skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The request looks like "https://neal.fun/api/infinite-craft/pair?first=Phoenix&secon..." so it's probably typically caching the combination of phoenix+seeds but if there is no cache entry it would use llama to make up something. If there's a lot of attention on the site the llm service might be down or overloaded. And given the exponential/factoral (?) amount of combinations this may be reached surprisingly quickly. Just a guess.

As an aside, the game is technically interesting, being a really simple example of using llm generation for game mechanics. But it is not engaging at all and feels nonsensical to me, especially when compared to little alchemy https://littlealchemy2.com/.

I'm not trying to be negative and this isn't a dig on creativity of the wonderful Neal but more points to the immaturity of llms applied to games, maybe to my overexposure to chatgpt, and maybe a prediction that human touch will always be required to make something entertaining. I'm curious how llms will fit into an engaging game experience in the future.
Why isn’t a parking space specifically attached to a residence than bought it? That’s the reason for the fights right there.

Letting the developer maximize profits also lets residents choose residences without parking spots, to save money.
Rather than address these points line-by-line, there is a bigger issue at play: a difference in understanding (or opinion?) over what the Overton window is. This is particularly evident in that you cite Europe as 9.3% of the world as relevant to defining it.

The Overton window mainly classifies the kind of ideas that are "politically acceptable" on the stage for which it's defined, using terms ranging from "unthinkable" to "radical" to "popular" to "policy". On the world stage, I would argue that the most left-leaning of European countries define the left end of the window (given that they have enacted left policies), and the most right-leaning countries (e.g. Singapore) define the right end of the window. It's not a matter of proportion.

That said, I agree that the global window is rapidly shifting right, as in your example of France.

Okay, point-by-point:

> Military

I agree that the military does not neatly fit into a spectrum which applies well on the global window of left/right. Reaching instead for political philosophy rather than political practice, I think it's better to introduce the 2-dimensional political compass to understand this rather than relying on the 1-dimensional left/right spectrum: war is more favored by authoritarian politics (which is to say politics that value authority, rather than necessarily repressive regimes, which are totalitarian). I would also say that authoritarianism tends to be more popular on the right, though the Soviet Union offers a clear counter-example. This issue is messy indeed. But, generally speaking, I think that American leftists (as a distinct group from liberals or Democrats) are not in favor of war, whereas everyone right of and including Democrats are generally pro-military and weakly or strongly in favor of American imperialism.

> Social justice

"Social justice" is ill-defined here, and I don't really think Democrats push for it. A positive "social justice", as I understand it, might, for instance, consider reparations, which I don't think any contemporary Democrats have pushed for. Democrats adopt a more equality-oriented (not equity-oriented, which I would argue is more aligned with what "social justice" calls for) approach to social issues, outside of certain matters like ostensible support for affirmative action.

But, I don't think this is the thread to define and argue over whatever "social justice" means. You can send me an email if you want to clear that up.
My personal opinion is a bit complicated.

I'm a socialist that thinks that companies should be transitioned into public ownership once they grow big enough.

It fixes the issue you describe in addition to the myriad of other issues associated with ever-increasing privatizion of what should be the commons.
Maybe. I've never taken one and only one client ever asked me if i can take one.

Tbh I think you can still pay by (local) cheque even here but you need to go to the bank and sign something in blood to get them. And not sure if anyone actually takes them any more.

They may have been used for B2B with 30-60-90 day payment terms 15-20 years ago.
The Poet of Logic Programming (2020)
I'd say it's a really bad time to be graduating as a computer science major. As far as a few years from now, I always think of the words of Yogi Berra - "It's hard to make predictions, especially about the future". No one knows really. Honestly, if I had things to do over, I'd look harder at medicine, likely a PA type career track; who knows, maybe I still will.
But Jay-Z is also ultra-corporate, so it fits?
> Some customers had complained that pegging their claims to prices in late 2022 would cause them to miss out on a hike in prices for digital assets. Dorsey ruled that bankruptcy rules require a company’s debts to be tied to the date it filed for court protection.

TLDR You get the value as of 2022, not today.
It looks pretty nice, but would seem a bit cringe to call your own app "Gorgeous" in a Show HN, like calling yourself a 10 on a dating profile, or introducing your kid as beautiful. I'd personally just leave it out and use something like "Open Source RSS app for Android/iOS"
“My understanding is that citations are used to avoid having to argue for the truth value of a proposition, not to give credit, nor to establish some kind of chain of trust.”

People do this in science, politics, and church. It’s a call to act only (or mostly) on that person’s testimony. An act of faith. It’s both a red flag to watch for and a necessary aid for people.

A red flag because it’s often a sign of fallacy. I default on looking that person up along with folks that might disagree with them. Every success adds credibility. Failures mean I’ll default in a different direction if I hear their name come up. Might even dig into what other claims they have which are spreading.

Those sources who keep getting the job done in specific areas can graduate from red flag to reliable enough to default on. Only in that area for claims not to far from what they’ve been good at. If outside or a big claim, still double check. Also, be able to provide verifiable evidence of why you trust the source.
The article makes it clear this isn’t about rent control.

The concern is market manipulation via artificially reducing supply and similar tactics not the government picking a price. Collusion is far easier with housing because nobody can flood the market so you don’t need every participant to agree.

In Seattle, for example, ProPublica found that 10 property managers oversaw 70% of all multifamily apartments in one neighborhood — and every single one used pricing software sold by RealPage.

“Setting prices with an algorithm is no different from doing it over cigars and whiskey in a private club,”
That information is about a decade out of date. In practice a bunch of new stuff is using it from the as yet unreleased Fuchsia OS and major products are being rewritten to take advantage of it (Google Earth comes to mind).
Banks can capitalize on the shift to employee-owned businesses
I'm surprised to see that this whole thing seems to be implemented in typescript and css, even though it lists a bunch of specific platforms/desktop environments like Windows 11, KDE, etc. I guess it's for use in Electron or something?

Grepping through the code I found no references to aria or roles or title, which makes me assume it's completely inaccessible to screen readers or other assistive tools. It would be cool if the README called that out at least a little bit. It also makes me wonder whether it can be used via keyboard or gamepad instead of just mouse, since pie menus are pretty analog-stick friendly and fairly keyboard-unfriendly. (Incidentally, Windows 11 has pretty comprehensive gamepad support, at least for apps using the UWP/WinUI stack. If you're on Win11 and have an xbox controller, try it sometime - the settings window is a good spot to mess with it.)
https://archive.is/NZMCw
Young HN posters by the sound of it.
> Do you think that the idea of AI poisoning generalizes, though (even if it would require very different algorithms)

Yes, these are all different classes of adversial attacks and I don't think any model could resist everything, assuming you have direct access to the weights (although that's generally not a hard requirement)

> or do you think that some models may be "safe"?

I don't think any single set of model weights can be "safe". I suspect adding more adversaial data to the training, particularly of the text encoders might make them more resistent.

I unfortunately don't have high hopes that artists have a great chance of defending their work with these methods, nearly all of the existing ones are easily evadable, and I suspect more adversarial resistant methods will be implemented.

On top this, I think resisting adversial inputs will be a focus for many, not because they want to maliciously copy data, but because of the implications of multimodal models being attacked. Imagine a billboard that will be recognized as instructions to do XYZ (has been demoed with GPT4V)
Evolution of UNC4990: Uncovering USB Malware's Hidden Depths
I enjoyed the game! There was a whole lot of civilizational collapse due to food-borne illness. Maybe throw in a comet strike, or more varied geological changes (flipping magnetic poles, ice-ages, tsunami, sea-level rise, etc...).

It's incredible to think about how many cataclysms humanity has lived through, yet also how many we have been lucky to avoid (so far...)
Right,

You also have to picture the other perspective. People in Europe are so spoiled with 5 lines of code to do secure transactions our eyes almost fall out if we mistakenly think of doing business in the US.

I'm sure it looks far more absurd than it is because we are unfamiliar with the system. We have no configuration where the customer gets the product without payment.
I wouldn't call it misleading because you made an assumption. It is multi-platform as advertised.
this is how microsoft's remote desktop protocol works (RDP) but apple never invested in their implementation of something similar, relying on vnc to just send images of the entire screen.

the way RDP works is the code to actually render a window or desktop gets sent over the network and is ONLY rendered on the remote client.

this is not only more efficient but also allows for fun things like rendering remote apps directly on your local desktop mixed in with your normal local windows
No doubt, but somewhere between here and you dieing, I would assume that you semi-continuously revisit the progress per time and effort you put in and what you are getting out of it (maybe not so explicitly), and reconsider if "mastery" of that topic and as by your rules, is still a reasonable and worthwhile goal?

Either you never change your mind on what you master, or there is a implicit process by which it is changed, and I would be very surprised to learn that time/effort/progress do not play a role in that calculation.
Given that the lag time is 4-5 years, I am not sure that this can be accurately answered. When I went to university, everyone was pushing me towards oil and gas as that was the hot thing when I went. By the time I graduated, that job market had collapsed. In 2006, finance and banking was a no brainer career choice.
Because presumably it's your property and they are interfering with market prices. If the gov wants to make them free they can, if they buy your property and through taxes make it available to indigent people. That's not something you should shoulder.
Dumping is a lot more effective method of protectionism than what we are currently doing.

Why do you support the Jones act?
The price of a car itself is significant, there may well be zero utilization in an area where residents simply don’t own cars.
> They sound more liberal than half of today's Democrats.

As classic liberals, they actually were.
Why would you put this out into the universe?
I have never seen a menu like this before, but seeing the video, I think I would like it. Looks like a very fast way to find whatever you're looking for.
Which is why people are talking about moving companies out of Delaware.

Why would an executive want to work at a company if after he achieves amazing results, his compensation can Ben clawed back, due to a missing one sentence disclaimer on a proxy statement?
The position on SB35 was taken by CCHO, which is not a wacky fringe organization but instead of the most influential progressive policymaking bodies around housing policy.

I think you offered charity to the point of being misleading. There is only one side who wants to make housing more affordable. The charitable view of progressive policy making is that they reject any demand for San Francisco to be a commercial center and want to preserve the lifestyle, built environment, and composition of residents to what it was in the 80s.
A prior recent discussion:[0] (322 points, 4 days ago, 227 comments)

[0]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39152306
I think I'll wait for an F-Droid release before trying this: https://github.com/msasikanth/twine/issues/38

I currently use Nextcloud News, but it's a bit slow (especially with my 50k+ unread items), and doesn't support dynamically ranked feeds, only chronological ones. It's nice having read status synced across devices, though.
Musk the worlds most hyped "capital allocator", a phrased increasingly parroted by billionaires and aspiring VC-bros as their raison d'etre to excuse bad behavior.
Did you mean to put a comma after 'wonder'?
Me too (tomorrow), but it's addressing the symptom, not the cause. I'm at risk for open-angle glaucoma due to my long eyeballs.
It's not so much that they're "Fixing" prices, but that so many companies/businesses are all using the same algorithm. Man, if only they knew how many industries do this exact same thing. Services like this exist for just about every market, from housing price estimation, to salaries, to magic the gathering cards.

What they're effectively saying is that "Services that estimate rent prices should be illegal."

OK. Good luck with that.
The internet and routers doesn't do anything magic about internal network ranges, it's just a route like any other. What matters is how you configure the router and the routing protocols.
An ISP can have internal routes advertised between their routers, at your edge you typically filter to only advertise your assigned ranges/supernets, ie 101.0.0/16 rather than all the small subnets they split it up to. They could also decide that internal ranges are filtered everywhere in their network.
I think it is indicative that not only is he an asshole, he's a asshole with violent tendencies.

I mean, I and everyone I know have become very emotional and ranted about things every so often, but never has expressing a desire to see people die a slow death entered into it. That he did says something important to know about him.
The first questionnaire was given to us in school and they asked about our classes, whether we planned to go to university, things like that. It was long but the school just gave it to us like it was a test (except you had to fill in little bubbles on a form which none of us had ever done before).

There were a couple after HS graduation asking about if I was in university or working, married, income, job, stuff like that. Then I had a gap (was out of the country) and after they asked things like marital status, kids, work, health life satisfaction, etc. Mostly pretty much the same, of course, because how else do you track changes over time. But it's not worth asking 16 yo about marital status -- 99.99% of the answers will be the same. And in the 80s you didn't ask about sexual orientation.

The somewhat recent blood test was the first time I'd been asked that. I presume that will continue through end of life. (Coincidentally an old classmate died last week...basically so far I've only known about a half dozen, definitely less than 10, people my age who have died. But I expect that curve to start bending upwards).
> For that matter, who's going to replicate a condensed matter experiment for which a grad student took three years to build the apparatus at a cost of $250,000?

If the results are interesting to anyone and there is more science to do, people will eventually replicate (or fail to do so, like with Majoranas). If not, then why would we care about replication?
XML is a disaster here all of its own, but is at least unambiguous at the parser level.

JSON says "if your document does this, parser behavior is undefined". So you need to declare that the parser used should behave in particular ways.

Both are best solved a robust specification and supplemental test vectors. If you define meta rules (e.g. JSON parsers must either fail or return the last object property), you still retain the value you hoped for by using something like JSON or XML in the first place.
https://www.wired.com/story/taiwan-epicenter-of-world-myopia...
The backend is probably overloaded right now. Wait some and try again.
any longitudinal study by definition has to start relatively early.
> The "magic", as I understand it, of the 192.x.x.x network is that the Internet "knows" to not route it.

The Internet, at the end of the day, is not about technology, but an agreement: I send you traffic and you move it around, and you send me traffic and I move it around.

We all agree to use the same protocols (IP, BGP) and so can talk to each other, and the moving of bits can either be on a paid (ISPs) basis or non-paid (IXPs) basis.

As part of this everyone agrees to not move certain addresses (RFC 1918), and if they come across any, they filter/drop them as soon as possible.

Another part of this agreement is various vendors agree to the same rules, so your home firewall/router (Linksys, D-Link, Asus) acts in certain ways, which includes making sure that any traffic from (e.g.) 192.168/16 does not go out the interface labelled "WAN". (Though if it does, your ISP also agrees to filter it.)
I don't think you can infer someone's age and skin colon from that post.
That is actually really really good! Thank you for building this.
Intel has made a lot of mistakes, but I'm reluctant to bash a company that's contributed such a vast amount to human civilization. The insights and innovations pushed forward by Intel in its heyday have delivered incalculable benefits to billions of humans and will benefit billions more for the rest of human history. Their recent history is checkered but the overall grade for Intel is A+ : staggering success.
>There were concepts I was trying to build up to that simply didn't exist.

They may not, but that you didn't find them precisely where you expected doesn't really convince me that they don't.
Agreed. Miniflux is rock solid and I use Reeder on my iOS devices, which actually is gorgeous and looks native on iOS. Have used NetNewsWire as well.
A lot of people tend to not accept this plain fact that for-profits must maximize profit. It's literally illegal not to do so.

https://www.wakeforestlawreview.com/2012/04/our-continuing-s...
Which to me shouldn't be that surprising given that we know neurons seek to connect with other neurons based on activation patterns, and that the brain stays plastic into old age.

I've seen similar with movement. Once they break a hip or something which severely reduces their physical activity level, cognitive abilities usually go downhill fast. Part of that is probably cardio-related, but I've long thought it was related to lack of stimulus.

Just doing the dishes or feeling the wind creates a ton of sensations, and may trigger memories, that sitting in a chair watching daytime TV just won't.
This is like that exercise where people make a scale model of the solar system using a bowling ball for the Sun and a peppercorn for the Earth, and realize that, at that scale, the Earth is 77 feet away from the Sun, the Earth and Moon are only 2.5 inches apart, and Pluto is still half a mile away.
> The second difference is that the iPhone foretold how people were going to use phones in the future.

I don't know if I buy that. Watch the original iPhone announcement. Steve spent most of the time talking about what a great phone it was and how much better voicemail is. Connecting to the internet was tacked on to the end of the presentation.

"Now, what’s the killer app?
The killer app is making calls!"

I don't think that's foretelling how people were going to use phones in the future.
At what point is “he had opinions” turn to “ugh this guy does awful things”?
Aptiv to cut stake in robotaxi tech firm Motional, stop funding
The Great Decline
But they'd also be riddled with bizarre nonsense like Flamethrower+Statue = Venus.
I don't think he/she is talking about that. I think the question is about the probabilities of each of the three options you lay out. You lay it out as though it's obvious the three are equally likely possibilities in the urn. That's only true using uniform distribution to generate the number of red(/green) in the urn.

The contents of the urn would still be a set, but if the contents were initially drawn from a binomial distribution, calling out the possible combinations is required for purposes of counting, ie figuring the probability of each combination.

People intuitively know that there are more ways to have two green and one red than three reds. That maps to most things in the real world too. This question sort of tricks people.
mDNS drafts actually date back to around 2000, which AFAICT precedes Microsoft's use.
They are looking at what competitors are charging before setting their own prices. That should be illegal?

Does anyone think that software developers should be prohibited by law from looking at what other software developers are charging before deciding how much money to ask for? I don't believe that. Why would it be illegal for landlords to do it?

The article shows no evidence of price fixing. It shows companies doing absolutely normal things that every company does in order to determine what price to charge. Yes, that means looking at what other companies charge for the same service. Yes, for landlords it sometimes makes sense to accept a higher vacancy rate in exchange for higher rents. Sometimes it would also make sense to accept a lower vacancy rate in exchange for lower rents. Yes, landlords are going to want to look at market data to determine what the vacancy rate is that makes them the most money.
such a dystopian outcome that peoples DNA and medical information is just going to be sold?
If those no-code AI crap host production service well enough, then I think a bulk of industries running software via that will handle it fine. Obviously the first major production incident caused by it might shift the scales. But functional-ish code minus SWE egos and pay demands? That is appealing to the money and ops people who run and own companies.
It's not just Apple, I had to fix a brand new install of Debian the other day to turn off mDNS to get my local names resolving. Seeing it in Debian was enough to make me wonder if my frustration at Apple about this was misplaced and maybe I just need to reconfigure my network somehow.
It's not a huge market. I usually have a queue of clients, but both deal flow and actual scheduling are wildly variable--sometimes I'll go without income for six months or more. I've considered hiring one or two people, but I couldn't offer the kind of stability people need from an employer. I do subcontract though! Editing, legal, finance, occasional code, that sort of thing.

There's a lot of folks out there who can do basic testing work with Jepsen. I've taught... I dunno, maybe a few hundred people directly in Jepsen workshops. A couple people have worked alongside me, and I'm sure lots more have learned from the docs online. Writing a report is a more involved problem--certainly not intractable, but for me it involves testing, experiment design, lots of reading, doc review, writing, editing, finding reviewers, and of course all the business stuff.