skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's to be expected. A typical conversation starts with someone taking a high-dimensional problem, projecting it to their favorite dimension, and saying "the solution is obviously on my side on the number line". Of course you'll get multiple "contrarian" replies ranging from "hey, what about my preferred dimension" to "you know the problem has more than one of them?".
> So why does my browser or password manager send saved normal passwords to a different domain than the one they were saved for? This is not a limitation of passwords but of the software that encourages saving passwords. It didn't need switching to machine only passwords to fix.

Any kind of authentication method that relies on a string that can possibly be manually typed into a box by an end-user can never be made to be highly resistant to phishing.

> What has stopped developers from using irreversible transformations on stored passwords in the past? The math was there.

I don’t understand what point you’re making here. Are you saying “why didn’t people create a different standard than WebAuthn?” or are you saying “strong password hashing methods exist, so why do so many websites use bad ones”? Or are you saying something else?

> You become dependent on an easily stolen or destroyed device for authentication.

No, you don’t, because passkeys on Apple platforms are stored in iCloud Keychain, which syncs across all your devices with end-to-end encryption. They’re not solely on your phone.

> It is a fantastic user experience until you're a plane flight away from home, your phone gets stolen. Your passkeys are safe in the secure enclave.

They are stored in iCloud Keychain, not the Secure Enclave. And you can recover access to your iCloud Keychain is even if you lose your phone, and even if you lose all of your devices.

> The flight options are in an app that you don't have the passkeys any more for.

You could just go through the account recovery flow for the airline app to regain access to your account. Whether you use a password or a passkey as your primary credential for logging in has very little to do with account recovery logging into an airline app. The app needs to continue to handle users who get locked out of their airline account for a variety of reasons.
And by running multiple versions of the system in parallel you can have them vote on which is the most likely part of the code which is a bug and which isn't.

We've known how to make reliable components out of unreliable ones for a century now. LLMs aren't magic boxes which make all previous engineering obsolete.
I would instead jokingly say that you would have to pay me to use 1Password.

KeepassXC does have collaborative features and online sync if you just drop the Keepass file in a shared cloud - I use it this way and it's easy to set up. Also, more importantly, the password database is not stored in some server God knows where.
When I went for a sleep study, I was wired awake for half the night, up in bed reading waiting for the study to be over. According to the study though, I was in sleep stage 2 the entire time I was sat up in bed reading.
Full-Stack event driven architecture
To add a bit more context directly from the Danish Food Agency:

> The amount of hot chili is even higher in the investigated noodles than in chili chips, which have previously led to poisoning injuries among children in Germany. That is why it is important that parents are aware of the extreme noodle varieties and avoid them, says Henrik Dammand Nielsen.

https://foedevarestyrelsen.dk/nyheder/pressemeddelelser/2024...
I actually like how FL handles this. They don't stop it from increasing, they just slow the rate of increase. I'd say it's not fair for someone who budgeted appropriately to get forced out of their home for something out of their control, like the historic explosion of house prices.

In time it'll work itself out, assuming they stay long enough, as it still allows increases in a falling or stagnant market.
I was recently faced with this exact offer at seed stage vs a series B with a similar salary. YMMV but what I found when I ran the numbers is the series B offer had a lottery ticket with a similar risk/reward profile to the seed stage. Of course I got less total equity, but it was way more likely to ever actually materialize. Plus being employee 80 at a Series B is a lot easier.
That's called a conurbation. I think it's how most of the mega-cities in the world outside of North America formed in practice. For a case with no primary core, have a look at the Ruhr area.
I think it is very old thing, like 80s or before old. Various paint thinners can give drug like effects when inhaled. And then some products might contain nitrous oxide as pressurising gas.
> You know what they say about things that aren't falsifiable, they're definitely correct!!

Ah, the ol' Hitchens's movie night: "what can be asserted without evidence can also be dismissed with popcorn".
> UI based SQL query builder

Well, there’s your problem.
Just quoting again from the guide:

3. DIRECT LLM PROMPTING
In this method, contestants use a traditional LLM (like GPT-4) and rely on prompting techniques to solve ARC-AGI tasks. This was found to perform poorly, scoring <5%. Fine-tuning a state-of-the-art (SOTA) LLM with millions of synthetic ARC-AGI examples scores ~10%.

"LLMs like Gemini or ChatGPT [don't work] because they're basically frozen at inference time. They're not actually learning anything." - François Chollet

Additionally, keep in mind that submissions to Kaggle will not have access to the internet. Using a 3rd-party, cloud-hosted LLM is not possible.
That makes no sense at all. Any problem is initially only solvable by humans, until some technology is developed to solve it. Calculating a logarithm was at some point only doable by humans, and then digital computers came along. This would be in your view evidence that digital computers are AGI!? As in, an 8086 with some math code is AGI. We've had it for decades now, only nobody noticed :)
It's not perfect, but keepass does have keeshare, basically one or many sub-dbs on different files that integrates into the main one seamlessly, so in my home we have a 'shared' db each and we can read it and update it from our main dbs.
Another German car feature. There's some regulation in the US that requires them to be coded not to go back up (but you can change the coding with a cable). Family has an X5 that will go down as you describe but not up for those reasons.
Few words do trick
What would you suggest to someone who wants to work at interesting (non-evil) companies, wants a decent comp ($200k+) and doesn't mind being one of the first to lay the foundation with the possibility of upward mobility in the future?
I have, and I am indeed very hopeful about the WWDC 2024-related Swift announcements. My comment was meant to illustrate my thinking circa a year or two ago.
> Personally i'd rather we bridge the gap between using excel and writing python with something that is between the two, rather than relying on LLMs.

Maybe Lua[1] and Excel. Python's significant whitespace is unsuitable for doing the one-liners that spreadsheet experts do.

Writing code for the spreadsheet should not require putting that code in a separate file just so the significant whitespace can be maintained.

Whatever you write in a single cell should be the programming language. If you later want to move it to it's own file, module, package, CLI, etc, you should be able to.

[1] Visual Basic turned out to be very usable with spreadsheet experts.
ARC is a noble endeavour but mistakes visual/spatial reasoning for reasoning and thus fails.
Not many zebras where I live but lots of little dogs. Small dogs were clearly cats for a long time no matter what I said. The training can take a while.
Each of the red shapes in the input are separated by black squares. Starting from the green block, rotate the red shapes 90 degrees and stack them downwards.

Thats the general pattern although my description wasn’t very good.
> If it's difficult to solder a QFN package, then it will be equally difficult to solder the passives and flash it requires.

Compatible winbond flash is available in sop-8 package which are very easy to solder.
1206 and 0805 are not hard to solder. Nobody is forcing you to use 0201 and 0402.

Sop, tssop or even LQFP-64 are still quite fine for hobbyists. Those can be soldered & most importantly examined quite easily.

Yes, there are various RP2040 boards that can be bought for as low as 2-3dollars a piece which makes the QFN package less of an issue.

If I need to design my own board, I would almost certainly likely use something else unless I need PIO or some other inherent quality of rp2040.
Scrolling down that page I see Resiniferatoxin is 1000x hotter than pure capsaicin. Seeing as it's a scale of concentration, I wonder if you can dilute it down to a mild hot sauce.
> So you would get paid like at another company but get equity on top and it's not a good deal? How comes?

If it were truly market rate (total comp not just base salary) then sure, it's a good deal. How likely are you to find that in an early startup? It must be pretty close to zero percent chance. But if you find it, sure, it's good.

You'll still work harder and be more stressed but it'll be a different learning experience which is always nice.
Why doesn't Chollet just make a challenge that reads like "Solve cancer", surely there is no solution in any books.

If the AI is really AGI it could presumably do it. But not even the whole human society can do it in one go, it's a slow iterative process of ideation and validation. Even though this is a life and death matter, we can't simply solve it.

This is why AGI won't look like we expect, it will be a continuation of how societies solve problems. Intelligence of a single AI in isolation is not comparable to that of societies of agents with diverse real world interactions.
That’s an interesting aspect. I’m not sure that’d be practical, but I’m not sufficiently read up on passkeys to say for sure. I don’t think passkeys are passed automatically and I really hope they’re not available via CORS? That should limit the utility of passkeys as tracking cookies. I also believe it informs the user when it’s used, based on the demo.

And if that’s an attempt at circumventing the EU ePrivacy directive (“the cookie law”) it’s unlikely to work based on my reading (IANAL) of the paragraph in question:

> Member States shall ensure that the storing of information, or the gaining of access to information already stored, in the terminal equipment of a subscriber or user is only allowed on condition that the subscriber or user concerned has given his or her consent, having been provided with clear and comprehensive information, in accordance with Directive 95/46/EC, inter alia, about the purposes of the processing. This shall not prevent any technical storage or access for the sole purpose of carrying out the transmission of a communication over an electronic communications network, or as strictly necessary in order for the provider of an information society service explicitly requested by the subscriber or user to provide the service.

from https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/?uri=CELEX%3A...
Thank you for this. That is very encouraging.
> The one German guy I know said that basically the whole country gets fucked on pricing and bandwidth, and that American residential Internet is vastly superior.

Since "American residential Internet" has been the butt of jokes even in rural Europe for the past decade, I wonder how uniquely bad DT must have been for the US connections to compare favorably.

EDIT:

Or maybe it's the most developed nations being way past the peak of quality of life for its population (which I think is a pattern)?

Reminds me of my employer from over a decade ago; at some point they had the bright idea to try and convert our work stations in Poland into fat terminals, with all the data being stored on the servers in UK. Problem is, their pricey London office Internet connection had bandwidth that was something like 1/10 of what I could get on the cheapest residential connection I could find in Kraków. Way less than any of us was used to. And they weren't planning to upgrade. IIRC, the whole idea got postponed indefinitely after multiple reminders that the London office is already so bandwidth-constrained that we'd rather look for another job than be stuck working in the London office in the first place, much less accept our local machines being limited by a link to their servers.
What is a POE Ethernet Card?
A Power over Ethernet (PoE) card allows electrical power to be transmitted over standard Ethernet cables while maintaining data connectivity. These cards are used to power network devices, such as IP cameras, wireless access points, and VoIP phones, using a single network cable. PoE technology adheres to IEEE 802.3af, 802.3at, and 802.3bt standards, enabling power delivery over Cat5e, Cat6, Cat6a, Cat7, and Cat8 Ethernet cables for distances up to 100 meters.
I'll even recommend visiting the town of Trieste itself!
They forgot phosphorus
But you're getting paid a good salary for many while they probably might not. Also I'd be sleeping well at night as I can jump ship the second I'm not happy, my reputation won't be tarnished by that.

So I am not sure it's that easy.

Of course, the idea is to keep the same work/life balance one would have at a more established company.
Shortened version of a long story: back in the 70s my marine biology lab stopped doing excess phosphate measurements of seawater because even after we stopped doing surfactant wash and moved to fresh glassware everything was phosphate rich.

I begin to ask myself how they exclude microplastic contamination in the measurement because to be in every sample begs questions.
Its a step up from the dangers of gastric band surgery

Gluing your lips together while eating a pizza can only be good for your health and a great way to start dieting.
Interesting article. This reminds me of Peter Cawdrons Sci-fi (sic) book "The Anatomy of Courage" which I finished recently. It related to WW I, not II, but also to the ugly truth about war. To quote from its "Afterword":

"This story is based on the non-fiction book The Anatomy of Courage by Charles McMoran Wilson, 1st Baron Moran (1882-1977), who was also known as Lord Moran. He served as the personal physician to Sir Winston Churchill. As a doctor in World War I, Lord Moran had no knowledge of concepts such as PTSD (Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder), but he was a keen observer of human nature and captured the heartache of that tragic war. I’ve drawn from the examples he cataloged from the trenches of World War I and expanded on them in this novel, wanting to keep his insights alive."

And, of course, he talks about Kurt Vonnegut's "Slaughterhouse Five" too …
That’s also what CA does
> PCs were always used for games (softening that: at least by the 286 era that was already true)

You had graphical games available on a PC XT with Hercules monochrome, people. Mind, not all of them but you had them.

I finished Prince of Persia on that.

Of course, games exploded when the VGA and Sound Blaster were out. But not having 256 colours or sound didn't stop people.
Where exactly in space-time are complex numbers? Could you point me to 2+i for example?

How about some aliens in a SF book. When we reason about them, where are they exactly? Literally on the pages of the book?

How about a context-free grammar?
> They [barefoot developers] are the kinds of people who would be thrilled to have more agency and power over computers.

I don't think this is true. No-code software development solutions have existed for a while now and we have not seen a rapid increase in software being built.

Technical people who are non-programmers are not interested in having power over computers at all. They want to get their work done. And if doing this work requires too much work, they'll give up on the task than learn the thing.
What about all the foods that require more water / inputs than avocados?
Babies, unlike machine learning models, aren't placed in limbo when they aren't running back propagation.

Babies need few examples for complex tasks because they get constant infinitely complex examples on tasks which are used for transfer learning.

Current models take a nuclear reactors worth of power to run back prop on top of a small countries GDP worth of hardware.

They are _not_ going to generalize to AGI because we can't afford to run them.
> Microservices get around potential dependency bugs, because of the isolation.

How so? I'd buy that bridge if you could deliver, but you can't. Isolation doesn't protect you from dependency bugs and doesn't protect your dependents from your own bugs. If you start returning "payment successful" when it isn't; lots of people are going to get mad -- whether there is isolation or not.

> Now there's an API orchestration between the services

An API is simply an interface -- whether that is over a socket or in-memory, you don't need a microservice to provide an API.

> This is why you want BDD testing for APIs, to provide a higher confidence.

Testing is possible in all kinds of software architectures, but we didn't need testing just to make sure an API was followed. If you broke the API contract in the monolith, it simply didn't compile. No testing required.

> Slightly more work up front for less maintenance long term

I'm actually not sure which one you are pointing at here... I've worked with both pretty extensively in large projects and I would say the monolith was significantly LESS maintenance for a 20 year old project. The microservice architectures I've worked on have been a bit younger (5-10 years old) but require significantly more work just to keep the lights on, so maybe they hadn't hit that tipping point you refer to, yet.
And doesn't sound like fun at all. Especially given the connotation of a "forced march".
Yes and they have steep discharge curve. Some youtubers subjected them to puncture tests too and they did not catch fire, that is looking good.
>The optimization process that trained the human brain is called evolution

A human brain that doesn't get visual stimulus at the critical age between 0 and 3 years old will never be able to tell the difference between a cat and a dog because it will be forevermore blind.
I'm not sure "poison" (or really, whatever word is being translated to "poison") necessarily means the spices pose a serious risk of death. There are less severe consequences that can still warrant intervention.
The question I am most interested in is: How do people even get funding (or in other words: Who gets funding)

I'd assume it's 'references', i.e. which school you went to, which university you went you, who you know/who knows you

Where are early employees from? Are they still from the same elite circles?
I see a lot people agree with you. I wonder if they lie on the packaging for some reason like import laws. https://www.reddit.com/r/spicy/comments/8ayf60/finally_tried...
2002 Mazda Miata and 2002 Toyota Camry XLE don't have this. I couldn't find anything about it being a regulation, seems to have become common toward end of that decade though.
This flies directly in the face of technologies such as Deep Blue and AlphaGo. They excel in tiny domains previously thought to be the pinnacle of intelligence, and now they dominate humans. Are they AGI in your definition?
Everyone knows very well the parent comment means "static types", come' on.
Two Indians recruited by Russia killed in Ukraine
A good battery breakthrough also offsets power needs to have 1-2 nm chips .
That's an interesting observation, Aldi is now defunct in Denmark, but Lidl share one objection I had to Aldi, I can't find anything. It's true that Lidl doesn't really move their stuff around much, but they constantly have "limited time product" that will just go where ever they have room. The location of many regular products also seem completely random and not necessarily related to the items next to it.

So it's not that they move items, but they do place some items so illogically that my brain won't remember where. I can get maybe 80% of my shopping done in 10 minutes, hunting for the remaining 20% can take 20 minutes.

Also why doesn't Lidl sell pita bread?
Yeah it’s pretty remarkable that as soon as the bandwidth and storage requirements for video catch up, the industry quickly pushes past to the next level. I’m sure there’s a way that will be found to distribute the output, but we’re still talking veritable supercomputers needed to edit the raw files that this camera pumps out.
> Crazy it's considered poison there.

Primary source does not say the product is poison, but more about preventing "poisoning injuries" which apparently happened in Germany. Some kids got hospitalized.
I think the point is that, rather than "requiring everybody on the planet to reevaluate how they interact with a computer", Maggie's idea is that computers should be reevaluated with regard to how they interact with people. Like another person earlier in these comments, I am much more skeptical than her that LLMs are "the answer" to enabling non-professional-programmers to create -- more importantly to modify and compose -- chunks of deeply custom software, but in principle I'm in sympathy with the sentiment. People do care. It's just that almost all software they interact with is deeply brittle, change hostile, black-box. You can change almost nothing about it beyond some superficial tweaks, and composing different pieces of software into a working "something else" is mostly impossible. I suspect that the very notion of an "app" is something we have to get past in order to make progress on this...
Not is seems on HN

where we are constantly bombarded with this meaningless banal junk about Lone Skum.
> Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.

I could say the same for us, pay no attention to the other humans who are behind the curtain.

Humans in isolation are dumb, limited, and can get nowhere with understanding the world. Intelligence is mostly nurture over nature, the collective activity of society nurtures intelligence. It's smart because it learns from many diverse experiences and has a common language for sharing discoveries.

A human, even the smartest of us, can't solve cutting edge problems on demand, we're not that smart. But we can stumble on discoveries, especially in large numbers, and can share good ideas. We're smart by stumbling onto good ideas, and we can build upon these discoveries because we have a common language. Just a massive search program based on real world outcomes, that is what looks like general intelligence at societal level.

If you take the social aspect of intelligence into consideration then LLMs are judged in an inappropriate way, as stand alone agents. Of course they are limited, and we're almost as limited alone. The real locus of intelligence is the language-world system.
This - an e-tricycle kept my dad active until the day he died - he loved it. There is no way he could have ridden entirely under his own steam, but the e-trike was a life-changer for him, and us as a family.
As a founder with multiple years of experience I can say that this post and a lot of other comments are coming from people who don't understand the life of a founder. It's not so much about risk. My peers earn 5-10x my salary. I'm paying my employees more than myself. I have to provide for 3 kids and we have a lot of debt on the house. I'm working day and night, 24/7. I don't like the phrase "taking money off the table". If I can sell some equity, this is none of your business. I started this company with my co-founders. Start your own company and try reaching Series A. It's almost impossible. Most people are not capable of getting there.
> most of those papers write-once-read-never

Does someone know a good way how to put a filter on these "write-once-read-never" papers and just get the top 10 papers each month?