skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> broke French laws. Swiss authorities compelled the disclosure.

That's a terrible reason. Torrenting breaks French law. Having the wrong bread or cheese with your wine probably breaks French law.

And if your company can be compelled via gag order to give up your users' privacy whenever the authorities feel like it, well, your product isn't very effective anyways, and you should stop pretending you offer any meaningful level of protection.
Defense contracting is lucrative, marketing even moreso.
https://ditto-cp.sourceforge.io/
Are you so deeply set in this mindset/idea that OpenAI is dishonest that you can't imagine that they might just be doing what they say they are doing?

Would you be willing to say literally anything I ask you to to anyone I specify, including telling your family that you have been kidnapped and need money?

Sometimes, when someone tells you they are concerned about something, that something is concerning. We should evaluate the actual concern. I am concerned you do not realize this.
Could you tell me which features do you use in IrfanView that JpegView lacks?
past discussion:

- (HN) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=881278

- (Slashdot) https://tech.slashdot.org/story/09/10/14/1219215/tim-berners...
This looks interesting. I'm working on an OpenAI-based tool for coding tasks that are too complex for ChatGPT - https://github.com/plandex-ai/plandex

It's working quite well for me, but it definitely needs some time spent on benchmarking and ironing out edge cases.

I'm especially curious how it will do on more "obscure" languages. Not that Cobol is obscure exactly--I suppose there's probably quite a bit of it in GPT-4's training considering how pervasive it is in some domains. In any case, I'll try out this benchmark and see how it goes.
> Front page vote counts are now typically 1/10th what they were

Is that really a reliable metric for activity there? Genuinely curious. What if more content is being published and popular posts don't get as much voting because of the churn?

> before the exodus

Exodus to where, exactly? A few thousand users switching to some obscure alternative isn't much. Sure, people left Twitter, but Threads and Bluesky are way bigger than any reddit alternative.
Promises are a nice success story, but without async/await it wasn't really necessary to standardize

> The current draft is based on design input from the authors/maintainers of Angular, Bubble, Ember, FAST, MobX, Preact, Qwik, RxJS, Solid, Starbeam, Svelte, Vue, Wiz, and more…

Would be interested what existing library authors think of this proposal. Interesting that React is not in that list

Signals are a bit like channels, except they're broadcast instead of single receiver. It'd be neat if this could somehow be leveraged to allow web workers to communicate with channels instead of onMessage callbacks. Specifically being able to `select` over signals/channels/promises like in Go would over a syntactic benefit over having to try manage multiple concurrent messaging mechanism with callbacks (maybe by allowing signals to be included in `Promise.any`)
Fast and concise probabilistic filters in Python
Why do people want anonymous functions so much? Is it just because naming things is hard?

Classically trained math focused types tend to be especially bad at naming things. Which, I guess, is fine when developing the infernal equation. but it sure does not do anyone any favors when they have to understand the thing.

personally, in python, I refuse to use lambda functions on ethical grounds, all my functions are named. And then you should see my javascript, all those names would probably make any real JS dev sick.
How about allowing non-indentation-defined code blocks? Say, by wrapping a block of code with {}?
You can create a class inside a function and return an object of it. That name is not legal outside of the function but its methods can be called.
He had a real gift for making theoretical topics interesting. I read his book The New Turing Omnibus (https://archive.org/details/newturingomnibus0000dewd_q3p6) as a teenager, and credit it with a decent part of getting me into computer science. Rest easy.
LLVM breaks backwards compatibility all the time, though...
> One thing I've noticed is that the admins are super ready to ghost/delete/dead people who respond to companies with harsh critique.

Can you give any examples?

FWIW, I'm in favor of an unusually strong admin presence on that thread. It's been a good place for me to find jobs, and I don't want employers scared away from it.
I think you forgot about India. It's 22% of the world minimum.
Instead of phrasing it as stating an unpopular opinion, try asking a question with an unpopular answer instead, that way someone else takes the downvotes on your behalf.
I can extend your line of argument to say that the reason maybe that you don't like them because of qatar connection and they are Muslim majority country. And in india there is a lot of nationalists that are Islamphopics and that ruling party is oppressing Muslim minority in india. But you would say that this is wrong and no evidence of that and I can say that you don't cover any Muslim minority oppression and that is why you are anti-muslim. This is how the argument you are presenting is flawed.
Better ways to describe polymorphism, a better type system in general really. Look to async Rust for a great example of such interoperability.
I disagree that SMS two factor is more secure than a password alone. I have found that once you enter your phone, it is more trusted than your password (meaning it alone can reset your password). A phone number is as secure as the least competent support person at your phone provider.

A password, with email reset is better. My email has two factors of authentication, rather than whatever my phone provider requires as proof.
Is Garry Tan San Francisco's 'Twitter Menace' or True Believer?
Whenever I read about how AI is going to automate art or some other creative job I think about a quote I read (maybe here) that went something like “that which is made without effort is enjoyed without pleasure”.
Much as I believe consistent collection of longitudinal data is important, I think this is great news.
I view Who is Hiring as more of an advertising page than anything else.
Since your account is a throwaway, could you name these companies? I'd like to avoid them if possible
If you feel stuck it means you need new habits because the old ones are not serving you well!

Program your environment, set up commitment devices to lock in your future behaviour that is positive and effortless.

Do not ever set goals, they are high-risk low pay off mental bets that will eat you if you fail (odds are against you).
Sucks. Sure do wish we had some sort of collective bargaining power to prevent this. Oh, but that one guy over there is really good at Leetcode, so never mind, every man for himself.
Thanks, but I did check that earlier as well. My private, static address is correctly labeled:

privacy:
vpn: false
proxy: false
tor: false
relay: false
hosting: false
service: ""
time to start typing like a grownup
Someone should test the benchmark on Claude 3 models.
> AI agents suck.

The idea does not suck. On paper it's great. Just tell an "agent" what
you want and off it goes to get it. And it's possible. LLMs open the
interface to search planning and selection algorithms that have been
around for 40 years and are mature. You could have this tomorrow.

The assumption is that people want it.

Tech business has come a long way exploiting people's vices,
specifically laziness of thought we call "convenience". But at heart,
tech is still seen as a tool, to empower people, to give them
agency.

Agents subtract agency.

> It's too early.... the big breakthrough.

Hoping for progress against human psychology seems a fool's errand.
Were there assimilated Founders? A drone changeling?
Explanation for enumeration: the thing about enumeration is you can ensure that you do an exhaustive handling of all cases in a switch statement. If an enum changes in a future library version you can get a compile error wherever the enum is enumerated in code which helps you handle new cases due to new features in a library. Go can’t do that.
There was also this paper [0] making the rounds in 2022. Ultrahigh precision equipment for hobby level prices makes me super excited to be alive right now.

[0] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S246806722...
"OpenAI, I'm going into the stock market, and I need your strongest models."
Depends on what you mean by "technically".

Computationally, python lambda is fully capable of whatever a regular python function can do, including side-effects, (you can call foo.set_bar()).

The limit is syntactical: a lambda has to be one single expression. So, no assignment statement, no multiple lines, etc.
But the probability that 16-byte value will be split over two 64-byte cache lines is not very high (I think it is 1/8). Is it worth optimizing for an unlikely case?
I went through 8 interviews and a take home only to be told I had been the best performer, but they weren't hiring for that role anymore. I baited them, and they quickly admitted they were lying and they wouldn't give me any actual feedback. They proceeded to hire somebody a week or two later.
Pinball is such an underrated game...

we also have a remake of this table for Visual Pinball X & VR!
-> https://www.vpforums.org/index.php?app=downloads&showfile=16...
I noticed that percentages are not quite accurate to perception when color is really close (it seems to cap at 95%).
These comments have to be bot generated. It's so tiring.
Not that I'm not also bitter and jaded, but what made you think a VC-funded pg forum was going to be at all fair and open with stuff like this?
OK I'm going to go ahead and say this is an absolutely phenomenal game. Great, original idea. I could see myself playing this with friends, and it could even be a successful board game, though we'd need a legend explaining the different things that can happen when a battle occurs (namely, if one of the attack words is not valid, the attack outright fails regardless of what's defending)

Needs a dictionary also.

For the online version (which is gorgeous) it really needs a multiplayer discovery mode.

I'm in room code PEEP if anyone fancies a game: https://truncate.town/#PEEP

edit: seems like the board editing in multiplayer mode doesn't work
Facebook and Reddit both have an onion mirror.

facebookwkhpilnemxj7asaniu7vnjjbiltxjqhye3mhbshg7kx5tfyd.onion

reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion
Thank you, that's very kind.

I tried to make it more playable via the tiny-font, working around the narrow width of the Spectrum display, but I think I need to add word-wrapping to the text-output for a better experience.

(PS. You can solve the game in four turns if you try!)
>But SMS is better security than no 2FA at all

Maybe for some users, but to many like me, this is an annoying assumption for a service provider to make. If I'm forced into adding an insecure method like SMS, I feel that it needlessly weakens my overall security posture. With effort and diligence, it's possible to manage a single strong password securely, but there is absolutely nothing I can do to use SMS securely, so the degree of security I can aim for is limited.

I think the right approach should be to allow the user to opt into such insecure methods, but to never force them to lower accept a lower standard.
That's already been taken care of - all you need to do is:

from __future__ import braces
I do still insist that they've suffered a brain drain that has not recovered. A lot of niche communities are instead mainly on discord now (which is arguably worse due to no search engine visibility) and when I stumble onto reddit looking for info on something technical, I often see deleted/edited out comments instead of potentially useful responses.
I am aware of PAKEs, and I decided not to waste my time mentioning them because as usual the situation is:

Using a PAKE correctly would be safe, but that sounds like work

Just saying "Use a good password" is no work and you can pretend it's just as safe.

Real world systems using a PAKE are very rare. The most notable is WPA3 (and there are numerous scenarios where it's for nothing until WPA2 is long obsolete). Lots of systems which would use a PAKE if designed by a cryptographer were instead designed by engineers or managers for whom "Ooh, a hash with salt" sounds like a sophisticated modern technical solution rather than a long obsolete one.
Cash out and wait 20-30 years to cash out again. That’s the AI train stop lol.
When will we have sympathy for the people who have mortgages and families instead of the massive companies with millions or billions of dollars?
Users cannot consent to Cloudflare seeing their traffic and it's not an issue.

Users consent to Facebook seeing their traffic and it's suddenly a problem?
For some reason, the Reddit onion mirror keeps working. Makes me wonder if the VPNs not working is a bug rather than an intentional choice.

Mirror: reddittorjg6rue252oqsxryoxengawnmo46qy4kyii5wtqnwfj4ooad.onion
I'd love to know what you see in TeraCopy... Doesn't Win11 now do parallel copies?
Entrepreneur influencers are some of the worst trash.
> every month for the last year have stood out where they are taking every candidate through the whole interview process as an exercise to train their current staff on interviewing with no actual intention of hiring candidates

how do you know about their intention? Why they would waste time on their employees training if they don't want to hire anyone?
Since your definition seems to be a sharp enough razor to triage 50 comments and I'm not read-in enough to tell from the OP, can you help elucidate? :)

Are we talking about work on so-called intelligent agents (something with a primitive OODA loop?), a specific ~pattern of conversational AI chatbot, or something else?
How would that work since you're not part of the union until you're hired?
If you’re willing to pay for the latency cost of per layer cpu fetching/offloading, I don’t see what extreme quant buys you.

You could just do a layer-by-layer fetching scheme with 4 bit weights.

For training too, just fetch each layer twice per step as needed for fwd/bwd.

And all for hbm cost equal to one layer’s worth
How do you adjust the microwave power? Microwaves with 2 rotary dials are far more useful and easily intuitive. (See https://www.amazon.in/Bajaj-Solo-Microwave-Oven-White/dp/B0C... and https://www.amazon.in/Godrej-Microwave-Mirror-distribution-s... for example).
The issue is the image is a crop from a picture in a Playboy shoot. The issue is not a licensing problem, it’s not a technical problem, it’s that the field for 50 years has used as a reference image a crop of a Playboy centerfold. We have to keep justifying changing it based on licensing and on the technical merits because fundamentally as a field computer science is still about 12 years old and can’t seem to understand why using a crop of a Playboy centerfold is both unprofessional and exclusionary, but the actual problem is the image is a crop of a Playboy centerfold that we’re continuing to use despite it being obvious even back then that it was probably a bad idea.
Oh my god the Barney thing has come up with every single group I've ever played that game with. Blew my mind the first time, then proceeded to blow everyone's minds every game after :D

(y'know, as much as one's mind can be blown by trivia about a children's tv show)
Given how good the newly released available-weight VoiceCraft[1] project seem to be, I would say the cat is already out of the bag.

People will soon have to learn that they should not trust voiced content. In regards to scam prevention, the key learning will to validate the security of the channel and never trust a voice alone.

If someone you know calls you from an established channel (their usual account / phone etc), it's probably safe. But any unauthenticated channel communication (unknown account etc) should be treated as suspicious.

[1]: https://github.com/jasonppy/VoiceCraft
> Promises are a nice success story, but without async/await it wasn't really necessary to standardize

One benefit of standardisation that's not tied to async/await is that the JavaScript engines has been able to do performance optimisations not otherwise possible which benefit Promise-heavy applications
build up for a mole leaking the code or a cyberattack originating in eastern europe or russia or a combination of both, thus including corruption and creating the need for stronger oversight of people working on AI by some clandestine agency and of course extreme regulation of open source AI and people capable of writing that kind of code, which would include extreme regulation of access to the training data and so on ... the interest groups in power censored the training data, took openai under their wing, and the fun continues. sorry, couldn't resist.
I don’t think NavinF shows any lack of concern for the issue as such. What’s being talked about here is whether OpenAI’s being forthright concerning their motives for keeping the tech closed.

I think we can all agree it is valid to be cautious with some of this tech, but the question is whether OpenAI is being cautious or simply using caution as PR. And given their track record, the latter seems, if not likely, then possible.
I disabled my eBay app login pop up because it would never come. My login would sit pending forever. Would much prefer TOTP, even if a little slower.
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The enlightenment has happened in the other comments, but the summary is:

* this enforces high entropy,

* the password is transmitted to the server, the private key is not.
Just like undergraduate work, your PhD thesis is practise. For the PhD, in the mechanics of doing large scale research and participating in the community. Save the novel and profound stuff for post-doctoral work.
The issue in this case is the tests are shipped with the code and not isolated from normal compile steps.

Others have pointed it out thos is a normal procedure. One would think these tests should result in a binary hash and that hash gets compared with the production build.

Ie, the build for production doesn't need to pass the tests, it just needs the hash of the files that passed.
He is NOT selling any courses. Can you please point me to any of his courses? He has a book he wrote about making software/projects called Make. This book is several years old and doesn't mention AI.
I was unaware of the rule that you can't criticize companies and got a comment moderated away. The rules are written down somewhere, maybe on the top of the threads? Forgot exactly where
> To me, it's wild to think that people on HN don't know about this relatively recent history and are so naive to think that these protections were just pulled out of the air to frustrate developers,

IMO we have modern journalism to thank for this sort of thing. People are so misinformed with rage bait articles that they push against policies in their own interest.

But if anyone dare suggest enforcing some minimum level of journalistic ethics they'll get attacked because somehow journalists have painted themselves as some sort of unassailable paragon of righteousness.
Are they trying to get competitors regulated?
Maybe they can call it "EventEmitter"

https://nodejs.org/en/learn/asynchronous-work/the-nodejs-eve...
One has to wonder how effective is that strategy given that the adult industry seems to have a much easier time recruiting women than tech
Sure. To be clear, I'm not saying "force users to use SMS". The ideal solution for most (not all) situations, in my opinion, is to require a password and one of HOTP|SMS as a second factor.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hostis_humani_generis
"Dont turn off the light, I might die!"
> At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The
Torment Nexus

Yes it's a meme. But it's the summary of OpenAIs public demeanor
Today they still boot in 16-bit real mode. Very quickly, it usually switches to 32bit mode for the BIOS, maybe eventually 64bit mode.

Option ROMs still start in real mode (at least for non-UEFI). The system management (SMI) handlers are still launched in real mode but too!

When the OS gets launched, l it brings up the other CPUs in real mode (INIT/SIPI), and has to do all the same gymnastics again…

Even PCI configuration space access is still supported with IO ports and that mode still required for some aspects.

Even today, the serial port still uses IO ports and interrupts just as it did 40+ years ago…

Yep, IO based POST codes are still a thing…
Sometimes I wonder if comments like this aren't meant seriously, but to paint particular groups as silly, to make their positions appear less serious.
Flimsy justifications become precedent and eventually become norms.

I don't have any actual objection to no longer using it. I just don't like the justification.
someone would have done it. better US than them
This looks very much like mobx, which is my favorite JS effect system.

Here is the mobx version:

import { observable, computed, autorun } from 'mobx';

const counter = observable.box(0);

const isEven = computed(() => (counter.get() & 1) === 0);

const parity = computed(() => isEven.get() ? "even" : "odd");

autorun(() => {
element.innerText = parity.get();
});

// Simulate external updates to counter...
setInterval(() => counter.set(counter.get() + 1), 1000);
I agree with your argument but take into account that this is what we are discovering just now because of the software and hardware industries and Milstein was a pioneer in "open sourcing" his work with an "open license".
You can use Waydroid, or, if the bank forces you into the duopoly, you should complain.
> Is it so critical to stop people like your parents from using incandescent bulbs, on the basis that they are less efficient?

When these people complain that energy is expensive and want solutions (but can't math out their value themselves), then yes.

>We are all operating under imperfect information, as myself and other commenters have pointed out, because LED bulbs don't last as long as advertised.

Anecdotes are anecdotes. Here's my own anecdote: My LED bulbs last a long time. I still have the heavy, silicone-coated, heatsinked, glass-enveloped OG Cree LED bulbs that I got from Home Depot in ~2012, and they still work (the CRI sucks and always has, but they work). I've been using LEDs exclusively at home for close to a decade, and the only failure I recall on my own watch was of a fairly early wifi-connected TP-Link RGB bulb.

I use them in all kinds of applications, in enclosed fixtures and open fixtures with good airflow, indoors and out.

Furthermore, with incandescents I always felt it was important to keep spares in stock at home, and buying another package of light bulbs was a semi-regular occurrence. But with LEDs being as reliable as they are for me, I no longer feel compelled to have a stash of spare light bulbs at home.

> And worse, by banning incandescent bulbs outright, the government is preventing any further information from even being gathered.

They aren't outright banned. Many types of incandescent light bulbs remain available, and you're free to burn as many dollars on them as you wish. Is there the possibility that your own misinformation may be clouding your ability to form thoughts and make decisions that are based in reality?
Is the outcome of their X1 purchase?

https://techcrunch.com/2023/06/22/robinhood-acquires-credit-...
Explain how it is not the same case? There seems to be some misunderstanding.

If dependency is licensed under GPL, a commercial project cannot be distributed to users (to run locally), thus it is always offered as a web service instead.

If dependency is licensed under MIT, a commercial project can be distributed to users and run locally.