skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You know you should memorize all your passwords? And have a unique one for every website? All 100+ of them?
I had the briefcase experience (except it was a portable glass display case with every drug under the sun). Looked like a bunch of candy to me as a kid. I think they even had a fake version placed next to the real thing?

One thing they did that has stuck with me though was this plastic bag contraption with some material inside to represent the human lungs. There was a hole at the top which the DARE officer placed a lit cigarette, then began (somehow) pumping air from the hole down into the lung material. I remember watching the material quickly go from white to brown and tarry. By the time the cigarette was out, she looked us all in the eyes and said "this is what smoking does to your lungs"
Boeing may face criminal prosecution over 737 MAX crashes
A game called 4D Golf came out recently if you want to try interacting with the physics of minigolf in 4 spatial dimensions.
An update: I was using certbot with an internal address, which explains why certbot certonly did not work when it uses a self-hosted web server and webroot. But, there is still definitely something weird about using preferred-challenge dns + manual mode, the acme-challenge TXT records do not show up in the Google dashboard.
Oh well... It seems at least one of those two things have to be true: either AGI is so far away that "alignment" (whatever it means) is unnecessary; or, as you suggest, Altman et al. have decided it's a hindrance to commercial success.

I tend to believe the former, but it's possible those two things are true at the same time.
What I've found is that many sites are offering an RSS feed even if they don't necessarily know about it. If I had to guess Wordpress has it built in and so many sites are built on heavily customized Wordpress instances that it still works. You usually have to search the page source to get the link though
Supply hasn't really been an issue since the Pi5 launched, PiLocator shows that nearly every official vendor has both variants in stock right now.
Which is great until plastics that we want to keep using start getting eaten by bacteria.
Github Repo: https://github.com/julep-ai/julep/

Discord: https://discord.gg/sbKpYttH2M
And here lies the difference. I do not care if I read the same post again, as I only follow those creators that create something worth getting back to. I do not care if I visit their blog and do not find any new content, for their old content is good and worth rereading. I do not care about syncing, as I have only laptop and a phone, and tend to use the first one. I do not need to navigate through incompatible interfaces, as they all consists of text and hyperlinks. And I have no issue with remembering all the names, since there is like 5 of them.

So like I said, no effort.
It can be stretched FOREVER as long as the USD is the primary international currency reserve. Effectively, the rest of the world continually sponsors the U.S. debt - and its international war industry.

Once the USD stops being the primary reserve currency, then inflation will skyrocket and things become truly painful. The U.S. will feel the pinch like other nations whose economies have collapsed as a result of runaway spending.
The use of LLM's as pseudo-friends or girlfriends for people as a market solution for loneliness is so incredibly sad and dystopian. Genuinely one of the most unsettling goddamn things I've seen gain traction since I've been in this industry.

And so many otherwise perfectly normal products are now employing addiction mechanics to drive engagement, but somehow this one is just even further over the line for me in a way I can't articulate. I'm so sick of startups taking advantage of people. So, so fucking gross.
I'll just point to the theory that they didn't want to work for a megacorp creating tools for other megacorps (or worse) and actually believed in OpenAI's (initial) mission to further humanity. The tools are going to be used by deep pocketed entities for their purposes, the compute resources necessary require that to be the case for the foreseeable future.
At least in my area, Lens has been uselessly bad for plants. Actually it's bad for anything non-commercial IME.

Seek on the other hand, which a sibling comment recommended, has been amazing.
Notifications that appear directly in the UI when you open the app are not noise.
Email or other "ID" fields as well. I use 1password, and besides the password part, it's nice to just click on a field and copy/paste knowing you wont make a typo.
Looking up an estimate of the brain's input bandwidth at 10 million bits per second and multiplying by the second or two a subliminal stimuli can continue to affect a person's behavior. This is a very crude estimate and probably an order of magnitude off, but I don't think many orders of magnitude off.
Sure Google advertises. What about that? GP didn't write "advertises" but rather "sells your data".
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Not the parent comment, but I think he means something like "we know folks will be addicted to this pseudo-person and that is a good thing cause it makes our product valuable", akin to reports that tobacco companies knew the harms and addictive nature of their products and kept steadfast nonetheless. (But I'm speculating as to the parent's actual intent)
I read it as the economics of tobacco (and alcohol and a few other 'vice' industries) that there will invariably be superusers who get addicted and produce the most economic value for companies even while consuming an actively harmful product
Purposely making an addiction machine, most likely.
I have a strong contender. British Gas has removed their bank details from printed statements and their website, because they want to force people to create online accounts and set up Direct Debit.
yeah I can't really think of a good use case for blocking paste. the Clipboard API is useful in general though and a good addition overall even if some people misuse it.
They are at msrp now for large parts of EMEA
Depends what you're trying to do, but some glitches used in speed runs literally depend on the exact values of pixels on the screen

https://youtu.be/0B095eHBrCg?t=24m40s

Not saying that supporting glitches like that is a hard requirement for these ports though
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My insurance company wants to dethrone this awful web site with their own. At least they're working towards it.
Related to https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40267997
This is literally enterprise software in a nutshell.

If you've ever wondered what the "Enterprise Application Server v21.5™ now with AI, Chatbots, LDAP, Active Directory Integration, Orchestration, and Web 3.0" experience looks like, this is it.

This is what happens when you bring enterprise software into the general public's view. This is what enterprise software customers see every day. Remember, at some point in the rollout of this dog, the team sat in a conference room and came to the right conclusion that the portal is terribly difficult to navigate, and thus the bright idea to write an 21 page PDF instruction manual for the portal was handed off to a 18 person team.

Edit update: The "Enterprise Chatbot Integration Plugin v2.1™ for Enterprise Portals - Enterprise Application Server v21.5" was an add on kicker for $1.6MM license revenue and $3.8MM for 21 years of support. This plugin was developed by one person who works for EnterpriseSoftwareCorp Inc at the behest of sales and marketing and management that decried "we must have a Chatbot AI offering for our enterprise customers because they are asking why we don't." The sales exec who inked the contract after the Broadcom merger ended up #4 in the company for sales, went to Hawaii for the EnterpriseSoftwareCorp President's club awards presentation. The Broadcom engineer who was forced to implement this plugin into the Portal just copied the example from the docs (a template of links) and realizes he'll really have to roll his own LLM to add any real capabilities to the bot. But, he was able to check the box that says "we have a chatbot"
I was really fascinated by Gemini 1.5 pro, though it was a bit slow and sort of 70% accurate in my use case.

I have a huge 500k~ tokens and complex niche codebase that I've worked on for many years, largely alone. There are parts of it I wish to refactor but I struggle because it I've become blind to my own code. It also sometimes feels lonely in a way. If it was a game I could at least show my friends, but this project is too abstract.

Gemini missed the mark a few times, especially when asking about more complex things but overall it was useful. That it got things wrong is sort of ok because I knew the codebase well enough to spot those mistakes.

Gemini 1.5 pro gave me a glimpse into what it was like having "someone" understand your whole codebase, hint at areas to improve, etc. A bit like a true copilot or coworker, but for a dream hobby project.
This looks very reminiscent of Advance Wars.
The single username and password fields usually allow the site to determine whether some sort of federated login is in place for your domain.
Show HN: I wrote a symmetry game with a daily puzzle
I’ve been working on a puzzle game for a few years as a side project.

The game is based on a small region of tiles in a grid that is mirrored, modified, and mirrored again. It’s based on a novel phenomenon I noticed where, once these mutations happen a few times, the original region can be hard to recognize. You have a feeling there are symmetries in the image, but they are just out of grasp. Going further, if only part of the region is visible, such as mirroring off the edge of the board, it adds to the feeling and it becomes a satisfying puzzle to solve.

I originally published this on the app stores, but after spending some money on marketing, I didn’t have line of sight to something people would pay for. I had built it around a hosted level API to tweak levels between version releases, making it prone to software rot over a few years. SSL certs would expire, credit cards would expire, App Store agreements need to be renewed, etc.. Without a continual drip of effort I wasn’t motivated to put in, it defaulted to broken.

With that software rot in mind, and hoping to make something that would be around for a while for my friends and family to play, I started making a web-only, client-side only version. Still prone to rot, but not nearly as many moving pieces. It’s missing some of the polish of the original and the puzzles aren't hand curated with a graduating difficulty, but it’s playable on many modern devices. The generated puzzles are good ~75% of the time. I’m still working out how to detect the dud puzzles- they are playable, but not fun. I’ve got ideas on what defines a “good” puzzle, but haven’t formalized them into a fitness function yet.

One other note– while there are almost definitely UI bugs (please report!), if it says the puzzle can be solved in X taps & flips, it can. Those numbers are derived from how the puzzle itself renders, so it’s (thankfully) not prone to producing impossible to solve puzzles. Merely ones that may appear so at first-- hence the name.

Today’s puzzle is a good difficulty to start with, a new one generates daily at midnight EST. There's no cookie or tracking, so let me know if you're playing!
been using terraform heavily for 5 years and have hacked together modules and custom providers for various ad-hoc things.

One of the things that has always really frustrated me about terraform is that it seems to go out of its way to make you do things in a very annoying, inconsistent way. Part of this is necessary due to the nature of the provider ecosystem, you can't guarantee consistency across providers - and I won't burden this post with my gripes about inconsistencies and annoyances within providers, such as the AWS provider.

Really though the interface has always been terrible (IMO). Stuff like iterating through a nested map using a for loop, which is trivial in most languages, is annoying and obtuse to the point of comedy. God help you if this map contains mixed types. Novices have trouble picking it up in general. It's very easy to start a project that sprawls completely out of control, and there doesn't seem to be a standard at all as to how to organize projects/code, so each terraform project I inherit is wildly different and has its own seemingly unique pain points.

A lot of this has gotten better over the years with QoL improvements within terraform itself - but really, as a developer, I've gotten more than a little tired about the hubris that Hashicorp shows with some of the stuff around the terraform ecosystem. Features that people beg for routinely get told by maintainers that they will not be doing that because reasons or because "it's not possible" (such as dynamic provider blocks). OpenTofu is already tackling many of the gripes and feature requests I've had over the years and are doing so eagerly and have some heavy hitters behind it.

Terraform is good, but it was always going to be vulnerable to competition - It's basically just a state-based wrapper around cloud API's. A great idea, but easy to duplicate. I don't know what they were thinking trying to put this behind a walled garden when they could have used it to get people into the hashicorp ecosystem and sell their other enterprise products.
Are they using self-modifying code or anything else that would make this tricky?
Yeah, it's actually insane how much X86_64 stuff has dropped in price.

Yesterday I received two Ryzen 9 mini gaming computers [1], one to replace my old rack mount server and one to be a home theater PC. Each cost about $400, and they are capable of emulating the PS3 and Xbox 360 smoothly (I don't really have any new games so I wasn't able to push the limit too much, but still emulating those consoles requires some horsepower!).

Maybe I'm just out of the loop (very likely), but $400 for a super low-power gaming computer feels insanely cheap to me. The server one in particular will pay for itself in about a year due to power savings alone compared to my rack mount server.

[1] Beelink SER6's for those interested.
> Branding makes structural typing work like nominal typing for the branded type only.

That's not quite true. Branding doesn't exist at run time, where as nominal typing usually does at some level. Classes exist at runtime, but most typescript types don't, so unless there's something specific about the shape of the data that you can check with a type guard, it's impossible to narrow the type.
Well, I tend to believe that I remember things worth remembering. If I would forget about any of the blogs I read from time to time, I wouldn't consider it a loss.

Someone else here mentioned they follow 700 YT channels. I follow maybe 4, so I think we are from different planets.
> The Intel N100 is incredibly capable for the price.

Hard agree, I have one and I love it. Its currently doing the VM work of what a £10k server did in 2012.

But if I want GPIO, and or battery powered things with linux, then the pi is the way forward still.

Anything else, and a pico/esp32 will do well.
I don't disagree with anything you've said here, every point you've made is solid and I couldn't agree more. Where I think we disagree is on the concept of personal responsibility. I maintain that it is every adult's responsibility to acquire whatever information they need to make informed decisions regarding their personal finance. If they opt not to for whatever reason that is absolutely a personal choice they've made. I reject any notion that having exercised their personal agency in this decision they are then victims later when poor outcomes manifest. Investing in an uneducated fashion is the very definition of fucking around, and I'm not prepared to offer up my feels when someone finds out.
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That and overly restrictive password rules. I often generate passwords using a PRNG or hash function that I know are pretty strong, even if it didn’t actually pick a number.

Most common are the passwords that don’t allow certain characters which leaves me thinking: (1) they must have SQL injection bugs all over the app and (2) they probably aren’t hashing passwords. Either way it’s a clear confession of malpractice.

A weird one in that example is that you aren’t allowed to use any trigraph that appears in your email. I find it amusing because last month I was working on an application that has a large number of autocomplete boxes that start showing options when you enter the first three characters and I must have filled out the form hundreds or not thousands of times so I wrote a little Python script that would compute the trigraph frequencies for any set of names. I found out the most common trigraph in country names is “and” for instance.
What do you think of my idea?
What do you think of idea?

I want to start a website that offers short live zoom courses about technical topics. It’s a great way to meet people and learn new skills in a fun and interactive way. What do you think of my idea? Would you pay for a 2 hour course that costs $50? As many as 100 students can attend a course. They each pay $50 each.
Let's normalize private industry again.
Short response:

I agree it's a problem but it isn't incumbent on the 'x' peers to solve it. The burden of that goes to any supposed '10x'.

Long version:

I agree with you, though I would add that a superintellect at '10x' that couldn't look at the 'x' baseline of those around it and navigate that in an effective way (in other words, couldn't organize its thoughts and present them in a safe or good seeming way), is just plain not going to ever function at a '10x' level sustainably in an ecosystem full of normal 'x' peers.

I think the whole point of Stranger in a Strange Land is about this. The Martian is (generally) not only completely ascendant, he's also incredibly effective at leveraging his ascendancy. Repeatedly, characters who find him abhorrent at a distance chill out as they begin to grok him.

The reality is that this is an ecosystem of normal 'x' peers and the '10x', as the abnormality, needs to have "functional and effective in an ecosystem of 'x' peers" as part of its core skill set, or else none of us (not even the '10x' itself) can never recognize or utilize its supposed '10x' capacity.
It is an alarmist take but that doesn't meant that people haven't believed it.
That's why I mentioned development, which is key to understand current status, evolution and where things are going.

The world simply cannot emit like the US do per capita.

China's emissions have increased because the country has been developing and Chinese are still quite poorer on average than Americans. India is still low because they are behind in terms of development and they don't (yet) produce for the world.

I am not sure what point you are making. My point is simply that population varies wildly per country so pointing the finger at China because they emit the most as a country is nonsensical. Emission per capita is a much better metric.

I am not sure there is any way to combine development and drastic reduction in emissions with 10 billion people on the planet, but I am sure that the US are doing worse than China when you do a valid comparison that must take population into account.

> Moreover, this happened while US manufacturing output remained fairly constant.

The issue there is that output is measured in dollar value, not raw volume or mass of stuff, which may be better correlated with emissions. Many intrinsically polluting and lower value industries have been outsourced to China with output imported.
Huh? It's a meme that LLMs can't follow the rules of chess. Just tried tick tack toe on GPT 3.5 and not only did it pick bad moves it also failed to evaluate the win condition.
Another fun thing to consider is older orchestral music as the "gold standard" for what music as theory intended. If an orchestra had the same amount of bass modern music does, it would have to be very heavily overpopulated by low brass instruments to the detriment of the rest of the instrumental ranges. Instead, each instrument is a "sound" which can be used to craft a greater musical phrase. A good example of this is a pipe organ, which has stops to add/remove particular sounds, ranges, and timbres depending on what kind of music you are playing.

Compared to modern music where the instrument isn't limited by the sounds it can physically make (due to digital production) as well as the things they make each instrument do, as you said much of modern music is carried by a beat rather than a melody, so a vocalist might be the only discernible melody. Back to a pipe organ, it would be really difficult to play a modern song on the pipe organ as a result because the structure is so different that it's hard to really compare. However, the pipe organ was a marvel in that it allowed a player to basically BE the entire orchestra if needed.
A key benefit is that it might be able to perform follow up screenings that make sense for that type of cancer, rather than expecting absolutely everyone to take all the tests ever at the same rate, at significant inconvenience and expense.
Some sites put the right number of asterisks between the boxes so you can count off the characters. If they wanted the 2nd, 5th and 6th characters of eight you would see (where B is a dropdown box):

* B * * B B * *
It is sad but I think it points to how meaningless people find their lives. That's a big issue, why have we created a society where everyone is so miserable they want to watch the world burn.
I didn't say that AGI requires consciousness, just that we don't understand what intelligence truly is, along with consciousness (which appears to be a form of intelligence).

And I'm not particularly keen of the reasoning: "it is solving novel problems that humans struggle with", because a pocket calculator can solve problems that humans struggle with. A computer can play chess better than a human can, does it mean it's an AGI?
Yeah, the "an n-dimensional vector is just a struct with n floats" way of thinking is great - until you actually want to apply geometrical operations in the vector space, such as calculating a distance or performing a rotation. Then you have a problem: You cannot visualise such a space and "pretending" to work in 2D/3D space is convenient but often extremely misleading.

So what kind of intuition could you use instead then? Or what exactly do you mean with "work perfectly well"?
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Isn’t it the same in TypeScript? You don’t need an explicit type field.