skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>[...] and security.

Disagree about the security. I just found out last month how unsecure the use of paper checks actually are because they expose your bank account & routing number.

I had an old checking account that was dormant and I hadn't written any paper checks against it for 10 years. What then happened was a landscape service asked me for payment for some work so I had my credit-card ready to settle the bill but they surprised me by saying they would charge extra 3% fee for processing the card. However, they said there was no fee if I paid by paper check. I didn't want to pay hundreds extra in fees so I used that dormant checking account to pay them with a paper check. They cashed my check the next day and I didn't think anything about it.

About a month later, I saw a mysterious "e-check" that subtracted money from my dormant checking account! It was not ACH; it was a generated e-check from a billing service popular with adult companies. So somebody from the landscaping company used the numbers on the bottom of my paper check to generate a fake digital check. The thief was on a website that let you pay for a subscription by creating an echeck; the web form would have fields for entering anybody's bank routing # and account #. (Example: https://solutionscout.com/payment-processing/e-check/)

When I talked to Bank of America about the fraud, I asked the customer service representative if there was any security setting that would prevent fake checks like that from deducting money from the account. He said "no". The fake e-check even had a totally bogus check # that was out of sequence with my real checks and he said their system doesn't verify the sequential #s. Literally, you're powerless to stop it and the only thing you can do is let the fake e-checks steal your money -- and then later file a fraud claim hoping to get the money back!

Paper checks are flawed with a critical security hole by letting companies generate fake e-checks. This means the more paper checks you write and release out into the world, the more of your banking surface area is exposed for you to become a victim of fraud.
Depends if you think bailing out the banks was the wrong choice overall. The last time the Great Depression happened we got a world war out of it.

It's true that perverse incentives were created out of that, but I would ask if the financial industry is still making these mistakes like NINJA loans. Considering how we just got out of inflation without a recession, the US economy seems pretty structurally sound today.
I think the discomfort of sweaty eyes is a much bigger problem than damaging the device. It's extremely easy toake the device sweatproof compared to fixing the sweaty eyes issue.
Why would anyone want an Internet Explorer domain?
Not sure what you are talking about. I am gaming on it for years and as my main PC.
You're an AI, aren't you?
Different tools, different audiences. Sibling comments show that many people prefer the rich UI's that Gitlab, Github, Gitea etc. offer, while others prefer more hardcore brutal minimalism. Each audience is served with their favorite tools. For instance Sourcehut is a great product if you like mail and sending patches. What I find a bit tiresome, and witness mostly 'the minimalists' doing so, is people coming in with "This is shite" religious notions on what is 'the right way'. There is choice. And that is wonderful.
The problem with civil litigation against some of these dark patterns is it can be challenging to show quantifiable harm to a magnitude that makes it worth pursuing. Fortunately judges are becoming more keyed-in to the intrinsic value of privacy.
That is probably legally dubious in the EU at least
This comment sounds so insightful, but I don't have the knowledge/insight to understand it!

I would love it if you could add some practical example.
>The home versions being "untrustworthy" also could help push sales of the business version.

How so? Consumers don't have easy access to the Business version AFAIK, and businesses will always buy the Business version anyway.
I assumed the target audience knows a bit about prompt-based LLMs and could use some guidance. If that's the case, I think this serves as an excellent and straightforward framework for leveling up their skills.
They will be manufacturing those ARM cpus
Thanks for the good reads and your TLDR.

I believe there are very good reasons to design Flutter as it is and I don’t want to denigrate it. I think it is awesome work.

It is just that Swift feels extremely elegant and well-shaped, like a Domain Specific Language, and it didn’t feel this in the beginning. It evolved and did a great job.

Maybe like Java and Kotlin. I like Java after all, however I enjoy Kotlin the way I enjoyed Groovy.

BTW: Hixie, tech lead for Flutter, is my man. Dude was instrumental in establishing HTML5.
> Checks also let you do fairly complex multiparty commerce without needing to spend millions of dollars engineering it, like an apartment broker requiring you to give them a check for deposit/first month’s rent and signed lease prior to releasing the keys to you.

You don’t need to spend millions of dollars engineering an electronic solution to this problem, you just need a legal agreement between the broker and the landlord allowing the broker to accept the deposit on the landlord’s behalf. That’s not exactly a stretch.

I don’t even know my current landlord’s name, to be honest. It’s on the lease, but my deposit and rent go to the management company that maintains the building.
malthusian bollocks, earth can sustain tens of billions of human beings, the downside that 10 acre mcmansions and huge pickup trucks will be unaffordable for the "middle class". We produce already enough resources, we waste them on allocation
This is what function calling is for.

https://openai.com/blog/function-calling-and-other-api-updat...
443 Maryland. I get this joke.
I'd pick a ccTLD of a stable country over a nuTLD any day.
At risk of throwing the baby out with the bathwater, think back to how you would've browsed the internet before Google. You probably would've grown your own web-directory of bookmarks, right? That's also how you explore the non-SEO-paved parts of the internet now.

I haven't learned to find product reviews yet, but I imagine that a trick would be to know which forums to go for certain kinds of products, e.g. maybe https://xdaforums.com/ for Android devices.

There is also the search engine https://boardreader.com/ which ONLY searches proper forums--sometimes you find neat threads, sometimes not.
The neverending game of monopoly. Capitalism could do well with a redistribution button.

IIRC it was the Babylonians that made a reset on all debt each time a new king came to power. Debt was simply wiped out and everyone restarted on a more level playing field.

Our form of capitalism could do well with such an instrument.
Sure, there was a different big antenna idea of a different size and a different end goal sketched out in the early 1970s.

This antenna project, with a square kilometre target and Lo|Mid frequency ranges was sketched out largely by European and Commonwealth astros at Commonwealth Radio conferences - your link does mention the earlier work by Canadians and parallel|later work by the Dutch to craft small dish arrays to survey the sky (as opposed to the Cyclops SETI goals).

The event that really kicked things along (as I distantly recall) from an idea on the back of envelopes to a project with dot points looking for international backers was the 1988 collapse of the 300 Foot Telescope - whether it was due to load, to vibrations, poor materials, etc. it served to launch several new lines of creating larger telescopes - suspended across natural craters, broken into arrays of smaller dishes, etc.

SKA as a specific project had some back history before it "officially" was launched; before the 2011 legal entity, before the 1998 name adoption, before the 1990 anniversary of VLA's.

My comment was motivated largely by looking back in wonder at just how long it takes to get projects of this scale up and running - I've attended pie in the sky proposals for variations on this since 1982 (same year as my first introduction to the (then) current state of gravity wave detection).

> While Pawsey .. it is not the only processing centre for SKA

I can't see that I made that claim, I did link to Pawsey as an example of other systems that lie behind SKA and another comment linked to the parallel systems being launched in S.Africa.
Unpopular opinion: multiple monitors are a meme for most uses and almost everyone is better off having a single screen and using their fingers to move the viewport accross virtual desktop spaces.
I see a minor complaint about eye tracking, but people conveniently forget about the status quo. The status quo is holding large objects which are strapped on your hands and using point-and-shoot to click on items. You literally have to shoot items like on a shooting range, and hope that you hit. It's ridiculous. You can't use standard UIs with that kind of interaction, because everything is way too small.

And while you're strapped to those items you can't use keyboard or anything else with your hands. You can't scratch an itch or put something in your mouth. Your hands are occupied and you feel like you're in jail. Surprisingly you actually want to have hands.

This is the single most important innovation in Apple Vision. It gives you hands.
Body Language Pseudoscience Is Flourishing on YouTube
For one, I missed the game bar, for its convenient background recording capability. So what I did is I re-enabled the Store, and then download the game bar with it.
This is the reason why a large part of the Linux kernel is actually developed in GitHub/GitLab. Just search for `github` in the maintainers file to see who many https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
Tesla has a brand, technology, energy storage and cost MOAT over other EV companies.

Countries that consider banning Tesla due to Starlink, would be effectively holding back their EV market.
I'm not going to argue. But I've had a little time to order my thoughts so I'll expand on my comment.

This is a classic pincer manoeuvre in class warfare, where the top of the pyramid brings in a policy that extracts X from the middle class, then divvies it up at at a 10%-90% split between the lower and upper class. The majority of the benefit goes to the landlords. It is a cynical policy.

The actual policy that is good for everyone is to generate more wealth so that more of the lower class moves into the middle class. That would be policies that increase the housing stock, removal of policies that unduly favour rent seeking, or the classic land tax that nobody wealthy wants to talk about. We've been at this for centuries - redistribution is not the way to set people up for success. Giving them opportunities to work hard on valuable things is.
Only see older folk use it, I respect that, gives people different ways to express themselves
This is true. The early humans likely just ate one meal a day, and were moving a lot. They also ate when they got hungry and not necessarily when it's time for "lunch".
You can really do that, as the uncertainty from that time is gone.
It's a fantastic project - I wish it and you every success!
Hey, nice catch thank you!
Not in my experience. The walls were dark. And the window was bright occupying half of the surface of one wall. They still flew in circles.

I think it might be what other commenters are pointing out. That flies consider the brightest direction to be the sky, but if it's to the side (with respect to gravity) it messes up their navigation.
What does gluten have to do with heart health?
Some of us just want to get shit done and surprisingly there are products out there which you can exchange for money that allow you to get stuff done. I've found you can generally trade time or money to get stuff done and a lot of the time, money is much cheaper.

Recently I needed to de-duplicate 150,000 photographs from my dead father's NAS. I spent about 3-4 days trying to find an OSS solution that did the job and actually worked unsuccessfully. In the end I found some proprietary software (PhotoSweeper) that did the job in a couple of hours and cost $10
They were using humanitarian/civilian internet given freely for deadly cross border offensives. If you want military grade comms, you can buy them.
Is there ever a downvote button on posts? You can flag it, though.

If there is, then, it has to be just a few handful -- about 50 or even less!
I use this: https://github.com/rcmaehl/MSEdgeRedirect and am very satisfied.
Yeah exactly. Using reddit as a qualifier works only until everyone starts doing it. Thankfully for now we have old.reddit.com, until they deprecate that with some bullshit excuse in PR-english (who knows what will happen after the IPO). Then there's teddit, libreddit, etc., but they only work as long as reddit doesn't make a change. Feels like everything is a cat and mouse game these days.
They're still the bully. They just pretend not to be one.

They just couldn't bully TikTok privately, so they're doing it publicly now.
Just screwed 20 lightbulb sockets to a board and connected them with wire.
None, that’s why github is awful
55 Billion dollars worth less stocks also. So PE just went down!
Not doing exercise makes living worthwhile?
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jubilee_(biblical)
Low supply should mean that it's not available unless wages are a lot more above market. Which lives well with highest pay first.
So they have some insight into which customers do what. They must have, if they can see that most abuse comes from customers who pay with cash or monero.
For API responses that require valid JSON - you can make requests in JSON mode - https://platform.openai.com/docs/api-reference/chat/create#c...

Edit: url to API docs
Think GPTs can scale way better than people realize. Things where you don't always get good developer support or ecosystem (eg: GIS) and things that are ad hoc, GPTs w Code Interpreter can enable users to get value and get their work done without relying on a developer. The UX is well thought out and built with non techies in mind.
HackerNews is starting to realize that "Diversity and Inclusion" is a ham-fisted scam.
I also find this stuff fascinating, but I'm not sure Kolmogorov complexity (and therefore Solomonoff Induction) are useful models of any form of intelligence that matters in the real world. The main issue I see is that Komogorov Complexity is dominated by noise. The majority of bits in the smallest program that generates a given sequence will be devoted to reproducing arbitrary/accidental features of the sequence, rather than its computational structure. For example, if a Solomonoff Induction machine sees a data stream produced by someone flipping a coin, its model of that process will be... the data stream itself. To me, that's not intelligent behaviour. I would like an intelligent agent to "average out" the noise and say "this data stream is produced by sampling from a Bernoulli process with p = 0.5".

This is why I like Crutchfield's Epsilon Machine formalism[1]. He factorizes Kolmogorov Complexity into a noise part (Shannon Entropy) and a "computational part", which measures the structural complexity of the smallest probabilistic finite state machine that is an optimal predictor of the data sequence, under some coarse-graining. If the size of the optimal machine gets bigger and bigger the more fine-grained your measurement, then there's no finite representation of the sequence as a FSM, so you "jump up one level" to a stack machine and try again.

In the coin-flipping example above, the epsilon machine will correctly factor out all of the noise in the sequence, leaving you with a simple probabilistic model of a coin-flip process.

This procedure is also computable, and even practical: you can implement the FSM-only algorithm in a couple hundred lines of code.

[1]: https://csc.ucdavis.edu/~cmg/compmech/pubs/CalcEmergTitlePag...
No, it would allow you to row in a gym/at home while looking at a pseudo-realistic version of every major city or Niagara falls.

The reason running outside is nicer than on the treadmill is not that you get to look at nicer images. You get to smell fresh air and feel the wind on your body, you get to sometimes interact with people, you get to feel various textures under your feet, you get to move your bodies in more ways as you turn left and right etc.

Rowing outside is even more different, as you get the feel of the water currents and water splashes as well.

VR can mimic none of these things, and it comes with the massive downside of a sweaty face that you can't wipe away.
Every modern CPU can do this, but they don't, unless explicitly configured to do so. We know this because it would have been news already if they do. Network activity is suspicious. And Intel ME has been with us for 16 years now!
That's probably it. When the "sky" doesn't align with gravity they get confused.
Hey, just so you know, it seems like it's possible to get stuck during the onboarding journey (No option but to refresh the page)

I tried the app using the 'no account' option. At the end of the exercise, it asked me to sign up to see my results. Clicking on 'sign up', I filled in my details only to find out that the email apparently already is in use (clearly, I've forgotten signing up). It recommends I should try logging in instead. However, there is no way for the user to log in at this point without losing the test task and totally restarting the journey.

https://imgur.com/a/zrzhMU6

Please consider adding a way out, with either a close dialogue option or a path to login/forgotten password flow
HoloLens Demo at Microsoft Build 2015 [video]
I'd say this is intentionally missing the point. Where you draw the line between homo sapiens and the previous predecessor is subjective and largely arbitrary. The point is that we and our evolutionary ancestors have been eating most edible things we could get our hands on for as long as we go back.
The Fruitful Flaws of Strategy Metaphors
And yet the same three-letter intelligence agency hoovered up tons of phone meta data and...nothing happened legally to stop that. In fact, the whistle blower had to flee the country under a POTUS who expanded the reach of The Patriot Act.

Also, that telecommunications data was a direct dump to the NSA. This other data is for sale on the open market. Anyone with the money can buy it. Hard to imagine 4A protects that which was legally acquired and being resold.

If there's legal precedent to prevent this stuff it must be on holiday.
oh, maybe there isn't! I wouldn't know, as I can't downvote anything :p
If you're not saying it sarcastically, that's an awesome project.
Microsoft Edge is a unique type of prankware. Whoever's in charge of its development should at least be assigned, there is no excuse for how wildly user-hostile that thing is.
That's an issue with your country and one that you can easily work around by e.g. running your own recursive resolver or using one that does not care about your countries orders.

TLDs kicking out unsavory websites is global and does not have any automated workarounds.
Things I noticed yesterday that really confused people:

* The fourth amendment does not provide a right to privacy. In US federal law there is no right to privacy except for the limited provisions defined in the Privacy Act of 1974.

* The NSA is not law enforcement just as the Census Bureau is not law enforcement. Even when this was pointed out people still attempted to prove some point by comparing the NSA to police departments.

* Rights exist to protect people from government intrusion. People really want to either confuse rights with liberties or sweeping mandates applied irrespective of personal intrusions.

Your example is confusing. What does a warrant have to do with a person displaying weapons on their own lawn?
Non-paywall link: https://archive.is/yqxZa
Only if it already wasn't available in other VR/AR platforms. Hand tracking is available on Meta Quest platform (albeit not very reliable, I admit) since December 2019.
Yeah honestly, I would have a much higher opinion of such texts without the pretentious wording.
>Does a balanced diet include fast food? How much ultra-processed food?

There seems to be some confusion here. "Balanced" means balanced in terms of micro and macro-nutrients that the body needs. Not balanced in the ratios of ultra-processed junk food and healthy food.
A Brief History of the Grand Old American Tradition of Banning Books
And Microsoft/Apple/Facebook sells stuff in Europe through a company incorporated in Ireland. Does that make those companies Irish?
Exchange is an abomination. A
few
hours
trying to do something with groups was
enough to see
that for me. As a QA I would reject it until 100 or so bugs were
fixed (that I saw in a few hours of use, so maybe 10k+ bugs total?)
This looks cool and I would definitely use it as at the moment manually type "Act as ..., this is the context, ... etc" to improve the responses.

Side note - this is a single page with a few paragraphs, why is it 1.4MB in size (300kb gzipped)? It's just insane size for the amount of functionality it provides.
I am wondering: Some engineers must have worked on this type of integration. Heck, some of them are probably also reading along here.

What kind of narrative is being build around the feature to justify its implementation?
There are some in hints in TFA:

"MLC posits that the Mandelbrot set isn’t just connected; it’s locally connected — no matter how much you zoom in on the Mandelbrot set, it will always look like one connected piece. For instance, a circle is locally connected. An extremely fine-toothed comb, on the other hand, is not. Though the entire shape is connected, if you skip over the shaft and instead zoom in on the tips of some of its teeth, you’ll just see a bunch of separate line segments."
Looking behind what I have seen since I started paying attention in the 1980's, as it looks today, resold under new marketing terms, resold by newly founded startups that are disrupting the ecosystem.
Perhaps one should say that SQL "does not enforce relations". One can create systems that enforce uniqueness throughout and avoid nulls. My recollection is that Peoplesoft was one such--it used single spaces where some might have used nulls, and the tables had unique indexes defined on them. But it has been many years since I dealt with it.
Is there any evidence of pixelated text damaging eyes?
That's what they did up to now but that doesn't work anymore. Starlink direct to cell works with any unmodified smartphone. They can't ban all of those and throw their country back 20 years :)
Thank you very much for catching the "please" field and the typo. Just fixed them.

More templates are definitely in the todo list. If you can propose any, it would be great :)
> Uploading Binaries and execute them

Agreed! It's seriously overlooked right now. I threw in typst (a document formatter like LaTeX) and was surprised that it worked [1]. Startup times for the sandbox are a bit slow though with about 8-10 seconds startup time.

I also saw that they just added a beta for mentioning custom GPTs with `@`. I really hope these things will move forward more. It shows that there is still a need for back end engineers, but you can mostly let LLMs handle the front end.

[1]: https://huijzer.xyz/posts/openai-gpts/
Indeed, indexing changing probabilities is very unintuitive for most people. Here's another fun one.

There's two coins on the table that you don't see. The only information provided is that

a) one of them is tails
b) the left one is tails

What is the probability of both being tails?

It's 1/3 in (a) and 1/2 in (b). The reasoning being:

1. At first both HH, HT, TH and TT are all equaly likely.
2. In case (a) we discard HH as an option, but in case (b) we discard *both* HH and HT.