skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence" is not a universal truth. it's a truism with limited scope. using it to refuse any potential you instinctively don't like the look of is simply lazy

all it means is that you set yourself up such that the only way to be convinced otherwise is for an AI apocalypse to actually happen. this kind of mindset is very convenient for modern, fuck-the-consequences capitalism

the pertinent question is: what evidence would you actually accept as proof?

it's like talking with someone who doesn't believe in evolution. you point to the visible evidence of natural selection in viruses and differentiation in dogs, which put together quite obviously lead to evolution, and they say "ah but can you prove beyond all doubt that those things combined produce evolution?" and obviously you cannot, because you can't give incontrovertible evidence of something that happened thousands or millions of years in the past.

but that doesn't change the fact that anyone without ulterior motive (religion, ensuring you can sleep at night) can see that evolution - or AI apocalypse - are extremely likely outcomes of the current facts.
> C does have enums.

Then again, so does Go. Go doesn't have an enum keyword like C, but that isn't what defines enums.
> little remaining wilderness

The US is mostly wilderness. Drive across it sometime staying off the highways.
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Hi, your site says "Send a speculative application", mine was fairly speculative but I just went through the fullstack engineer posting, didn't see any other links.
will those require a bitstream change too?
That's not what the text I pasted. This is strange! I only changed the text by replacing some sensitive information with [REDACTED], didn't delete anything. I checked the email, it says "deprovisioned."
This is also why chemical batteries that can react in milliseconds are such useful buffer tech, even if they can't store more than a few hours of demand.
This is a dodge, and you are (rather verbosely) wiggling away from acknowledging a plainly counterfactual statement you just made:

In 2022 Ukraine shut down the pipeline to the EU in 2009 and again in 2014

You can dissect the 2009 and 2014 gas disputes, and speculate about who "provoked" whom all you want -- but as a matter of public record that it was the the Russian operator who cut the flow of gas in each case, not its counterpart.
Lazarus and the FudModule rootkit: Beyond BYOVD with an admin-to-kernel zero-day
There's no legitimate choice without education.

The consumer would switch their PWA default engine in one of the half dozen "you have to agree to continue" buttons when Edge and Chrome install themselves and demand every privacy and security toggle be turned off (as Microsoft Teams demands when you try to run it in Safari*), and then all PWAs would be insecure and monitored by the adtech engines.

This weird idea to force Apple to have OS viewports use a foreign engine would not be 99.9% of users' real choice at all, just like the users who installed Avast anti-virus didn't choose to have all their browsing sold to adtech, or the users who chose "Private Browsing" in Chrome didn't choose to have Google recording that activity to the user's profile.

* Note: Because Teams is actually "just" a skin on many different services and the Apple+CloudFlare private browsing confuse the coupling.
Just going to note that it is widely suspected that Hal Finney did much of the programming on PGP with Zimmermann taking the heat for him.
Azure-connected IoT devices at risk of RCE due to critical vulnerability
Just look at their respective Twitter to know how to bin them.
Answering 2 first because it's easier: Yes.

1. It's a great question and we're still learning the answer. But, I believe the approach is ~95% compatible, and the last 5% just needs tweaking on the margins vs a major overhaul. Let me try to explain...

First: SSR definitely makes the framing of "frontend api" vs "backend api" very confusing. So ignore that, and think of it purely as "api authenticated with a session token" vs "api authenticated with a secret key."

I think authenticating via session token is the key to enabling faster development with Clerk than tools like Auth0 (or even Stripe/Twilio/etc). The reason why is that it shifts the problem of _authorization_ from our customer's backend to Clerk's backend.

As an example, consider a user updating their email...

In the past, you would build a frontend for collecting their new email, send it to your backend, ensure that the user is updating their own name (the authorization step), then forward the update along to your account system (Auth0, your own database, whatever).

With Clerk, you build a frontend for collecting their new email, then send it straight to Clerk to handle the update with the user's session token. We are responsible for ensuring the update is to the users own account, and there's no requirement to hop to your backend to relay the secret key.

In the end, that hop to the backend and authorization check is responsible for a lot of the "clunk" that Clerk eliminates. And ultimately, SSR doesn't change our ability to make things easier – we can authenticate our API with a session token just-as-well during SSR as we can from the frontend.

This feels like a paradox, right? A session token has such limited power compared to secret key, so surely it can't be used to build an easier API. But in practice, confidently knowing which user is making the request is necessary for shifting the authorization step to our service.

I'd add that this idea isn't particularly novel. Stripe Checkout depends on a CheckoutSession object, which you initialize by passing in the active user's ID. So there, you see that Stripe having the active user's ID enables them remove a ton of steps for building a checkout. Implicitly, under-the-hood Checkout relies on an API that uses a session token for authentication.

We just took the idea one step further and are exposing the API, instead of only using it to power a single, fairly rigid UI. With Clerk, developers can use React Hooks to build their own UI.

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Now, regarding the 5% that we still need to figure out. It pertains exactly to the currentUser() and currentOrg() functions you're calling out. Those are compatible, but they require some extra thoughtfulness.

As an example, Clerk's User object has a field called "privateMetadata". From the backend, it's completely okay for currentUser() to return this private data, but Clerk needs to make sure it doesn't leak to the frontend. That creates some oddities - the User object on frontend is different than on backend, and I don't think we've really nailed the ergonomics / education on this part yet. But it generally feels like a solvable problem.
Even something as simple as granite countertops are a good example of that. A stone countertop is hundred of thousands or millions of years old. They would likely last until the planet itself was swallowed up by the sun as it swells with age.

But, granite countertops installed in the 90's and 2000's are considered "old" and "dated" and are being torn out for a different stone often at great expense.

It was a waste that they were ever installed to begin with. Could have installed a laminate countertop that would last 5ish years and look good for 1/10th the cost and then swapped it out 5 times in the same time period for a fraction of the cost and essentially no permanent waste.
I took some pictures when my (then) wife got her first DSLR using long exposure times at night of some buildings in Mexico, e.g., https://share.icloud.com/photos/0ccsqWIBoU-CmT60CaZMopaLA

What surprised me was that with enough exposure time, the sky was blue, not black (I’d also note that this being 2008, the color change cannot be attributed to algorithmic processing of the image in camera).
> I don't understand what the bribe has to do with anything.

I'm responding to a thread about Facebook "lobbying" legislators for tax carve outs. I choose to call it what it is - a bribe.

> According to you, all money belonging to everyone is really tax money that has been stolen from the people.

Im not going to argue for a position I never took. I said that taxes avoided is money denied to the public. You called it theft, because thats your libertarian ideology poking through.
Yes. Would you rather install a full-on app for a once-off event (concert, festival or conference) or would you rather just install a light-weight PWA or just use the website?
Presumably that you can only add the PWA from Safari, because there does not exist any API to add a PWA from a third-party app.
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Just discovered what3words. Is this a missed opportunity?
Is this a missed opportunity to make each word successively more granular? (like a quadtree)

You could also cluster names alphabetically to indicate proximity.

E.g., banana.star.green would be close to banana.star.electronics, and would be closer to banana.curry.funk than house.choose.watcher.
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Similar, but a really small hydro plant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xGQxSJmadm0
`iota` is maybe the only language feature of Go that I would actually support removing. Obviously, they never will because it would be a breaking change. Its just so vestigial. There's literally no reason to use it, and a very big reason why you shouldn't: The encoded value can change any time you re-compile your program, so you can't actually use it for anything where the value of the enum leaves the process that instantiated it (e.g. marshaling to JSON and sending over the wire). That's a terribly poor characteristic for a feature in a "systems" (emphasis on plural) programming language to have, one would think.
Nowhere in Apple's statement or anywhere else does it say that the EU agrees with this. It's just Apple announcing a plan. I can imagine them being like "we showed we'd be willing to kill PWAs entirely, so they surely will be OK with our olive branch here and let us keep our WebKit restriction in place for PWAs"

But I'm not so sure. I certainly don't hope so.

The EU isn't stupid. They very much capable enough to see Apple's shenanigans for what they are.
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Why not just use WebView?
For some reason your greenhouse page submit button keeps on hanging on me
The usage of “do” and some of the uses of would/could/should come from “Celtic” languages if I understand correctly.
Because it was started 9 years ago and AI research is expensive.
Whats the problem? Just turn the last one round.
Incoming wave of AI is making buying PCs riskier for businesses
Works fine - thanks!
I don't trust OpenAI or Microsoft, but I don't have much faith in democratization either. We wouldn't do that with nukes, after all.
There's an interesting angle that I think could have been explored more in this article, which is that companies have their own persona, and that persona is usually highly managed. People get degrees to learn how to communicate externally as a company. Companies are highly protective of their persona because it's often closely tied to their brand.

Most employees are careful about how they speak publicly, especially when they might be speaking for their employer. Famously a lot of Apple employees would always put "my tweets don't represent the positions of my employer" in their Twitter bios. And when employees do screw up, the company has an escape hatch, they can fire the employee and the world moves on.

The products that companies put out into the world are part of that persona/brand too. When you turn on your new iPhone the software experience is exactly as Apple designed it. The heavy curation of the App Store is another example: Apple believes that apps on their store reflect their company and values. And people see it the same way, just look at calls to remove certain apps that have objectionable content (e.g. Parlor).

This new wave of generative AI products puts a big wrench in that though because no matter how well you crafted your prompts, you have no control over what the models output. Google put the guardrails in Gemini in place because they were worried that the model would output something that would hurt their brand, and in doing so they just created a new problem that hurt their brand. OpenAI largely got away with this in the beginning because GPT was a technology demo, but the moment it became a product it had to have an opinion, because the company itself would be held responsible for what it output. And unlike an employee you can't just fire your AI model when it screws up and move on.

This is going to be tricky for companies to navigate.
But you haven't described anything, you just said it's complicated.
I admit to bristling a bit at your suggestion that I "do some reading" on the Jewish experience in America. I like to think that I'm fairly well read on the topic. But if it wasn't clear from the previous post, I am also a (secular) Jew, married to a Jew, and come from a large, geographically spread out (and politically spread out) Jewish family. Most of my relatives are married to Jews. I've been to more family bar and bar mitzvahs than I can count, including my own. My name (and, to some extent, phenotype) leave little doubt of my background to those who might care to know. Like you, the places and I have lived and the professional environments I have worked in have brought me in contact with many more. Perhaps unlike you, shared cultural background also offers the possibility of pretty frank discussion on matters related to Jewish experience.

So while I certainly don't presume to speak for all American Jews, or most American Jews, I am operating under much more than "impressions" or "opinions." Like your neighbors, I am describing what I, and many, many besides me, are, as you say, "currently, personally, experiencing as Jewish Americans."

The point you were supporting claimed that this was an experience that "everyone who is Jewish" faced. This is a gross overstatement, and one that is without doubt being mobilized currently for political purposes. If you want to speak about a rise in antisemitic acts in the US, we could do that, provided we are operating under a shared definition. If you want to talk about the experience of suburban Jews in the Northern Midwest, I'd be happy to hear more, and compare it to what I've heard from friends and family who live there. But I was responding to your post about why anyone would question a universalizing claim about the experience of Jews in America. Please don't tell me I need to do more reading to do that.
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> rigid and encompassing

Rigid makes it sound bad. I would suggest "reliable" instead.
Gmail threads can also be task managers. That doesn't mean they're the right UI for it.
Was it a donation? Or was it an investment?
This article adds more to conversation from previous submission and is an analysis by Matt Levine and includes 2 documents worth of note and talks about the lack of a Funding Agreement.

> There’s a June 2015 email from Altman to Musk, with five numbered bullet points setting out a plan for building AI. “The mission would be to create the first general AI and use it for individual empowerment — i.e., the distributed version of the future that seems the safest,” the first bullet point begins. “I think ideally we’d start with a group of 7-10 people, and plan to expand it from there,” says the second, and “we have a nice extra building in Mountain View they can have.” The third bullet point proposes a five-person governance board including Musk and Altman, and “we’d have an ongoing conversation about what work should be open-sourced and what shouldn’t.” In the fourth bullet point, Altman asks Musk to “be involved somehow in addition to just governance”; maybe he could “come by and talk to them about progress once a month or whatever.”1 Musk replied to the email “Agree on all.”

> There is the December 2015 certificate of incorporation of OpenAI Inc., the nonprofit corporation that ultimately controls OpenAI. “The specific purpose of this corporation is to provide funding for research, development and distribution of technology related to artificial intelligence,” it says. “The resulting technology will benefit the public and the corporation will seek to open source technology for the public benefit when applicable. The corporation is not organized for the private gain of any person. … No part of the net income or assets of this corporation shall ever inure to the benefit of any director, officer or member thereof or to the benefit of any private person.”
It's specifically been trained to be, well, the best term is "woke" (despite the word's vagueness, LLMs mean you can actually have alignment towards very fuzzy ideas). They have started fixing things (e.g. it no longer changes between "would be an immense tragedy" and "that's a complex issue" depending on what ethnicity you talk about when asking whether it would be sad if that ethnicity went extinct), but I suspect they'll still end up a lot more biased than ChatGPT.
Here you can see the current grid time and frequency of the continental Europe grid:

https://www.swissgrid.ch/en/home/operation/grid-data/current...
> A powerful technology is a danger to society if only a few people possess it. By giving it to everyone, you even the playing field.

Except nukes. Only allies can have nukes.
Works already been done for the most part. Mixtral is to GPT what Linux was to Windows. Mistral AI has been doing such a good job democratizing Microsoft's advantage that Microsoft is beginning to invest in them.
> Trying to make Vulkan a single API that covers everything from low-end mobile to high-end desktop was probably a mistake, in practice it has split into wildly distinct dialects for low-end and high-end targets anyway.

Lots of people are continuing to make this mistake.

Things like "windowing init" libraries, for example, want to abstract over desktop, mobile, and web/WASM.

Sadly, the interaction mechanisms and lifetime management are sufficiently different that either you wind up with huge complications or the least common denominator is really low.
Usually the point is to reduce the total hours per week as well, i.e. 32h instead of 40h.
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