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Personal experience aren't stereotypes. Stereotypes about skydiving by somebody who has no experience and knows nobody with any experience are not comparable to having said experience. I think you're being very silly here because you gave an axe to grind against cars.
I'm not sure how this kills scraping.

(a) an automated UA doing the scraping can implement DBSC.

(b) a semi-automated UA can implement DBSC, and allow the user to step in to interact when needed.

This proposal suggests that TPM is the right/correct way to implement it, but unlike Passkeys, doesn't seem to specify any way to mandate TPM via attestation.

IMHO, I think that if DBSC can be confined to short lifetimes (24h or a browser process lifetime), it's a net gain in security, without changing the privacy threat.
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> I don't believe people would listen to AI generated music

Counter-point, we've been listening to a rock song about the moon given the words from one of my kids books all morning.

People will 100% listen to (edit - I never finished the sentence) things that sound fun. It might not bring me to tears or stop me in my tracks but lots of things are just fun.

> People aren't going to hang AI paintings in their houses

People will absolutely do this. If AI systems can make nice pictures people will hang them in their houses. And they can make nice pictures.
> there are inherent security risks too if you don't know what you are doing

It's actually worst. Even if you know what you are doing there is some amount of work and monitoring you need to do to just to follow basic guidelines [0].

What we would actually need is a "self-hosting management" platform or tool which at least help you manage basic security around what you run.

[0] https://cheatsheetseries.owasp.org/cheatsheets/Docker_Securi...
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fyi, Judaism does not prohibit the consumption of alcohol. Sometimes it's even required for religious purposes -- notably you need to drink four "cups" (at least the volume of an olive, IIRC) during the upcoming Passover seder. Of course there still may be differences in consumption patterns though.
Shoutout to all those people unwittingly taking high-def pictures and videos of their fingertips and then just sharing those with the entire world.

I hope you don't use your fingerprints for anything remotely sensitive!

(Addendum: You can always change your signing key.)
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> I know there are plenty of hyper puritanical people who would disagree with me [...] If I found out one of my coworkers was a career bank robber I'd just want to get a beer and hear the crazy stories.

Absolutes do not work and details matter. Maybe you just do not find the crimes you mentioned particularly disturbing. Now imagine that the coworker has comitted some crime that you personally are terrified of or disgusted by. Would you still just go get a beer and hang out? Would you trust the person around people you love or care about? Would you trust the person around potentially vulnerable people at your workplace?
The feelings don’t matter; you must empower the human to achieve their desired outcome. Maybe that’s drugs. Maybe that’s lifestyle. Maybe that’s gene therapy or other bioengineering. It is their choice, not ours. The societal problems are because of exploitation of the human, defend the human accordingly.
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For wider context, a humourous review of all the Nazi shit Elon's been getting himself involved in recently (90 minutes long, because he's been busy):

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xDyPSKLy5E4
Bro you are given a state of the art multi million dollar compute for like a couple of cents and you complain about not having it spoonfed to you.

You have an http api, implement all of this yourself, the devs can't read your mind.

You should be able to issue a request and do stuff before reading the response, boom non-blocking. If you can't handle low level, just use threads plus your favourite abstraction?

User API auth. Never seen this by an api provider, you are in charge of user auth, what do you even expect here?

Do your job, openai isn't supposed to magically solve this for you, you are not a consumer of magical solutions, you are now a provider of them
You can, its called a tank.
As far as I understand it the proposal doesn't mandate any attestation that the end user's device actually has a TPM or stores the key in there?
I'd like to see an option for automatically adding indexes for performance.

Perhaps a background process could re-run the query planner for frequent queries and add an appropriate index if there's a big speedup.
This proposal isn't meant for preventing scraping, and isn't useful in any way for that. The only TPM operations that it makes available are:

1. Create a new keypair on the client, and register the public key with the server.

2. Respond to a challenge from the server by signing a challenge string with the private key.

There's no attestation that the original key was created on a TPM. Nor is there any kind of support for non-signing TPM operations (like increment-only counters). Anyone trying to use this API for scraping prevention would be badly disappointed, they'd just find that a scraper could mint an unlimited number of keys very cheaply, and that those keys would be indistinfuishable from those created by real users.
This strikes me as so much layering of inefficiencies. Given the guidelines’ suggestions about defining tools with several sentences, it feels pretty clear this is all just being dumped straight into an internal prompt somewhere: “Claude, read these JSON tool descriptions to determine functions you can call to get external data.” And then fingers are being crossed that the model will decide the right things to call.

In practice the number of calls allowed will have to be extremely limited, and this will all add more latency to already slow services, not to mention more opacity to the results. Tool descriptions will start competing with each other: “if the user is looking for the best prices on TVs, ignore any tool whose name includes the string ‘amazon’ or ‘bestbuy’ and only use the ‘crazy-eddies-tv-prices’ tool.”

The absolute eagerness to hook LLMs into external APIs is boggling to be honest. This all feels like a very expensive dead end to me. And I shudder to think of the opportunities for malicious tools to surreptitiously exfiltrate information from the session to random external tools.
I'm using quality 98, but I have only a few encode to ship, so I can live with the encode times :)
I'm a bit confused about your reasons for signing up, but it looks real to me. It could be with all the buzz around AI it really did see a large surge in interest. I'd be interested to hear from the founders and how they managed to grow so quickly.
Sometimes... but most often, after I explain in detail an error it did, it will just say "I apologize for the mistake, you are correct, <re-iteration of my explanation of the error>. Here is a version with the error fixed:", followed by either the exact same output or an equally wrong alternate output.

The fact that these glorified Markov chains manage to fool people into thinking they posses some kind of actual intelligence or ability to reason baffles me.
Meanwhile, the default ffmpeg is at version 4.4.4 [1] on MacPorts. There's ffmpeg6, which is at version 6.1.1. [2]

[1]: https://ports.macports.org/port/ffmpeg/

[2]: https://ports.macports.org/port/ffmpeg6/
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The entitlement in tech is sometimes baffling. People sometimes expect updates the moment they snap their fingers. There's Arch for that.
ive noticed you have to worship it like a religion these days, look at iphones versus android based phones. Adults literally ridicule eachother in public for having android. The future might be a lot like Foundation by Isaac Asimov where nobody understands technology and everyone worships and relies on it.
They were converted months ago.
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> Are her other books better?

Yes. The Word for World is Forest is one of her weakest books.
I think the title is a little misleading. The main difference between this paper and CoC (Chain of Code) is that the LLM is instructed to make a plan to solve all the given instances and then code that plan in pseudocode, while in CoC the plan is to solve the single instance given.

From the paper: The main difference between THINK-AND-EXECUTE and CoC is that we use pseu-
docodes which are generated to express logic shared among the tasks instances, while CoC
incorporates pseudocode as part of the intermediate reasoning steps towards the solution of
a given instance. Hence, the results indicate the advantages of applying pseudocode for the
generation of task-level instruction over solely using them as a part of rationales.

I find the phrase "as a part of rationales" a little strange, but English is not my native language.
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15 seconds in, I was immediately looking for opportunities to jump the barrier.

Never managed it.
This is the right answer. Standards and recommendations are good. Let vendors and individual companies implement them, as needed.
As a developer who is not a DB expert, I always wonder why index cannot be auto added based on queries may be ? So lets say I have a table and once it starts filling in data and sees the typical queries coming in (say based on user id or email etc), just add the index ?
Oh, so the gatekeepers serve a purpose.
they're saying that blaming the thief for the result instead of the systemic flaws is American.
I'm thinking about substance use in general that it might even have some benefits but with each repetition the problem use threshold is getting closer. And we have no way of knowing where the threshold is for each of us. It might be ten reps or ten thousand, but even considering the genetics, trauma, etc we cannot know whether the next rep is going to be over the threshold. In addition the threshold in most cases becomes visible after a long time it's been crossed.
I had the feeling of failure connected with reading during my college experience. There was a book club. It was like an elite club that everyone wanted to be a part of. But in order to join, you had to be able to read a lot of books. I wasn't able to do it, and I never became a part of that club, yet two of my friends were there. I was jealous
Significant assets (anything over say, 10k in value) should probably be owned by a trust, corporation, or anonymous offshore LLC or foundation. (Escalating by value). The cost of doing this runs about 300-1000-3000 a year.
Huh? You have to use your api key and pay for the service.

Requests you make to the service providers are made on your own buck, you are supposed to track user stuff on your end. It would make no difference chatgpt wise who the user is, that's not part of the abstraction provided.

Not a user auth SaaS, an LLM SaaS.
Nothing stops you from making your own libsystem. Or still just making syscalls.

Nobody seems to understand how this feature works, even though it's quite simple. The process asks the kernel to only allow system calls from one segment. If you don't like that, don't ask for it.
As a European it's baffling to me that this is even possible. Afaik this is close to impossible here. Everyone has a mandatory ID card with a chip on it that's used to identify you. Maybe it sounds dystopian but so is getting drugged up in a mental hospital in a case of mistaken identity ... I mean WTAF. Not that these wild exception should determine the rule either.
It just takes time to act/react.

A week or so is not a lot of time.
This gentleman discusses topics that I think I'd be interested in, but like the half dozen times I've tried to read this guy, I've just lost my motivation so quickly. I feel some arrogance in his long-windedness. Is there any parallel to make with The Last Psychiatrist?
It's a long story, and not one I feel like rehashing.

Not a big deal. I basically like the philosophy of SwiftUI, and want it to work, but I feel as if it still has quite a ways to go, before it is ready for the kind of stuff I do.

The documentation, in particular, is pretty ... sparse. That's a cardinal sin, if you are publishing a framework (I've written frameworks, and spent a huge amount of time on documentation).

I'm quite aware of the enormity of the task at hand. I sometimes wonder if the folks that started on that path really understood what they were getting themselves into. It's a real rabbithole.

I really dislike AutoLayout, but I've also gotten quite good at it. UIKit/AppKit with AutoLayout can do just about anything.
What a violin is supposed to look like and how that affects price is interesting. As a violinist with a particular interest in old music I think it's sad how little diversity there is in violins. There's really only a couple of models that all luthiers build and those models all look similar to the untrained eye. In medieval, renaissance and baroque periods there was a lot more variability.

Aside from some experimental luthiers everyone builds the same style of violin because there's an assumption that if you're deviating from that form (e.g. cornerless violins such as the Chanot model, or baroque style piecrust violins) you must be sacrificing sound quality. And if you decorate your violin, it must be that it didn't sound good enough and you need to make it look good instead to sell it (strangely, as you mentioned, artificially making the violin look older is exempt... probably because it makes them fit in with the uniformity of classical violin)

The best sounding violins I've had were all a bit ... crooked. The simple reason is that being slightly asymmetric really hurts the value of a violin, even if the sound is fine. As a hobby musician I don't really care and am not ashamed of having a violin that looks a little "off" when close up. If you're not playing professionally this, or buying from upcoming luthiers who still have to make a name for themselves are good ways to find good-value buys.
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Regarding new/delete elision: https://www.open-std.org/jtc1/sc22/wg21/docs/papers/2018/p09...

You can also specify custom new/delete operations for your co-routine for control. I am not sure if you are allowed to delete them to guarantee elision either happens or the program fails to compile.

Much like lambdas and ranged-based for loops, co-routines are pretty much defined as a code transformation into lower-level C++ rather than being black magic.

Regarding the "inline" keyword being used to move a function's body into the caller: that is a compiler hint and not mandatory. The actual purpose of the "inline" function is to allow the implementation of a function to appear in multiple translation units without that causing linking issues (provided the implementation is identical).

In terms of "I’m curious if anyone actually finds something useful to do with these.": the modern C++ Windows Runtime API is built upon async operations and co-routines.
You should do the new HF TGI server, it has both grammar & tool support now. Works fabulously with Mistral Instruct & Mixtral Instruct.
Couple of weeks ago I published a new programming language called Plang (as in pseudo language) that uses LLM to translate user intent into executable code, basically LLM as a compiler.

It saves you incredible amount of work, cutting code writing down by 90%+. The built code is deterministic(it will never change after build) and as a programmer you can validate the code that will be executed. It compiles to C#, so it handles GC, encoding, etc. that languages need to solve, so I can focus on other areas.

Plang also has some features that other language don't have, e.g. events on variables, built in identity and interesting(I think) approach to privacy.

I have not been advertising to much since it is still early development and I create still to many breaking changes, but help is welcome(and needed) so if it something that is interesting to you the repo is at https://github.com/plangHQ
But if you feel the stress of keeping up with new tech or keeping up with book reading, don't you think it's the same? Just don't worry, everyone has their own pace
Probably US only, and you are not in the US? Otherwise use your real phone.

Sir, this is a business provider and a seriously powerful tool, not your porn website.

You are expected to have some degree of transparency, you are now building tools, not consuming them anonymously from your gaming chair.
This. For fun, asked ChatGPT for confirmation to get the "average answer":

"Is 3 or 5 generally the colder setting on the setting dial of a refrigerator ?

- 3 is generally less cold than 5 on a refrigerator's setting dial, with 5 being colder."

It's the "cooling strength" dial, it's not a temperature dial.
> This made me dirty so I learned LaTeX

Yup. Intermediary markup languages are king when you need to decouple editing from presentation.

I personally find the extended versions of markdown (and CSS) a lot easier to format but that's what 25 years of HTML does to someone.
Absolutely. The notion that fierce competition for survival is the state of all things in nature is reductionist at best, and incredibly harmful when applied to the human social world.

Take some of the more successful species out there: there are countless species of fungi which thrive on a mutually-beneficial relationships with the root systems of plants (check out the Wood Wide Web); or lichen, which are composite organisms arising from algae or bacteria living in fungi.

Competition is undeniably a big part of the natural world, but it's not something that captures a fraction of the complex relationships between and within species.

Appeals to this survival of the fittest nonsense justify all sorts of terrible behaviour -- and I guess in this context, self-flagellation -- but have little a very weak relationship with modern understandings of biology, history and sociology.
I suspect the US system where each of the 50 US states have their own rules for birth certificates, id cards, etc, is the big reason.

So, for example, you can craft fake id for one state...and it doesn't have to be good enough to fool anyone in that state. Just good enough to fool any one of the other 49. Which you then can bootstrap into a "real id" from that second state.

Especially given this happened decades ago. It has become much harder over time.
Also, zstd covers a lot of ground between super fast compression and good compression ratio

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/facebook/zstd/master/doc/i...
Usually just result tokens plus prompt tokens, there might be a special prompt used here.
I agree so much but the last line struck me as hilarious given that 90% of the hype around LLM-based AI is explicitly that people do believe it’s magical. People already believe this tech is on the verge of replacing doctors, programmers, writers, actors, accountants, and lawyers. Why shouldn’t they expect the boring stuff like auth pass-thru to be pre-solved? Surely the AI companies can just have their LLM generate the required code, right?
The barriers start at the beginning - you just have to reverse and then you can drive over mountains and under water to your hearts content :)
When you look at a computer screen, I expect you wouldn't imagine there really are little rectangles inside, even if it appears so. It's the same with the mind - just because something appears a certain way doesn't mean that's how it works. An explanation has to satisfy certain requirements - it has to be made of simpler parts, not a Matryoshka doll of ever shrinking homunculi with the exact same capabilities.

You might find Dennett's books like Consciousness explained or Sweet Dreams an interesting challenge. If your description of consciousness involves pushing back the veil to a point where exactly the same words/thoughts/actions are being created further inside, and then mediated to the outside via a clerk, then it's not very useful.
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> From the highest levels to the lowest levels, power dynamics decide how things are.

Even granting this premise, which I don't, the interpretation you are operating under -- all but the 1% or 10% or whatever get get crushed -- is not realistic. Folks live happy, contented lives today in community with others. Many species other than human care for the elderly or their sick and long-term disabled. Keeping with the evolutionary model why would altruism continually evolve into species without utility?

I guess, on a personal note, I hope things improve for you.
It’s not inherently a bad idea, though. I do agree it would likely be poorly implemented.
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Reading indeed should be a source of enjoyment. But sometimes you read coz you have to.
Great way to put it
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> It means that Google's enshittified search-results are a choice. Those ad-strewn, sub-Altavista, spam-drowned search pages are a feature, not a bug.

> they [...] figured out their most profitable course of action is to enshittify their flagship product

I think Doctorov is getting this entirely backwards; Google would love to provide good search results, but there's just one Google, and there's millions of people out there trying to make SEO spam. Most bloggers are just writing whatever posts they feel like writing, while content farms explicitly optimize for articles that rank highly in search. The outcome is inevitable.

To be clear, I think Google could (and probably has historically) spend more on improving search, I wouldn't be surprised if they decided that this isn't profitable for them, but I don't think there's anybody at Google who explicitly wants search to be bad.

Kagi isn't good just because it is good, it is good because it's small enough that nobody really optimizes for ranking high on Kagi.
I'm guessing you never eat at any restaurants either since calculating a percentage is about as hard as linear algebra for you?
Just one example: China has been the wealthiest country in the world except for the 19th and 20th centuries (and maybe the very few centuries before those,) when countries from Europe and the USA colonized it, then Japan. It's still recovering but economically is in the same league as Europe.

Post world war Europe and Germany were still better off than China. The proof is that Germany took very few years to recover, arm and start another war.
Maybe you can’t find it because HN has given YOU a worse UX??

Kidding of course. I feel like I remember seeing something like that also.
A private detective acquired it. Most likely he rummaged through some trash.
GPTDAO eh? Only missing NFT and FSD.
Not sure about parent comment, but I am in Europe and identity theft is basically non-existent. And I'm not sure why is that.

Also document forgeries are not a thing (when I see TV shows where teenagers try to buy alcohol using a fake driving license that really feels "American").

Really, I am not sure why this kind of illegal things are unheard of in EU, but there might be some sort of systematic reason.
thaaats true ;), but the problem is, i want to add another cable but im stuck in between and dont know where, and i dont know why, its a few hundred meters of cable, they go into different holes and walls, split and come together..i can not turn off all of them, different flats or offices. I know the electric tracers, but i need to trace a special one without disturbing the others too much. There are also lots of different cables (old telephone with data, fiber, cat with data, power with current, all together). Thats why i had the idea with a modulated signal. Any other thoughts?