skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not per se.

What do you mean? Not in theory? Theory doesn't matter, because in reality people abuse power if they have it, as they do with that power.

> Why must a government not bow to a violent mob? Because it would end democracy, if they would. It would mean, give right to those people, who can get the most determinated hooligans.

That sounds apocolyptic. There have been many protests in democracies, many with some violence, and the democracies survive. What democracy has fallen to violent protestors?
Walter Shawlee, the sovereign of slide rules, has died
Barudu?
I don't consider "there is value in not always having a point, but meandering" to be itself a point, mainly because you don't give a reason to suppose that that is the case or a reasonable case to consider. It seems itself to be rather meandering, circling a value and a raison d'etre without specifying either. It's the specification that makes it worth considering, as adults do know.
Yeah you’re right that when it comes to execution the actual cutting of programs rarely happens. This past year has been the first time we’ve seen a GOP that’s actually forcing cuts in my lifetime. It’s also worth noting this has been at the behest of a minority of the party and that most of them do seem okay with the status quo. Still these politicians are elected on platforms of doing this it’s just that

A. A lot of them definitely are grifters

B. The ones that aren’t have to deal with political realities that make slashing income easier than slashing spending.
Sure... he didn't make copies or let anyone look at them... Can some ONE say double standard? Maybe they are DRM protected? Or is that only for pesant's media
Sigh.

https://www.vox.com/identities/2017/2/7/14503144/white-histo...
Other people have said it in this thread, but I think your experience is being severely clouded by Oracle. Postgres, MySql, and all have the `TEXT` datatype which are variable length (though with some upper bound)
This is surely in the training data.
Don't install the Gemini android app, it'll break Google assistant and you won't be able to operate Nest devices from your phone.
I did took my kid to Disney Sea recently. They had some rides you could sign up for free on, and some that required money. But the dollar to yen is strong, so I guess it wasn’t that expensive. At Disney world we’ve always done genie+, which still doesn’t get us on some rides available only via virtual queue. Still, a ,I h better experience then waiting in lines at universal, who have a much more expensive fast fast system.
This seems like an odd kneejerk to a valid problem that may prevent legitimate* uses of the tech - my doctors automated ‘press 1 to speak to a doctor’ could be improved by an AI voice like siri.

The problem is misuse of AI to impersonate a real person, and failing to disclose that the content you are about to see/hear/read has been autogenerated.

The mechanism used might solve one issue, but has turned the entire thing into a game of whack-a-mole.

*I use the term legitimate, but note I absolutely despise the use of online chatbots and imagine I’ll hate voice ones as much if not more.
The real question is: will the new CEO start promoting Firefox as it should have been since the beginning, or Google money is too important to piss off them with actual competition?
If it’s a boy, I would just let you know that he’s going to pee everywhere during diaper changes. Not all the time—only when you least expect it. Keep your cool and try not to leave stuff downstream that you wouldn’t want pee on.
Well I think it’s interesting to the extent that it optimizes the solution for a different piece of hardware, the TPU. Their results are also applicable to GPUs. Since the problem is highly parallelizable, we might expect a viable model to quickly approximate a more accurate evaluation, and perhaps even make up for it in volume.
This comment is out of touch just based on the first sentence. The US is a continent spanning nation and half the country does not live in a city.
Same here, and if you look at the output of whoami /priv you'll find that using luke's sudo provides exactly the same priviledge escalation as 'run as administrator' does
I find my sibling comments amusing as a pair. https://i.imgur.com/rUOrKGn.png
The whole too smart thing seems so arbitrary to me.

Like this animal can solve a puzzle thus it can't be farmed. The other animal can't. But if we scare/hurt them they both react in fear/pain.

IQs are we talking here? Suduko? Puzzle? Open a door? Use a tool? Care for its youngs? Stand under roof when it rains?

I can wrap my head around both stances (eat animals freely or full veg only)...bit this arbirary line in sand approach I struggle with. May as well go with an arbitrary "this one is cute so we won't eat it" approach
That is not the Monty Hall problem, it is a trick question based on the Monty Hall problem. It's a reasonable test, and I see GPT-4 recognizes the problem AS WRITTEN, and perhaps "the Dumb Monty Hall problem" is some generally accepted standard that I haven't encountered before.

edit: "AS WRITTEN"
While its performance against humans is very impressive indeed, its performance against engines is somewhat less so:

> Our agent’s aggressive style is highly successful against human opponents and achieves a grandmasterlevel Lichess Elo of 2895. However, we ran another instance of the bot and allowed other engines to play it. Its estimated Elo was far lower, i.e., 2299. Its aggressive playing style does not work as well against engines that are adept at tactical calculations, particularly when there is a tactical refutation to a suboptimal move.
I’d really love to see a rigorous explanation of renormalization, plus why it doesn’t work for gravity, with no handwaving. As a non-physicist, that has always been the point where I hit a wall on traditional treatments of QFT.
Just pointing out, New Zealand, Canada, Australia, UK all have the same monarch. And perhaps the situation between them and e.g. the US, with its five eyes program, is actually closer to something that could occur between China/Taiwan.
Heat pumps outsold gas furnaces in 2023
Yes, just in time for a Super Bowl commercial: Smaht Bahd
To be fair, the user's passwords were gonna get exploited anyways using the real LastPass anyways.
Im talking more going from Chicago to small town central Illinois. You’re biased and assuming everyone who travels lives in, leaves from and arrives at a city. You assume everything else is fly over country instead of most of the countries land and half its population.
This doesn’t go to the employees
'All 1s' has history at MS...
If you ever can't find a pacifier just go buy a pack of 12 on Amazon, there's no reason to stress over a pacifier. Also get the baby used to a brand you have several of.

More importantly, enjoy the early days because the rate of change will never be this high again. The first week is special. The first month is special. Form as many memories as you can. The 8th year and the 9th year are mostly the same. Time will take those early days from you, you can't stop it. Complacency will take the later years from you, but you can stop that one, mostly.
Without more battery breakthroughs, I think you would almost have to do some kind of aftermarket/custom conversion. To get the kind of lightweight car you prefer, you need to limit the battery weight too much. Meanwhile, the mass market still has range anxiety.

Look at some of those EV cars setup for famous hill climbing races, where they plan out the amount of charge they need for one short race.

Then, work backwards from there what tradeoffs you would make to extend range beyond this one sprint. More battery weight for more stored charge? Less power to optimize the motor and electronics efficiency? Aero optimized for low drag instead of downforce/stability? Tires optimizes for low rolling resistance instead of sticky cornering?...
Just pointing out that this is a really good tweet by the co-creator of sudo: https://twitter.com/BobCoggeshall/status/1755681410596192604
I was once told that some automated dialing systems will listen for, and hang up/flag the number as another automated system, if you wait four seconds, say hello very clearly, and then say nothing else.

It… seems to work?
Then look up the missed number and call them back if you think it might be legitimate?
Polish mint creates first "flying coin"
Haven’t Mozilla pivoted continually for years? At this point I’m unsure if I’d call it ‘pivoting’ rather than ‘continually turning in circles toward whatever the newest shiniest fad is’.

I truly hope this stops with new management.
Of people who got exonerated through DNA testing during 1989-2020, 29% involved a false confession (https://innocenceproject.org/dna-exonerations-in-the-united-...).
It's really not that hard. At the end of the day it's just a human making quick decisions hundreds of times a day.
I've had more than my share of rejected updates that get approved after a re-submission with no change.
Not to be confused with the space program, the Winklevoss's brothers crypto exchange...
Ironic, didn't we find out they had patented sudo a decade ago?

https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2009/11/micro...
“Important Science Man explains why you shouldn’t question the official narrative”
> The special counsel's report says that it would be difficult to convict the president of improper handling of files because "at trial, Mr Biden would likely present himself to a jury, as he did during our interview of him, as a sympathetic, well-meaning, elderly man with a poor memory".

By all accounts he was interrogated for 5 hours, provided lots of details about documents he had misplaced a decade ago, and only seemed to forget some dates. Am I wrong to think that these lines in a report seem pretty unprofessional given this is a pretty typical outcome of any interrogation? Was his public perception under investigation?
Ask HN: Anyone feels tech has become way less interesting/cool/exciting?
Watching old episodes of Computer Chronicles, I feel like something went wrong in tech and made it a lot less interesting. Some thoughts why:

* Feels like almost everyone is in it primarily for the money now. Sure, money has always been an incentive, but I feel like before it was more of a side-effect rather than the primary goal. Tech was just cool - whether it was making Flash games, or writing a Play Station emulator, making a video game, or even making some interactive Web 2.0 web page. Stuff that others would put out was cool - messengers/BBS' to talk to people around the world, maps, even GMail and Facebook. Demoscene was a thing.

* Related to the point above, but most tech now feels like it is contributing to a dystopia. Anything 'social' is there with the goal of manipulating you, whether by ads or astroturfing. Any productivity tool is there not to free up your time, but get you to work even harder overall. Entertainment content is overoptimized to keep you hooked and spending your money and attention, but it is empty enough that feels like little of it will be remembered in 50 years time (while there are tons of great movies and music from 50+ years ago, and I envy the people that get to play Monkey Island or Deus Ex for the first time today)

* It all just feels serious now. Can hardly talk to anyone online without them trying to somehow advance their career, 'network', build a following, or fight some political war.

* The complexity has gone way up. It is very difficult to know your system inside out, build something cool by yourself. In many cases you actually have very little control over your own system.

Am I just getting old and people felt this way in the 90s and 2000s too? Or has tech objectively gotten less cool?
USD 0 is perfectly fine given he owns a lot of TSLA stock already.
People arguing that would be happy if no animals were farmed at all.

The opposite argument is equally dumb, you wouldn't legalize crack because beer is a drug and beer is legal
You don't. You just harness what they have and direct it while you can.

But one way to try is to wholly hand off greenfield projects within your company. The whole idea of a "startup within a company" is fundamentally flawed, but you can attempt it anyway.
I’ve never heard the term sealioning, that’s super useful! Yeah I would file this bit under that umbrella, as serious fact-finders would (in this case) do a 10 second search themselves, whereas “prove libsoftiktok is malignant here on this page, the comments section of a hacker news post” isn’t a hallmark of good faith engagement.
Ah I always wondered why it was so much slower than closed source video editors. Didn't realise it is doing everything on the CPU!
We know the model is approximating the results of a search. We don’t know whether it is actually searching.

At the most basic level, the model is just giving probabilities for the next moves, or in the case of value approximation, guessing which bucket the value falls into.
Stanford Lithium Metal Battery Breakthrough Could Double the Range of EVs
A certain tongue-in-cheek email provider [0] uses . (a dot) for this purpose, i.e. username.anything@domain.tld. Spammers could remove the distinguishing part here too, but they can't be bothered to keep a list of all the conventions used by different providers, so I think it should work pretty well.

(Personally I use a dedicated catch-all domain now, and the username is the distinguishing part – try to remove that!)

[0]: https://cock.li/, they do have SFW domains though
I know nothing of this person or Mozilla internals, but I could imagine a company heading towards bankruptcy, that was avoided while still losing market-share. In this situation the role of CEO could become more important as market-share decreases and the situation becomes more precarious.

Now if that person caused the downward slide to begin with, that's a different conversation. Again, I don't know the internals of Mozilla well enough to make an educated argument one way or the other.
I like this even more that I’ve read that. That sounds like it makes this agent a much more human-like player than the perfect calculator traditional chess engines. It may end up being more fun for humans to play against if it’s strong but has holes in its play.
Seems like a horribly convoluted way to manage permissions. Also I have never heard anyone suggest you shouldn't use a local admin account. That's the exact problem UAC was meant to solve.

Having used an unprivileged Windows account, all I can say is no thanks. It's a huge burden if you do anything even slightly more complex than Facebook and email.

As a blanket policy at work, all programmers are admins, everyone else is not. Except when someone is doing a task that requires elevation every five minutes. I'm the only admin on site and it's an unbelievable waste of my time to sit next to someone so I can put in my password every time they click a box. We make those users admins because there's simply no other way to manage it.
I have a friend who would always answer the phone with a robotic monotone "READY" like a C64 BASIC prompt. It made people think he was a robot, and confused the real robots.
Modern automated data miner (scrapper)
It is not. LLMs do not just memorize; they also extrapolate, otherwise they would be useless. Just like any ML model.
Yes of course (syntactically it is just float[] getEmbeddings(text)) but are the numbers close to what OpenAI would produce? I assume no.
If buying is not owning, then piracy is not stealing
It's a JSON API... JSON API's tend to be more... 'flexible'.

To consume them, just assume that every field is optional and extra fields might appear at any time.
Does anyone know if this is what is used for Cloudfront Functions ? (Not lambda@edge)
"Understands" is too strong of a word, more that it recognizes the problem as written. Here's yet a slight variation - just as simple - but changed enough it now is wrong.

https://chat.openai.com/share/22a9027f-a2c1-428a-94a2-8fd918...
I'm just saying the problem is basically systemic. Powerful people in charge are going to do what they are going to do. Very few will voluntarily place restriction upon themselves even for their own good. The person that sent the money probably did it because the CFO had a history of acting like a child/irrationally/short fuse.

Very few CEOs are going to make people feel comfortable telling them no.

My anecdotes were to illustrate its widespread if I've personally encountered it multiple times. Also just to entertain.
This is actually on the agenda for this series! (At least for some value of "rigorous".) The question of why gravity isn't renormalizable was one of the questions that made me want to dig into this project in the first place.

For what it's worth, from all the various nonrigorous explanations in physics texts, the one that worked the best for me was the one in "Quantum Field Theory Lectures of Sidney Coleman".
I often think the same about people I (get to) know
As a tiny piece of advice: keep earmuffs or earplugs or noise-canceling earbuds around — sometimes babies are loud, and it’s easier to stay calm and far less unpleasant with appropriate PPE on hand.
Well it does say "up to", that's pretty easy to prove with a niche contrived example
One time I was fly fishing with a baby on my back sleeping in his carrier pack. I managed to hook him the back of the head. Plucked the fly out and kept fishing, the kid did not even wake up! Kids are tougher then you expect.

The "Elimination Communication" thing is awesome if you can get it working. One baby it worked 90% and the other about 60%.

When baby gets to about 3 try "Teach Your Child to Read in 100 Easy Lessons", it is not easy but it is simple and it works.
It's just "hanging around" or so. This kind of article is strange, they take some extremely mundane word and make it seem like it's some mystical foreign concept.
What Does "With Continuation" Mean? (2020)
Burroughs is the most visual author I know, but neither he nor the reader are fully in control of what's painted. He has the process. I think he works for people with a rich inner monologue, which is leveraged against you. Dredge up some odd childhood memories, rotate some shapes, and then give him another go.

Or you can read "Junky" or "Queer."
Biometric SIM registration is spreading across Africa: Is it the right move?
I mean in the old days (like 20 years ago) people liked to spend their free time at the mall, so...
China sinks deeper into deflation as prices fall at fastest rate in 15 years
Thanks, this looks like a good read!
Do you also not have a problem with people taking micro naps while driving? Or very briefly checking their texts

All it takes is a fraction of a second
Containers and first-party isolation in FF are my killer features. Echoing your comments to the GP post, that didn't exist a decade ago and is genuinely one of the best improvements they've made in that time.
oh this one is really good
This caught me completely by surprise. I never would have imagined that a grocery chain, even Trader Joe's, would have a publicly-accessible API endpoint for its current product catalog.

I wonder how the author even found the endpoint! Is this at risk of Trader Joe's noticing and moving to require an auth token? I can't imagine the openness being intentional, at least outside that brief period of techno-optimism in the late 2000s where it seemed like everyone was offering data sources to build into your Twitter bot.

Possible secondary application: could this GraphQL endpoint potentially be used to determine when a product is being discontinued?
Big George Hotz enjoyer but lately I’ve been trying to catch every stream from this guy “tokyospliff” - https://youtube.com/@tokyospliff

He does graphics programming, writing his own game engine from in C++ using OpenGL. The vibe in his streams is really something else, very interesting guy.
That seems strange to me.

I mean: I think it is perfectly OK to have a policy that requires real people to make real phone calls for some things -- especially things that might not fit into automated systems.

But I think it's very bizarre that these real people would not also leave a voicemail message stating the purpose of the call.

(There's tons of reasons for people to not answer the phone that extend beyond screening unknown numbers.

Like: I might be happy to answer the phone for a strange number but I'm crawling around under my car and my hands are covered in greasy road funk. Or I'm with a client. Or I'm at work and my boss is an overbearing prick. Or...)
I get your point. Acquiring the data is the hard part, and they cheated to get it. It's chicken and egg indeed.
Nah I don't think anyone really eats babies. Never heard of it.

The texture doesn't have enough bite to it and the flavour is really bland.
Living in a shotgun house has convinced me this effect is very real. When I have to walk from the front to the back, I have developed the habit of saying what I'm going to do as I walk through each of the five doors I have to pass through; this puts my intent into a different mental pipeline, that's much more resistant to being flushed out when I pass through a door.

If my husband is at home then he tends to get in on the act, leading to conversations like "I should set a timer for five minutes." "You should set a timer for five minutes!" "I'm gonna set a timer for five minutes." "Didja set that timer for five minutes?" "I just set a timer for five minutes!" when I'm crossing from the kitchen to the living room and leaving some water to boil.
Quick everyone submit an update README pr
I was about to say this. Walking into a different room can vastly change your entire experience for the better (or worse)
What happens when one of the people to whom you gave your number shares their contacts with some app?
I don't need to show that. It's obvious to everyone except you... and Apple's app reviewers. Maybe you're one of them?

Your view is very strange though, because if the app were not a scam, then why would the developer voluntarily pull the app from the store?
Good riddance. I simply cannot trust a CEO of a company who says outright that we need more deplatforming on the Internet.

She needed to go. I wish it would’ve been sooner.

https://blog.mozilla.org/en/mozilla/we-need-more-than-deplat...
It is an extension for Firefox, but one created by Mozilla. It's official in that sense, but it does seem a little strange it's not included by default.

https://addons.mozilla.org/firefox/addon/multi-account-conta...
That sounds cool, how is the product doing now? Is this approach sustainable or this kind of "good fit" partnership is mostly luck?
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