skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> unless they make it an aggressive form of Clippy

I'm starting to think that I'd prefer that to Copilot branding. It started as a joke, but the more I think about it the more I think the LLMs should be represented as cartoonish idiots with a face you want to punch, and that we are going exactly backwards in the branding from Clippy to Cortana to Copilot. As the text gets too easy to anthropomorphize as "human-like" I think we need the visual reminder that it is still a grandiloquent idiot. We should have been making the visual brands of these things more cartoonish and less serious, rather than the other way around.

Now is the time for a Bonzi Buddy to reign.

Of course, I'm a bit of an Microsoft Agent apologist having programmed quite a few weird things with it in High School that obviously didn't survive bit-rot. I really want to see the fun (and maybe unhinged) things that an LLM would do if it was trained to produce scripts for the Agent cartoon characters.
I think KILT DIDs look to hold the tech answer to this type of problem.
https://www.bitdigest.io/posts/taking-control-secure-identit...
> public

Have you never heard of copyright or licenses? Or what is your point?
> we should insist that KYC be solely performed by banks

That sounds like a great way of preventing anyone who doesn’t have a bank account from being able to use services at all.

There are ~1.7 Billion people in the world that are unbanked.

Even in the US alone there are around 55 million unbanked adults. (2018 numbers)

I think we should push for the opposite. Less KYC all around.
Is this sarcasm? Most banks don't write software, and the third-party software isn't that great. I don't want my bank involved in this at all.
What an amazing look into one of the greatest minds in programming!

Thank you for this treasure.

The relevant bits:

> I am now allowing the client to guess at the results of the users movement until the authoritative response from the server comes through. This is a biiiig architectural change. The client now needs to know about solidity of objects, friction, gravity, etc. I am sad to see the elegent client-as-terminal setup go away, but I am practical above idealistic.

> The server is still the final word, so the client is allways repredicting it's movement based off of the last known good message from the server.
It is not. It is a significantly upgraded engine.
Idk. I have a cheap grinder that grinds unevenly, so at least it is not uniformly too fine.

The barista in the video does use fine grind for this no bloom method, though, so it makes sense. I like the result of the no bloom with my grinder though, so I am happy with it
Plastic welding is a thing, and has been used ever since the discovery of thermoplastics. Solvent glues also work well for some types of plastic.

The only reason why it's not more common is usually due to cost of repair vs replacement.

Thanks to YouTube, you can now find plenty of information on this.

I can work with metal. I can't work with plastic.

How about pot metal, which is what has been replaced by plastic in many applications?
As a PhD Materials Scientist with a business degree, I don't think you understand the Tesla business case. I invite you to read Tesla's SEC filings carefully. I found the business case to be extremely compelling when I bought 3400 shares at 16$.

I still find deep value in the stock despite relentless negative sentiment from people who have no idea what an absolute juggernaut the company is. Comparing Tesla to Enron or pets.com is absurd. Tesla is on another planet in comparison.

The idea that Tesla investors have been duped is also absurd. I follow the company's developments closely and have driven FSD for years. They have an unassailable advantage in the coming networked renewable energy market and are on track to implement high margin recurring revenue digital services across their class leading hardware products, which include EVs, home storage, and grid scale storage. The latter two have just moved out of the Tesla Roadster era of development and are achieving scale just as solar and wind deployment reaches wide scale adoption.

Good luck to all who see promise in a renewable future. Sorry to those who don't get it.
the reason they're doing this is because of credit card fraud. the attacker takes a stolen credit card, signs up for their service, and then runs up a huge bill. when the credit card owner discovers this, they do a chargeback, which means the hosting provider is out the money. do this enough times and the hosting provider gets kicked off their credit card processor and can't take payments anymore.

so yeah, it sucks, especially for privacy aficionados. there are places online that will take your untraceable Moreno (XMR) for hosting, but they end up getting used to anonymously host CSAM until the feds take that and hopefully the people creating that down as well.
I have thought about writing a program that makes Morse Code ringtones that could used for contacts. Next step would be program that changed the ringtones for contacts to the name or whatever was entered.

Unfortunately, I don't think it is possible to control vibrate patterns, at least not for notifications.
OK, how about these for a 3rd way?

Shun rivalrous goods
Explore
Be inquisitive
Examine both old and new
Be ungovernable
Be independent
Yakshave and explore rabbit holes
Use both nonfiction and fiction for the sake of the game
Be deep
Spread non-rivalrous goods
Cite sources
Collaborate with colleagues; exclude lusers
Sit in a comfy chair but have a long attention span
Be realistic
Treasure woolgathering

(Commercial Syndrome is a contact game; Guardian Syndrom a collision game; and the new syndrome as a non-contact, thinking, game")
Unsettled science on longer-run effects of early education
Not in a thousand years.
Believe it or not, I feel the same way. But writing angry screed on the internet accomplishes literally nothing. Worse, it further entreches the people you disagree with.
If you check the byline, the author is a Microsoft MVP / product evangelist. So I don't think he's biased towards SO so much as he is biased towards anyone doing business with Microsoft (or OpenAI). He also seems very pro-GitHub Copilot.
Clean energy on the cusp of rolling back fossil fuels: Report
Good for you. I'm not. I contributed answers to StackOverflow because I use answers other have contributed to StackOverflow, not to ChatGPT, not for ChatGPT to monetize. I don't use ChatGPT and probably never will.
GraphQL Yoga Integration with Cloudflare Workers
Awesome, been looking for this information for ages already.
that's the great male sedation hypothesis
That's exactly what I thought of. It's cool but it's been done. The telectroscope had a fun story too.
agreed, I don't recall any large cloud or VPS provider asking for an ID.. maybe a French thing?
Like... a fake one, or someone else's?
The issue OP has here isn't that they want anonymity, it's that the demands that this particular hosting provider is making are bizarre.

This is not the norm yet for hosting providers, and you don't have to pay with Monero to avoid having to send a photo of the credit card you used to pay for a service. Just pick almost any other hosting provider and they'll happily accept your credit card via an online checkout flow and be done with it until they get an abuse report.
I think the difference is for me (even as a sports fan) is it’s all to save a billionaire owner some cash. I don’t mind spending/losing money on culture; I’m not a fan of doing it to line the pockets of someone who is already stupidly rich.
Are they using math correctly? If they talk about the difference they should say 25% instead of 125%, am I missing something?
Not even Max Howell thinks Max Howell has a great attitude. He's often a dick in his own words. Maybe Google would have found a different job for him if he wasn't.

He said 90% of Google engineers used Homebrew. Google engineers said it wasn't true.[1]

He said Homebrew using OS libraries saved a lot of pain. He presented it as an example of why Google should have hired him. Actually it caused enough pain Homebrew stopped it.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23844936
Blur everything but your name and photo and then unblur pieces of it until they accept it. Also make sure to watermark it with repeating 10px red text saying “only for purposes of ID verification with OVH.”
I've been looking for an openapi TUI all my life <3
It lowers the value of the site if people stop answering and sabotage their existing answers in protest. Does that make sense? Do you understand?
> isn't a working understanding, it's essentially memorization

Boring questions that you've seen before are memorization. But there's thousands of interesting questions out there that will never show up on leetcode.

Two examples from times I've been interviewed:

- One time my interviewer gave me about 15 lines of C code that used multiple threads and asked me if it was threadsafe (it wasn't). Then he gave me some threading primitive I hadn't seen before and asked me to fix it. Well, I had no idea what the threading primitive was so I was a bit stuffed. I asked him to explain it and he did, and then I (successfully) used it to solve the problem. He wanted to hire me, saying the fact that I hadn't seen that primitive before and still managed to figure out the answer within the interview impressed him more than anything else.

- Another time I was asked some more classic algorithm problem, where (in hindsight) the answer was clearly to use a priority queue. I didn't think of that, and under pressure I came up with some weird alternative in the interview. The interviewer messaged privately after the interview - he'd gone back to his desk and spent the next hour trying to figure out if my hairbrained idea would work, and he was as surprised as I was to realise it would. I told him I'd realised a priority queue was a good approach as soon as I walked out the door of the interview. I was offered the job.

I've never "crammed leetcode problems" in my life. I don't think thats what any interviewers are looking for. They're looking for people who can think on their feet and use DSA to solve real problems. AFAIK algorithm puzzle interviews predate leetcode. Algorithms have been used since the very early days of google and (I think) microsoft.
The first sentence in the article is:

> A new material structure could revolutionize energy storage by enabling the capacitors in electric vehicles or devices to store energy for much longer, scientists say.
> Once it knows that Henry VIII had many wives, it doesn't need to keep reading that he had those wives.

That's actually incorrect, it needs to constantly ingest new data. If it ingests enough data (from other LLMs that are hallucinating, for example), then suddenly when it has enough bad data it'll start telling you that Henry VIII was a famous video game on the Sony 64.

It has no concept of 'truthfulness' beyond the amount of data that it can draw correlations from. And by nature LLMs have to ingest as much data as possible in order to draw accurate results from new things. LLMs cannot function without parasitizing off of user generated content, and if user generated content vanishes then it collapses in on itself.
I think they're in crisis because they sold out there community not because LLMs are better. As a developer, if you offer me StackOverflow vs ChatGPT, I'd take StackOverflow any day of the week 100x over.
If I asked my partner to provide an argument for why earth is flat, she would do it. She doesn't think (or have to think) the earth is flat to make an argument.

I'd expect an AI trained on human conversation to act the same and I'd be frustrated if it declined to do so, the same way I'd be frustrated if a friend also declined to do so.
A billion a year is actually pretty small compared with the size of the budget. When considering how central sports are to American culture, it seems like a steal. This is like someone who makes $200k a year and asking them if they’d spend $10 to have sports stadiums in their country.
> So even 2000-3000 ppm, which is quite noticeably stuffy and uncomfortable is only .2-.3%.

That's certainly the consensus internet "fact", which is presumably why this tweet was posted in the first place. Which poses the question, are astronauts on the space station uncomfortable?
I'm with OVH and I've not had to do this.
KYC is actually a clever trick by the government to pass the buck to the banks to verify if transactions are illegal or not. The main reason is that when you are dealing with the government, you are innocent until proven guilty. Using the banks to money launder? It’s up to the government to prove it and bring charges or its business as usual for you.

With banks having that power, you’re guilty until you prove innocence. Haven’t committed any crimes? Doesn’t matter, you’re banned by default and after you provide ID, we’ll let you bank. Oh and if for any reason, we can ban you and you have no recourse. We won’t tell you the reason either. It’s a great way for the government to not actually go after the money launderers and give the keys of doing business to a select few.
TLDR: guy builds a bunch of umbrellas, but fails to answer the question posed in the title.
In thinking about this, I think the email is fake and this is an attempt at scamming you.
Bottled water is invaluable in places where the naturally occurring water is not potable.
It's only a recent proposal in the US, not law, if you're talking about what I think you are:

https://torrentfreak.com/u-s-know-your-customer-proposal-wil...

>>>
Late January, the U.S. Department of Commerce published a notice of proposed rulemaking for establishing new requirements for Infrastructure as a Service providers (IaaS) . The proposal boils down to a 'Know Your Customer' regime for companies operating cloud services...
The inverted method is an even easier way to achieve this :)
Why hello there Ms Streisand
I pay for a vps with a credit card, isn't this essentially the banking system doing the same thing?
When I saw Avengers Endgame, seeing Thanos eradicate 50% of population for his perspective of “greater good” was chilling.

With escalated tensions between super powers, I fear one crazy dictator may push a button to drop a nuke at a populated US city in the name of “most efficient way to reduce warming”. That escapes to a nuclear war.

Nuclear war from physics would work as the smoke would block the sun having a cooling effect, and less people would mean less emissions. But people would need to live underground and it would be an absolute shit life worse than living in a warm world.

Life is short, but I have this intrinsic fear that humans may perish before they figure out how to become a multi planet species.
Hosting providers get an obscene amount of fraudulent sign-up attempts, including attempts where they try to assume the identity of the person they have acquired the passport scan/photo of.

I don't like it, but it's very understandable.
I’ve used co2 monitors (calibrated) and it’s quite noticable (as in ‘why is it so stuffy in here?’ then check and ‘ah, duh’).

The astronauts likely just get used to it.
Also https://github.com/google/zopfli and https://github.com/google/brotli
Microsoft reveals offline AI model for intelligence agencies
Why OVH? I've had awful experience using their services... Vultr, Linode, UpCloud, Hetzner are far better options... none of them require this nonsense.
What always struck me about Chomskyists is that they chose a notion of interpretable model that required unrealistic amounts of working interpretation. So Chomsky grammars have significant polynomial memory and computational costs for grammars as they approach something resembling human grammar. And you say, ok, the human brain can handle much more computation than that, and that's fine. But (for example) context-free grammars aren't just O(n^3) in computational cost; for a realistic description of human language they're O(n^3) in human-interpretable rules.

Other Chomsky-like models of human grammars have different asymptotic behavior and different choices of n, but the same fundamental problem; the big-O constant factor isn't neurons firing but rather human connections between the n inputs. How can you conceive of human minds being able to track O(n^3) (or whatever) cost where that n is everything being communicated -- words, concepts, symbols, representations, all that jazz and the polynomial relationships between them?

But I feel an apology is in order: I've had quite a few beers before coming home, and it's probably a mistake to try to express academically charged and difficult views on the Internet while in an inebriated state. Probably the alcohol has substantially decreased my mental computational power. However, it has only mildly impaired my ability to string together words and sentences in a grammatically complex fashion. In fact, I often feel that the more sober and clear-minded I am, the simpler my language is. Maybe human grammar is actually sub-polynomial. I have observed the same in ChatGPT; the more flowery and wordy it has become over time, the dumber its output.
I’ve been using the Go version of Encore for the past year. Overall it’s been really pleasant, a few rough edges that their team helped resolve, but it saved so much time on Ops that it was well worth it.
But the content you posted to SO was already permissively licensed. Other people can copy it, and make derivative works, and even charge money for them, as long as they cite your SO handle as the author. https://meta.stackexchange.com/questions/347758/creative-com...
For sure. Everyone here who doesn’t carry a bag knows the routine: you stand up to leave and pat your pockets to make sure they’re all filled with the expected things. I also have a glasses case that’s always holding either my regular glasses or sunglasses. My umbrella goes right to the umbrella holder.

Huh, spelling it all out that sounds similar to my ADHD rituals, for good reason. I’ve done so many things until they’re automatic habits.
Go: Advent of Code 2015, dia 1: Hello Buffer
There are lots of VPS providers, why not just choose one that meets your expectations for privacy, security, etc?

The power of the market is when customers refuse to go along with unacceptable demands.
Pareto principle in action I suppose
haha! well, you're being harsher on your own work than i think it deserves

hammer works pretty well, i think, even the ast generation part. judicious application of semantic actions can give you whatever ast you want, if you're willing to stick to the peg backend anyway

i'm curious what you think about the prototype arena allocator i linked above; i wrote it originally as a candidate replacement for hammer's
Yes.

Ultimately the internet is a lawless extremely low trust place, because it isn't limited by borders, so there is no effective law enforcement over a significant fraction of the people on it. Hosting providers bear a fair bit of the brunt of this because they're a staging ground for doing actually evil things.

I want to work with high trust places. I don't want an IP address that was just being used to hack people. I don't want to have to jump through hoops that verify I'm not doing evil things before doing things. I want to be offered things that can't be offered to people who are abusing trust, like generous free trials.

Verifying I'm an actual person in a place where they can pursue me through a functional legal system and functional law enforcement agencies is a step that allows the trust level to be stepped up slightly from "literally none". That's a good thing IMHO.

And I already have no privacy when I'm paying with a credit card under my real name. There's no actual cost here to me.

That said, I'd be very careful I was actually sending that information to a reputable hosting company, because the internet is a lawless place and there are definitely people who would try and pretend to be your hosting company.
I appreciate people that post themselves working on open-source projects in an approachable way like this kind gentleman. He’s very thoughtful in his explanations. Seems like he intended to be beginner friendly, and I think he succeeds at that aim.
An ultra-lightweight native Discord client for vintage and modern Mac OS
Anyone else get flashbacks of evaluating software purchases for a company, only to be completely overruled by someone who was clearly getting some kind of kickback from the vendor?

I kinda wish someone would set up a class action lawsuit for all the stress caused by having to deal with Jira, HPSM, and the like.
> Which could be taken to heart by people insisting that government should go back to some imagined simpler past. Those old processes are obsolete; there's no going back. But that's another tale.

It isn't imagined, and there's no reason government ever needed to turn into a giant, bloated bureaucracy that's more interested in sustaining its own existence and growing ever-larger. In the United States, for example, the federal government alone is the largest employer in the entire world. Yes, bigger than the governments of countries that have three times as many people.

Loved the rest of your comment though :)
Comments moved to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40297027.
Europe's Technological Economic and Cultural Relative Decline
> the more acidity flavors are extracted later

The first compounds to be extracted with coffee tend to taste sharply sour, shifting to sweet and then to bitter as the brew progresses - you can actually taste this directly by sampling a bit of the coffee that drips out at the start, middle, and end phases of your brew.

I found this guide to be helpful when I was first getting started: https://www.homegrounds.co/wp-content/uploads/2021/10/Coffee...
LOL. I'm much much worse. I played with it for like 2 minutes and had no idea what was going on and gave up. Maybe because I never used that machine game is was patterned after? :-)
Could someone give us a link to that song?
Right, but they can just use Llama/Mistral for free, instead of their inferior models, which I'm sure take quite a bit of resources to train in the first place.
I'm curious to how this applies to the Aeropress because in that system, you actively stir the coffee for several seconds.
Also Tanzania.
it's not bizarre and totally makes sense from the perspective of the hosting company being used for nefarious purposes and not wanting to get shut down. tragedy of the commons and all.
This is probably what you're thinking of [0]. The comments period is closed, but as far as I know it hasn't actually become a rule yet, and regardless:

* The rule would only apply to people living outside the US, so if you pay with a credit card with a billing address in the US from an IP in the US they probably wouldn't need to KYC you.

* KYC != "send me a photo of you holding your driver's license". I can open a bank account by just typing in my name, address, birthday, and SSN. That's enough KYC for a bank, it would be more than enough for a hosting provider even if that proposed rule became law.

What this company is asking for is beyond the pale even by full finance KYC standards. The most likely explanation is that an automated fraud detection system got set off and OP was selected for a much more rigorous review than they typically do.

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40158752
A giant country needs more governing. Dreaming about 'going back' is fantasy.

Sure there's plenty of things to improve. Just don't break everything before fixing it; people's lives depend on it.
> the song commonly known as “願榮光歸香港” or “Glory to Hong Kong”

I'd never heard of it until now.

> the Song first emerged in August 2019 in the form of a video publicly accessible on a channel “Dgx Music” on the YouTube. The composer of the Song used a pseudonym “Thomas dgx yhl”

OK, so here are multiple versions of the song: https://www.youtube.com/@Dgxmusic

EDIT: Great job, Google, I see where you stand. The first song is blocked: "Sign in to confirm your age. This video may be inappropriate for some users." Yeah no.