skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you really want to hide whether a username is in use, then you also have to obscure the actual duration of the authentication process among other things. The amount of hoops you need to jump through to properly hide username usage are sufficient that you need to actually consider if this is a requirement or not. Otherwise, it is just a cargo cult security practice like password character requirements or mandated password reset periods.

In this case, Facebook does not treat hiding username usage as a requirement. Their password reset mechanism not only exposes username / phonenumber usage, but ties it to a name and picture. So yes, Facebook returning an error that says credentials are incorrect when it has infrastructure problems is absolutely a defect.
sorry, I am not familiar with the Kalashnikov story, so it would be an incredible coincidence if it did!
a trans woman who had been on HRT for 5 years managed to qualify for and come second in an event, and later won some others, yes that is most certainly evidence that she had an unfair advantage /s

she was also in the ballpark with the other competitors, not the sort of far and away difference that you make it out to be.
That's just a potential downside of email. Any technology can be misused, email isn't unique. I haven't experienced your specific trauma so it doesn't scan to me as something defining about email, but I could name my own pet peeves about other media. Lots of technologies allow us to violate etiquette (or law) at a higher scale.

Email is at least a throwback to the earlier internet, to a time before enshittification, before scams and bots and ads made up the bulk of the traffic.
> whilst the mapping (theta, phi) —> (x, y, z) is continuous, it isn’t uniformly so… or something like that.

The term is "measure preserving". The mapping is continuous but it doesn't preserve the length of intervals projected through it.
So I tried changing the settings, and somehow during that, I accidentally managed to change the size of my menubar, I don't know how. But anyway - even after changing to light, which also seemed an odd process to me that I had to do it as a range slider, where it snapped at certain point in time, even though I was moving my hand smoothly, which I guess is NOT that bad, but it could've been just 3 radio button options, not this goofy slider. And somehow when I click on the option the range option, this simple animation lags and skips. It just doesn't feel smooth animation. I don't have the latest M chip, but I do have an M1 Pro chip, so I'd imagine it should be able to handle animating a slider change... But I didn't finish my sentence previously. Even at light, it doesn't feel like I would intuitively expect it to feel. Something is still wrong.

And another random grievance - what is the point of only showing X, - and the other icon when you hover on them. It's just weird decision to me. The Red > Yellow > Green thing.
one was already provided in my comment. ask it to create something by prompting the idea that only exists in your imagination, set up the constraints with natural language, and guide it to explore the dynamics of it with the context and constraints you just provided. you can see before your very eyes that it can interact with a context and set of constraints you just pulled out of thin air, something that exists nowhere but its context window.

I mean even being able to find the salient points and summarize an article that was written today (not in the training set) is intelligence, but some would move goal posts thinking it is something so simple, and from your tone I assumed you'd claim it as such. so I provided a hopefully more foolproof version of testing emergent intelligence that extends beyond training data.
I learned about that process in the podcast Shit Town. The main character first gold plates a dime.

Spoiler, they go in more detail about this process at the end of the series.

Would suggest a listen. It's amazing.
To be fair, this "social networking site" is specifically designed to be hostile towards most forms of social networking, and it's full of misanthropes who probably have the Unabomber manifesto right next to the Dragon Book on their bookshelf.
The Arctic Institute: Infrastructure (2022)
Citi consistently was the card who would freeze and not work when I was overseas despite me telling them I was traveling leading to many embarrassing moments. They always say, oh we're just trying to protect your account from fraud. I'm like, you already guarantee i'm not responsible for fraud so you're just making my life inconvenient to protect CITI from fraud.
This policy seems to cover all credit cards, including those store-branded cards that sign up people with zero credit history and generally offer small limits. People miss those payments too.

> but that's not in the incentive of the companies which is why they issue them anyways

This is a good point. I do not agree we should do anything about it though. People need to learn responsibility, and it's not the government's job to prevent them from being irresponsible.
Same as ten years ago.
if that was the plan, they wouldn't have Stephen Wolfram on their board
All Banks are a necessary evil.

Otherwise you would have to carry lots of cash with you always (And even then, some places won't accept it) and store the rest of your extra cash under your bed.

I deal with several Banks, but I don't really like any of them.

https://www.westpac.com.au/
https://www.commbank.com.au
https://www.bendigobank.com.au/
I'm not sure if he's joking or serious! In any case sorry this has to be said but no don't give drugs to kids please.
Is gnome feature complete on freebsd? The article mentions gnome clocks wants to use timer units in the future, and gnome-session logs to journald.
Really enjoyed the puzzle, hope I got it right :)
I'm specifically referring to the cases in the article where companies pay for this.
Puter.js – Build powerful web apps without writing a single line of back end
I think the entire point of the super dollar is that it is basically impossible to tell from a legitimate $100 bill, save from checking for duplicate/non-existent serial numbers.
Totally agree. This is a problem that is easily solved by the free market. You get a high fee once, you will learn the lesson and either be more diligent or use a bank that has lower fees.

I think it's just a cheap shot by some politicians to get easy points. It always sounds good when they punish big greedy banks/corporations. But in reality those small regulations slowly add up each year and in the long run it makes it harder for smaller players to get into the space. And lack of competition makes it easier for bigger players to abuse their position. So the opposite of the original intent. And the cycle continues. More intervention needed etc.
I have Android and I can turn off notifications. This is my default except for Signal which my immediate family is on (they call on it too).

SMS is mostly SPAM, so definitely off. I would never pick up a call originating from my carrier.

For your scenario:

Do the same for all notifications, and only check phone when you want to, when home?
Most executives I know who travel are meeting with a bunch of customers if they're going that far. By and large, the idea that "OMG I'm losing 4 hours of billable time" isn't very broadly applicable--if, indeed, it ever was.
Once off lifetime memberships suck. They seem good but once they've got my money (and spent it in that year's budget or whatever), I'm basically just a free user with extra obligations from the company's perspective.

I strongly believe part of the reason Plex has gone down the shitter is because they sold too many lifetime memberships and expenditure has outstripped recurring revenue.
@dang lift my rate limit?
Fees would probably eat away a lot of your hard earned money. Take a look here: https://www.bogleheads.org/wiki/Managing_a_windfall
The outcome of this proposed policy would be interest charges immediately, instead of being assessed monthly. It's not actually free to loan someone money... which is what happens when you swipe your credit card instead of your debit card and float the charges until the end of the billing period.
We get calls at work when people can't reach our services while their power is out, so yes, I do.
So your approach to security is to never admit that an application had an error to a user, but to instead gaslight that user with incorrect error messages that blame them?

This is security by obscurity of the worst kind, the kind that actively harms users and makes software worse.
We need to talk about water – and the fact that the world is running out of it
Paul Krugman linked to a few Japanese groups that post their performances on Youtube...
> but that's a silly attitude

You described the books as containing “knowledge we don't gravely need in the first place”. If that’s the case, and if you’re reading for knowledge, why bother reading either one? If you already know you don’t need the knowledge those books contain, move on to other books.

And if you’re just reading for fun, that’s fine, but then why does the amount of knowledge the book contains even enter into it? Why even bring it up in your comment, especially in a way which comes across as snarky?

And fwiw, if I’m reading snark into your comment where no snark was intended, my apologies.
This definitely wasn't in my 2024 bingo card.

What does Accenture (or for that matter Udacity) have to gain from this acquisition?
I'm not sure what you're going on about with government preventing irresponsiblity.
So not really an outage ? Just meta
There's no point of speculating - is what you're suggesting happening?

You seem to be under an illusion that you cannot make money without late fees, which is false.
Super cool! I absolutely adore swift, it has so many simple features I love that I am sometimes surprised to find are missing in other languages. (ex off the top of my head: switching on enum's with associated values is super powerful in Swift and I was surprised Dart was completely missing that when I tried flutter a while back?)

Ex:

enum MyEnum<T> {

case one

case two(twosChild: Child)

case three(threesGenericChild: T)

case four(foursCallbackChild: () -> Void)

}

You can then pass this enum around and switch on it, with compiler-guaranteed completeness everywhere in your codebase. It seems so freaking simple, but it's incredibly useful.
Sounds very interesting.

> Fun stuff, but still probably a few years away from a HN post about it...

Remember that partial results are very useful too. Personally I like reading posts that have unfinished ideas, with commentary. Eg “I needed something to achieve X and I settled on Y. That causes some annoying side effect Z, so I’ll keep looking for a better solution”. That stuff is even more engaging than “look at this almighty finished and perfect system”.
you guys are living in a dreamworld. I'm totally fine with a site that has "tracking" like Google analytics to help content makers and businesses alike make decisions. And have visited many a site with valuable content that might have been tracking me at the same time. This eliminates tons of valuable content.
When I was younger and poorer, I used to pay poorer friends who lived nearer the city a few dollars to park my car near their place for a long trip and have them give me a ride into the airport.

These days I could probably optimize a bit by taking car service in and grabbing an Uber to come back home. But really isn't worth the trouble.
Try to send some big amount of money internationally and you will see why crypto is the future. With regular banks it takes days, weeks and many times months due to intermediate banks, AML questions, reviews, etc and have very high costs associated for simple transfers of money hardly earned.

With cryptocurrencies it takes seconds or minutes and no questions asked with very low fees
> This makes a whole lotta sense till you remember the whole death penalty thing.

This is the whole death penalty thing. Speakers of AAVE are statistically more likely to commit crimes that impose the death penalty, even more likely than the African American population as a whole. LLMs operate on the basis of statistics.

It has nothing to do with race or crime, it will do the same thing with any other statistical correlation. If you tell it someone is a corn farmer it will be more likely to emit output that implies they're from Iowa.
Well, I'm discarding whole experiments. Each experiment is reported in full, I just don't publish all of them. No scientist ever does.

His claim about likelihoods being immune to p-hacking is far too strong.

> With p-values, sometimes even honest experiments end up with misleading conclusions. It takes a decent amount of complex understanding to perform properly, while something like gathering data and doing a conditional probability calculation has presumably less risk of honest mistakes

Maybe. I've seen an experienced Bayesian statistician who had published a paper about Lindley's paradox fall prey to Lindley's paradox and publish a misleading conclusion as a result. Bayesian analysis also has some pitfalls. Name withheld to protect the innocent.
A government is using a technology against its citizens? News at 11! Facial recognition is heavily used by all governments, in NYC, 15000 cameras are used for that purpose (1) as most Americans are already in a facial recognition database (2) that is accessed by the FBI (3), and even the retailers uses it(4), I read before the highway cameras are also used, but I can’t find the article. Same in the UK (5) and you should assume all governments are using it, in fact, right now governments leverage drones for even more efficient recognition.

(1) https://www.amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2021/06/scale-new-yor...

(2) https://www.perpetuallineup.org

(3) https://www.aclu.org/news/privacy-technology/fbi-has-access-...

(4) https://www.theverge.com/2021/7/14/22576236/retail-stores-fa...

(5) https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/24/business/london-police-fa...
Musk Meets with Trump as Former President Seeks 2024 Donors
This sounds intriguing and slightly hype-y. But I would love to see our math guys here break down and analyze what's hype and what's not. Is Claude's description detailed and concrete enough to be useful? It seems that's where LLM's often struggle.
There has been some interesting work when it comes to distributed training. For example DiLoCo (https://arxiv.org/abs/2311.08105). I also know that Bittensor and nousresearch collaborated on some kind of competitive distributed model frankensteining-training thingy that seems to be going well. https://bittensor.org/bittensor-and-nous-research/

Of course it gets harder as models get larger but distributed training doesn't seem totally infeasible. For example if we were to talk about MoE transformer models, perhaps separate slices of the model can be trained in an asynchronous manner and then combined with some retraining. You can have minimal regular communication about say, mean and variance for each layer and a new loss term dependent on these statistics to keep the "expertise" for each contributor distinct.
More state media is a good idea. If telling the truth is no longer profitable, then some kind of non-profit institution must step up, and the government is a good way to get funding.

In the U.S., we have always had NPR as a publicly-funded alternative. It has become a lightning-rod, however, accused of being biased or being propaganda for the deep state, etc.

And really, what would be a good proof that it is not biased? We don't really want to anoint a Minister of Truth. Who gets to say what is and what isn't biased??

Private competition is a way, and, when media companies competed on how credible they were, i.e. the most accurate news sources got the most money, it worked pretty good. But now they simply cannot compete on credibility, because its just too damn expensive to be accurate.

What to do? I don't know, but I'm not willing to just dismiss Australia's laws out of hand as being axiomatically evil. At least they are trying to do something.
There were a lot of two player "picture book" (as opposed to the usual solo text-based) gamebooks published in the 1980s, ultimately inspired by Ace of Aces (which from 1980 was the first as far as I know). There were the "Lost Worlds" swordfighting ones, there were dragon-rider ones based on the "Dragonriders of Pern" series, ones where you were Old West gunfighters, etc.
Numberblocks gave my kid impressive numerical literacy at a super young age.
This still happens consistently, and I don't even have to leave the country, I just have to buy flights to a foreign country (eg: for vacation) or buy something from a foreign website (eg: buying a gift for my family).

The only reason I use them is for their 2% cash back on everything, but I have stopped using them for any non-domestic purchases.
FTFA: `Millions of Americans could soon see lower credit card bills after a federal rule that caps late fees at $8 a month was finalized on Tuesday by the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which estimates that the change will save households $10 billion a year.`

This is the government enabling more irresponsibility.
Trollish usernames aren't allowed on HN, so I've banned this account.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Also, it's not allowed to use HN primarily for political battle, which you've been doing, so there's that as well.

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...

Please don't create accounts to break HN's rules with.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The market will only bear so little because there is competition creating a race to the bottom. If all of the credit card providers are to absorb the same hardship, then it is akin to moving the finish line, and the market will bear more because the market will have to.
Try Kagi’s “Quick Answer” feature. You could probably specify a multi-currency lens.
Not one of Microsoft's better ideas.

A non-text Registry is great for obfuscation, but not so great for fixing configuration issues.

There is a reason that UNIX/Linux config files are normally text files. They can be fixed with a normal text editor and the meanings are in plain English (which probably 40% of the world's population can understand)
> no one is discussing the externalized cost of taking up (arguably empty) seats he didn't pay for and setting the stage for future "nomads" to do the same and turning first class night trains into a substandard hostel

It is not an externalized cost. DB would even make more money if more people did it, up until the point it started costing them more profitable sales (at which point they will change the rules). It is like any mass transport, where it is better to carry a passenger at zero or even negative profit than it is to have a half empty bus/plane/train. A full plane, even if half are traveling at cost, is more profitable than a half full plane, because the fixed costs of the journey is amortized over more passengers. Rather than 50% of the full fare being lost to the fixed journey costs, only 25% of the full fare gets lost. This is how economy class works, where little profit is made, but covers the fixed cost of a flight allowing more profit to be extracted from business, first and extras.
I've issues with YT Kids crashing every now and then.
Yes, and it gets multiplied by the power of the notation, once you get familiar with it.
Dart has it, last 12 months or so.

Funnily enough, I sort of had the opposite journey, Swift seems horribly complicated and over-specified. The Dart compiler knows if I do a null-check, it can treat following references as safe, instead of if let x = x etc.

And it just hasn't lived up to any of the initial starry-eyed hype I had for it and expectations for a wider Swift ecosystem...

Like, here, it's great it runs on Raspberry Pi Pico but...it can't render UI unless someone writes a new UI library from scratch. And whoever does that inevitably will have to copy SwiftUI directly or alienate the people who actually know Swift.
Never used multicast outside of local networks, but I was wondering: does you like it for the perf benefits or are there practical advantages that makes multicast systems easier to reason about or program for?
Yeah new teams is much less of an annoyance in terms of change as it was already a slow web app and users don't really expect much from it. And the UI didn't change at all.

They bogged it down with too many features and now they're trying to scrape it up by having a slightly more optimised framework, which is basically still exactly the same, it's now just based on edge instead of chrome which we all know are really the same thing under the hood anyway.

So where new teams is just a cutesy little badge on the same thing, new outlook is really a serious deprecation.

And yeah they're trying to get people off email for sure. Microsoft even have banners of "don't mail but teams" under their consultants' emails.

Makes sense from a strategic perspective to move from an open platform to something they fully control and own. It's the old lock-in game they've always played, after their initial strategy of Embracing Extend failed on email (they made a huge attempt but Google was very successful so the same and now there's a kinda duopoly stalemate they can never win)
Yes the classic one is that you make a transfer on the checking acct instead of savings and end up using a bit of you line of credit. So you get the payoff amount and pay it, but it doesn't include the interest for today. So tomorrow, you still owe a few cents and if you don't pay it off (because you thought you did pay it off already and they don't notify you until it's actually late), you end up with another $30 late fee for a fraction of a $ in interest. Looking at you Santander.

Back in the day the banks used to order your withdrawals largest first when posting them overnight to maximize the number of times you'd get overdrawn (and get an overdrawn fee). People would get hit by multiple overdrawn fees in one day. I think they outlawed that one a few years ago.
It's probably been prompted like this for similar break-throughs thousands of times.

Is it really that impressive that it's done this once? I imagine with enough tries, GPT-4 Turbo and Gemini 1.5 Pro have done similarly impressive things.
> eliminates tons of valuable content

They aren’t eliminating it, just downranking it. Given Kagi’s search quality, ad and tracking density seems to negatively correlate with site quality.
Complex signal processing is not complex [pdf]
I’m not a quantum computing expert, but surely it’s more likely the algorithm is less original than the authors’ believed, than it is that Opus is doing original scientific research.
Alternatively: I live in a system where I can have government reduce the power of companies. I’ll do that instead.