if you are in an exit row, you should remove the door inward and place it on the exit row seats. It looks like it is meant to be lifted up and outward, assisted by springs. When it is not configured as an emergency exit, it is supposed to be bolted in place. Hmmm. Bolted in place.
> So after you get hired and provide that information for government statistics collection, why would your employer ever need to ask you for it afterwards?

Because your employer wants to collect statistics too.
> Some accounts in the comments really care about what name is on my credit cards

Which comments are those? From my skim most people objecting to this are skeptical it works, rather than insisting that the name on the card matches your legal name.
>NYT is alleging that OpenAI maintains a database of NYT works and refers to it verbatim (per-prompt) as part of the ChatGPT software and not via some pre-trained wieghts.

So if ChatGPT didn't refer to it verbatim and if ChatGPT trained on it and mixed it with other content, NYT would be OK with that? Tbh I don't get it.

Edit: I found this in my bookmarks archive - https://news.slashdot.org/story/23/08/15/2242238/nyt-prohibi...

Also this: https://www.cnbc.com/2023/10/18/universal-music-sues-anthrop...
Why is comparing per hour better? The utility of a transport system is in its ability to move things, not in its ability to consume time.
Is it really a C program if you cannot execute a buffer overflow attack.
This isn't a bad price point for a set of glasses that allows for shared spatial anchors. It is disappointing that they don't provide SDK access to the front cameras. If they are truly targeting the business market they need to go after the customer service industry, one of HoloLen's biggest niches.

Years ago, with their original dev kit, they had a set of glasses that offered an SDK with video access, spatial anchors, all kinds of stuff. I don't know why they just didn't continue selling that.
>Aider does this, using tree-sitter to build a “repository map”. This helps the LLM understand the overall code base and how it relates to the specific coding task at hand.

Great stuff.

>More broadly, I agree with your sentiment that there is a lot of value in considering the best ways to structure the data we share with LLMs. Especially in the context of coding.

As the experiments on PHI-1 and PHI-2 from microsoft show, training data make a difference. The "textbooks is all you need" moto means better structured data, more clear data make a difference.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.11644
IMHO, this is a misleading headline: They are not building a “porn preference register”, they just going full-dystopian nightmare collecting live biometric data that could be used to _infer_ your porn preferences.

We don’t need stupid headlines to make this idea sound dumber, and kinda distracts from the real issue of biometric verification for websites being a stupid idea.
Well that relates to something I heard a few years ago about there being more water in the earth's crust and mantle than in the oceans. Isn't there some SciFi book along those lines with the water rising up? Not something I've actually read, but I'm pretty sure I heard about it.
> This is a luddite argument

And that is empty statement.
The questions about the integrity and quality of her dissertation are important. Copying from Wikipedia? Seriously? Even my undergrad students know that Wikipedia is not a source, but just a place you may find references to sources.

But wait, there's more. She graduated in 2010 and was immediately hired as an MIT professor. That just does not happen at places like MIT. Even if you are really good, you will first be expected to do a couple of postdocs at other institutions.

Honestly, something smells, so one looks further. Her professorship appears to be externally funded (the "Sony Corporation Career Development Professor"). So why, exactly, would Sony pay MIT to hire a fresh grad as a professor? Ackman has been known to make direct donations to MIT. Has he made other, more indirect ones as well?
Floating point math is not associative, (x+y)+z != x+(y+z). Most of the time the difference is small, but in some cases not (I.E. x = 1e30, y = -1e30 and z = 1, it is 1 in the former case, 0 in the latter).

Modern compilers will reorder operations depending on a whole host of factors, and this means in general unless you really go out of your way, floating point math may not even be deterministic! I've seen this happen during certain optimization algorithms, completely different results on different machines even with the same random seed and confirmed same random sequence of numbers, it was because of the floating point reordering!

https://docs.oracle.com/cd/E19957-01/806-3568/ncg_goldberg.h...
It's not about regulating porn, it's about regulating what you can think about. This has been a 'feature' of the US for quite some time, create lists of your political enemies and the 'naughty' things they do so you can use them against them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/McCarthyism 2.0
50 Years of Video Game Industry Revenues, by Platform
I assumed visa officer is the only and highest authority an applicant can approach. How can an applicant counter a rejection?
This is not just beyond idiotic, this is straightforward evil and dangerous.
With the small reservation that this is not how Eliza works. Eliza sits on top of MAD/SLIP which does all the heavy work and provides lists and integer indexes, which is what is processed by Eliza. This allows Eliza to work on decomposition rules, which isolate keywords per position and context, and transformation (composition) rules to recombine elements and links between those two. Meaning, the model is much more topological than this. (Arguably, this is closer to regular expressions than to if-else trees.)

However, this isn't what Eliza is all about. It's rather about the question, how little do you actually need in terms of knowledge, world model, or rule sets to give the impression of an "intelligent" (even sympathetic) participant in a conversation (as long as you're able to constrain the conversation to a setting, which doesn't require any world knowledge, at all.) To a certain degree, it is also about how eager we are to overestimate the capabilities of such a partner in conversation, as soon as some criteria seem to be satisfied. Which is arguably still relevant today.

The rule set, BTW, is actually small, just 3 pages in a printout, achieving a surprising generality (or rather, appearance thereof) for its size. Compare: https://cse.buffalo.edu/~rapaport/572/S02/weizenbaum.eliza.1...
So are you competing with 18 different products at the same time? Or is this just a glorified note taking & publishing app?

Either way I am getting strong https://zombo.com/ vibes from the description here and your landing page.

Instead of a clear problem statement and user use cases, you have this word salad of “consolidation” (of what?), “superapp” (that does what?), “unmatched privacy” (to do privately what?) and “offline mode” (I still have no idea what I can do with the app, but apparently I can do this something offline?).

That said, I am double surprised with all the praise comments here on HN. Can someone explain in one sentence what this app is supposed to do?
I think the fact that no one could die from flawed management decisions I had to enact is probably what has kept a small fraction of my sanity.
That’s just a bad design though. When I go to a bar they don’t store a record of my ID for future review by the government. They look at my ID, see I am of age, and then our interaction is complete. No further record exists, nor should it.

The government can try accessing porn sites themselves to see if the sites are in compliance. The same way we do, well, everything.

That it isn’t designed this way shows the incompetence of the regulators and their disregard for public safety and free society.

And hopefully it doesn’t need to be pointed out but none of this actually protects children. This is abuse of power for the purpose of puritanical guilt tripping.
Direct link to document - https://www.cnam.ie/wp-content/uploads/2023/12/Draft_Online_...
>Parents can easily control which parts of the internet their kids have access to

I'm not sure that this is true. It doesn't sound true.
I don't mind a build step, per se, just that the JS ecosystem's build step is particularly more painful than others.
If I take the New York times article and publish it verbatim, that's a problem.

And that's seems to be the problem. Apparently ChatGPT was spitting out entire copies of NYT articles without attribution and falsely attributing things to NYT it had made up.
> The GPU featured an AGP interface (an ancient competitor to PCIe)

Man that makes me feel old. AGP was the new thing the last time I built a PC before switching to laptops. 22 years doesn't seem to warrant the word ancient.
This has probably nothing with catholicism and everything with bureaucracy-satety-ism.
"Common sense" means focusing on first order effects. Don't prod your coworkers about their race because that will obviously make them feel uncomfortable.

Woke, in this case, is focusing on Nth order effects.. do prod your coworker about their race because abstract reasons justified by theories about social abstractions... Thinking about group effects that might kick in at the societal level instead of the effect you're having immediately on the individual sitting right in front of you.

The former, first order common sense thinking, is what normal people intuitively do. Focusing on the individual when dealing with an individual is the common sense approach. The second, focusing about abstract secondary group effects when dealing with an individual, is something people get trained into doing by sociology class in university, or being lectured on the internet, or being indoctrinated into a racist ideology. A traditional racist or a modern woke person doesn't see individuals, they see representatives of abstract groups that must be treated in some way calculated to have Nth order group effects.
Germany is extremely focused on that aspect of history and even used to have laws [1] in the books prohibiting anything SSN-like for many years. Yet German ID cards have a built-in contactless chip that allows using them for online identity verification and e-signing.

This is obviously more secure than taking a photo of an analog ID as an "online identity proof" (a somewhat absurd idea if you think about it, yet it's the state of the art in most countries today). But if done correctly (and I do realize that this is a very big if), it even be more privacy-preserving too:

For example, when trying to prove your age to a website, the only thing that site really should have to learn is the fact whether you were born more or less than a certain number of days ago. Not your date of birth, not your name, and certainly not a picture of your face or any other biometric data.

Digital ID can do that (e.g. by asking the secure chip "Is the accountholder born before $date? If so, please sign this challenge using a key shared among all ID cards" or something equivalent). Analog ID requires you to reveal strictly more information than that to a service provider and hope for the best.

[1] Technically a supreme court opinion
This feels overly simplistic to me because there's no way to define "conscious"
Highly misleading title. Although I disagree with the plan either way, the state is not building a 'porn preference register.' This concept is introduced in this particular article, but there technically are ways to store user preferences separate from their PII.

The linked article from Irish Examiner has a more accurate title:

> Porn sites may require passport details in order to stop children from using them
COBRA is an artifact of pre Affordable Care Act health insurance, when you could be denied for pre existing conditions and it simply was not sold as easily to individuals.

It can easily be dispensed of and nothing would change, people would simply need to go to healthcare.gov.
And why is that bad?

Your mindset would mean that Windows would have next to no backwards compatibility, for instance.