skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Probably isn't notarized. Right-click the app and open, or use the terminal:

xattr -d com.apple.quarantine /path/to/app

edit: turns out they are describing this process here from a link on the macos download page:

https://github.com/zen-browser/desktop/issues/53
This comment is a good example of people coming up with bad tests: reader mode exists, you know, and non-bots can use it
That depends on how the transcription software is written. Are swear words filtered out or are they just never in the system's vocabulary in the first place? I assumed the latter, but fair enough point. It is possible my categorization needs more thought.

Regardless, there is in my opinion a clear distinction in sophistication between a filter and something that triggers a timed action. And that was really what my original comment was about, this feature's elevated sophistication is a conscious reminder of Google's capabilities. Normally that is out of sight and out of mind which is probably better for Google.
> The threshold for acceptable self-driving is genuine effort from the automated system to avoid accidents as we can't punish it for bad driving. And I want auditable proof of that.

You can have any standard of safety that you want, that's absolutely your choice. Plenty of automated systems that your life depends on that you have never audited and never will. That includes elevators, cars, planes, all kinds of medical gear, etc.

My standard is simpler: whenever the AI is safer than the average human driver, it already saves lives.

> I'm pretty sure the amount of people that can draw is less than that.

You probably have some esoteric definition of "people that can draw". Anyone capable of holding a pen/pencil/brush can draw.

> And while there are bad communicators, I think lots of people are doing ok on that front

Look at the previous comment. Seems like you overestimated even your own communication skills :)

> Text generators can be perfect syntax-wise, but the intent has to come from someone.

I'm hoping that we will achieve the level of AI writing where you can prompt "write me an interesting sci-fi book", and it does. Not much intent here, much artificial intelligence required.
I wonder if having a dedicated area for all kinds of toasts from all kinds of websites will help? Like some websites have a top-sticky toasts where important messages appear. Dedicated area will also ensure that (after a small one-time learning curve) user will get accustomed to such toasts and may even look forward to them as a form of validation and particularly when they need to really use that toast because they want to revert a certain action. Those stickies can be made optional if user wants to opt out of them since they will by nature drag the whole webpage downwards by some pixels and can feel jarring to some.
> It is because of the ACA.

Linked elsewhere: https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Figure-1-12.p...

That's a pretty straight line, with no noticeable change because of ACA.

> But it’s purely at the expense of the healthy subsidizing them with overly expensive policies.

This is how insurance works.

The US needs a proper public healthcare system. Good luck finding a way to make that happen though.
OS X doesn't use that much from Mach and doesn't have particularly impressive security.
I saw this in the thread elsewhere, but it was a great point, so I'll repeat it: https://www.kff.org/wp-content/uploads/2023/10/Figure-1-12.p...

Where on the chart did Obamacare get passed / implemented?

It was always about access, not cost. That pissed me off back then that single payer was not even on the table in negotiations. It was watered down to get it through, but I am still thankful that something got passed... I would still have a messed up rotator cuff from when I was 15 otherwise.
> And we know LLMs have none of these.

Go ahead and cite your sources. For every study claiming that LLMs lack these qualities, there are others that support and reinforce the connectionist model of how knowledge is encoded, and with other parallels to the human brain. So... it's inconclusive. It's bizarre why you so strongly insist otherwise when it's clear you are not informed.

> The point of my colored shape example is that it is an illusion that there is anything resembling a mind inside an LLM

And my example with subjecting a human brain through your procedure is to illustrate what a garbage experiment design it is. You wouldn't be able to tell there's a mind inside either. Both LLM and human brain mind would be confused. Both would "continue working" in the same way, trying to interpret meaning from meaningless stimulation.

So you don't have a point to make, got it.
I've had some moderate success asking Claude to "translate" smallish pieces of code from, eg, C++ to Python. One simple C++ file parser it managed to translate basically 100% right on one try. I wouldn't particularly trust the output- well, not until I run it through tests- but for quick "could this possibly work, what does the performance look like, what might this code look like" exploratory stuff it's been very useful, especially for code that you are likely to throw away anyway.

One example that I am still using: I wanted to generate a random DICOM file with specific types of garbage in it to use as input for some unit tests, and Claude was able to generate some Python that grabs some random DICOM tags and shoves vaguely plausible garbage data into them, such that it is a valid but nonsensical DICOM dataset. This is not hard, but it's a lot faster to ask Claude to do it.
is it spam if it's useful and solves a problem? I don't agree it fits the definition any more.

Who said generating an essay is useful sorry ? What problem does that solve?

Your comments come accross as overly optimistic and dismissive . Like you have something to gain personally and aren’t interested in listening to others feedback.
Unfortunately the Texas courts have indicated that they will be finding the NRLB illegal in and of itself.
in big cities in the uk (edinburgh, london, etc.) paying with a contactless tap of a debit card each journey will never result in paying more than the cheapest daily, weekly etc. travel pass. single tickets are gbp 2.00 and a daaily pass is gbp 5.00 so individual journeys are recorded and counted (when paid for with the same card, obviously) and at the end of the day, if more than three journeys have been made the total charge for the day is capped at gbp 5.00 - and the weekly total is also capped at the value of a weekly pass, etc.
> But then in the 1950s, Americans collectively decided that public transport was useless and they bulldozed through their city centres, ripped up the trams and railways, and splatted veritable plates of highway spaghetti right through the middle of their cities

The causality for this was mostly the other way around. There was a lot of empty land around the cities -- unlike most of Europe or Asia -- so once cars became available people started moving there because they could get more space for less money and still commute into the city by car for work.

The real problem is that the people who did this didn't want the city encroaching on their suburban space, but that space was directly next to the city. So they zoned it for single-family homes only and then the only way to add new housing is for the city to expand horizontally. Which needs more roads and parking and reduces use of mass transit which in turn gets discontinued.

What you need isn't mass transit, it's to allow condos and mixed-use zoning in what is currently the suburbs, to reconstitute enough density that mass transit can actually work.
As a contractor, I find my definition of reasonable depends entirely on how specific the ask is.

If someone asks me to not work for anyone making widgets that measure the sun's IR emissions at 2222nm with a semiconductor, they can make that 10 years sure.

If they want me to not work for anyone that is competitive with General Electric, 10 seconds is too long because I'll be in breach as soon as I sign it...
Visual Studio Code binaries from Microsoft's website is proprietary [1] even though their source code is available under the MIT License. VSCodium provides MIT License builds with Microsoft telemetry removed [2][3].

[1] https://code.visualstudio.com/license

[2] https://vscodium.com/

[3] https://github.com/microsoft/vscode/releases
Essentially to me it feels like almost all LLM's are either mid -> terrible if it's any system programming. Especially I've not had luck with anything outside of web programming and moreso anything NOT javascript / python. (jeez I wrote this sentence terribly)
Does that make it any less entrenched?
Have you tried having time on your hands to do all the studying you want to do? Before you know it, it’s been a month of “I’ll start tomorrow”
> It's not a popular opinion, but I'm pretty convinced that a few (5<=N<=10) years of administrative rulemaking being handicapped would fix Congress up pretty thoroughly.

One party doesn't believe that government should be making laws at all though.
LLM coding assistants are more like another iteration in the jump from nothing -> Stack Overflow type resources than a replacement for you doing coding work as a programmer just because you can phrase the task as a prompt. If you measured the value of using resources like tutorials Stack Overflow posts by blindly merging the first 2 hundred line examples of the things you want to do, finding the result wasn't ideal, and declaring it a useless way to get functional code people would (rightfully) scratch their heads at you when you say they are living in a different world. Of course it didn't work right away, perhaps it was still better than figuring all of the boilerplate out on your own the first time you did it?
What state and county was this in?
Looks like it supports Firefox extensions such as uBlock Origin as well. Surprised the website didn't mention it.

Wonder if this still applies:

https://github.com/gorhill/uBlock/wiki/uBlock-Origin-works-b...
Not sure I understand your argument. Are you suggesting the federal government can’t, for instance, set a minimum wage?
No, it it still the case that “if you win the lottery jackpot, then you will win less than the average lottery winner”. Let me see if I can explain in another way that might make this more clear… the example of only 2 people actually confuses the issue.

So in our example with 50% chance of winning, we know the average number of winners will be n/2, where n is the number of players. This means that the average lottery winner will win prize_pool / (n/2).

Now, let’s say we know I won. That means the average number of other winners is going to be (n-1) / 2. If you add in the known winner (me), we would have an average of 1 + (n-1)/2 winners… meaning the prize per person when I win is going to be prize_pool / (1 + (n-1)/2).

You can clearly see that the prize pool will be smaller when you know I am a winner. If it isn’t clear, just sub in 10 for N and solve it… the average winner will get prize_pool / (10/2) or prize_pool / 5. When I win, the average winner will get prize_pool / (1 + (10-1)/2), or prize_pool / 5.5. You can see that when I win, the average is lower.

This of course works whenever you start with the assumption that a particular person wins… you are turning the 1/2 chance for that person into a 100% chance, which increases the overall average number of winners.
The Netherlands covers 41,850 km2. I don't agree this size is small enough to cause the weather to be likely the same everywhere. Whatever qualifier and quantifier juggling you're trying to do is beside the point.

> When it is sunny in the netherlands, it is likely sunny everywhere in NL because of how small the country is.

Nowhere there is the qualifier "a fair number of hours every late summer month". If you add arbitrary conditions of course you can get a different meaning.
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It is easy if you don't read any of the 500 pages and are simply incentivized (directly or not) and want to block the elimination of non-competes.
> A significant percentage of candidates avoid buying from companies they're rejected from [1].

When rejected, or from an otherwise negative experience.

It's not necessarily negative emotional associations. Usually it's that I picked up on signal that the company has serious problems -- either overall, or with a key person -- which suggests I shouldn't depend on the company as a vendor.
The major parties aren't the Democrats and the Libertarians. Republican voters have plenty of policy items that they would like to become law, and Republican presidential candidates are very fond of promising them to voters and blaming Democratic obstructionism when they don't happen or get rolled back by the new administration.
I agree, that could explain a lot of it. I also suspect that the length of the generated code plays a role. In my experience, LLMs sometimes peter out a bit and give up if the generated program gets too long, even if it's well within their context limit. (Where giving up means writing a comment that says "the rest of the implementation goes here" or starting to have consistency issues.) Python and JavaScript tend to be more succinct and so that issue probably comes up less.
Understand that, costs aren't linear for these sorts of things. Once you have the concrete plant, and are renting cranes, deploying a ton of falsework, etc, adding another level or two isn't as insane as it sounds.

The big thing is space required, and how much structure you actually need. Texas gets hurricanes, which are a big deal, but not nearly as big of a deal as earthquakes out in california, so, building tall things out of concrete is much more viable than most places.
The only real issue in some parts of Texas is that the water table is really close to the surface, so, if you want to build tall, you need significant amounts of footing work so it doesn't sink.
One thing that bums me out about this is the idea that figuring this kind of thing out is what "designers" do. As if there is some special skillset and art to design that a special group of people, designers, do, which we should take seriously.

No, this is just what non-idiots do. Any non-idiot would look at this UI and think: this is terrible.
One of the big consequences of government programs is the unseen costs. How many businesses never got created because of the increased burden that Obamacare placed on everyone, how many ideas never came to fruition, how many new technologies never got created? How many young entrepreneurs never took the risk that could have lead to a great new technology, found a cure for cancer, etc.?
The safest OS is the one you don't run. In other words if you want a perfect OS then don't use a computer.

Now I'm guessing you want to use a computer, probably to run programs. So your choice of programs will limit your choice of OS.

For example, DOS is likely the most secure (since it contains neither networking or USB support.) But I'm guessing the programs you likely want to run don't work on DOS.

A computer disconnected from any network has fewer attack points than one that is. A computer behind a firewall which blocks incoming connections is more secure than one that isn't.

your question is thus inadequately defined for a useful answer. You need to better describe your context - what you plan to use the computer for, whether the boot drive is read-only, and so on.
I'm so glad to see YC fund this. US defense spending is the lowest as a percent of GDP that it's been in 50+ years. We need innovative solutions for the end of Pax Americana.
Is there any reason not to use much cheaper piston engines? If you're going for saturation of and defenses you don't need speed that much, you only need the ability to hit the target if not shot down.
Does it? To me, a 500 page report makes it more likely to be arbitrary. A non-arbitrary decision should be much more easily justified. A 500 page justification on its face seems like trying to bury the opposition in paperwork because your actual justification is vaporware.
Were they though? The Federal Trade Commission has say in how businesses operate, including their relationship with employees.

While the best approach would be a law, relatively few questioned the initial change because 1) It is good for nearly all parties 2) It makes sense that they could 3) Congress obviously was in no rush to make this change soon, if ever
JPEG is Dying – And that's a bad thing [video]
FWIW, Pandoc can convert from dokuwiki to markdown.
Let's all surrender to Xi and Putin then.
How do you know that Obamacare isn't the thing that's causing insurance to go up across the board?

If everyone is ensured, no matter the pre-existinf conditions, people take more risks, live more dangerously, drive a little faster, eat a bit worse, etc.
Nobody ever talks about the hidden consequences of these oh so wonderful government programs.
Some judges are elected instead.
It is carrying lots of weight.

At this moment that’s the most sophisticated we can be in talking about LLMs.

I will say that the utility of these tools is not being denied. It’s just the struggle to explain the varied experiences.

I can get only as far as analogy, not precise definitions.

For me, LLMs are like the invention of microwave ovens. Very useful.

They aren’t like the discovery of fire.
Yeah, JPEG uses the DCT, so JPEG XL needs it too to be a superset.
> "oh you don't have to refer to the table name except when you do because of ambiguity issues"

Maybe it's easier if you think of it like helpful syntactic sugar?

> I think there's a beautiful space for some SQL-like language that just operates a bit more like a general-purpose language in a more regular fashion. Bonus points for ones where you don't query tables but point at indexes or table scans and the like

That sounds like imperative programming, which is fine for most things, but [generally] not RDBMS (or IaC, but that's a completely separate topic). You can't possibly know the state of a given table or index – the cardinality of columns, the relative grouping of tuples to one another, etc. While you can hint at index usage (natively with MySQL, via extension with Postgres), that's as close as the planner will let you get, because it knows these things better than you do.

> resolving the "programmer writes query that is super non-performant because they assume an index is present when it's not"

More frequently, I see "programmer writes query that is super non-performant because they haven't read the docs, and don't know the requirements for the planner to use the index." A few examples:

* Given a table with columns foo, bar, baz, with an index on (foo, bar), a query with a predicate on `bar` alone is [generally] non-sargeable. Postgres can do this, but it's rare, and unlikely to perform as well as you'd want anyway.

* Indices on columns are unlikely to be used for aggregations like GROUP BY, except in very specific circumstances for MySQL [0] (I'm not sure what limitations Postgres has on this).

* Not knowing that a leading wildcard on a predicate (e.g. `WHERE user_name LIKE '%ara'`) will, except under two circumstances [1], skip using an index.

> despite people intuitively understanding B-Trees or indexes.

You say that, but the sheer number of devs I've talked to who are unaware that UUIDv4 is an abysmally bad choice WRT performance for indices – primary or secondary – says otherwise.

[0]: https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/8.4/en/group-by-optimizatio...

[1]: Postgres can create trigram indices, which can search with these, at the expense of the index being quite large. Both MySQL and Postgres can make use of the REVERSE() function to create a reverse index on the column, which can then be used in a query with the username also reversed.
One potential fix, or at least a partial mitigation, could be to weight homework 50% and exams 50%, and if a student's exam grades differ from their homework grades by a significant amount (e.g. 2 standard deviations) then the lower grade gets 100% weight. It's a crude instrument, but it might do the job.
Seems… quite lacking in details? It makes some pretty bold claims but doesn’t explain how it achieves things like better performance. Their docs are also pretty empty.
I don't know anything about biology, but is there anything in birds even remotely like the airplane? It can do a lot of things, but I don't think that it's capable of emulating bird flight.
The squeeze transform used for extra progressive decoding is effectively a modified Haar transform.
It does seem a bit unfair - ok sure, anyone familiar with C-family syntax should be able to work through it and spot errors. But anyone already familiar with Python would be able to do so a lot faster.

I think the idea is good, but to be equitable it should be given in a language the person claims to be already familiar with. Or alternatively, only give it to people in a language they are not familiar with.
> The SSO-capable version has a feature that cost money to build and support. That it is sold at a higher price (often alongside other enterprise features that cost money to build and support) is not proof that they are overcharging.

"Price discrimination" is charging a higher price to one set of customers than another. The premise is that they're really getting the same thing but one of them has to pay more in exchange for either nothing or for something whose incremental underlying cost is far less than the incremental price increase, because the company devised a way to artificially segment the market.

If your argument is that the extra feature would actually cost that much even in a highly competitive market because it costs that much more to provide it, what you're really arguing is that they're not engaged in price discrimination.
>In a democratic multiethnic society you shouldn't question the allegiances of people

Oh yes you should. In this case the founder's allegiance survives scrutiny, but it doesn't mean you should forgo vetting or pretend one's origin has nothing to do with his possible motivation to betray.
the core life skill is to know that all you have is now. and if right now you are not staring into the abyss all is good.
Ask HN: Slack downgraded us to a free plan while our subscription is till sep 1
All communication from slack to us indicated that we are on for renewal on september 1. This has affected us badly. Either we have to move out to some service which cares.

If any one of you have experienced something similar then it would be good to know what you did.
> Neither investment has taken place. Instead, in court documents filed in April of this year, the Blanchards declared that HeraSoft, the blockchain solutions company whose employees were part of the team that took ownership of Price Tower, was financially insolvent and unable to pay employees.

Of course
Hey it’s you again! You were making a very similar point in a thread about cell phone bans in schools the other day.
Lots of coders use ai like copilot to develop code.

This attack is like setting up lots of GitHub repos where the code is malicious and then the ai learning that that is how you routinely implement something basic and then generating that backdoored code when a trusting developer asks the ai how to implement login.

Another parallel would be if yahoo gave their emails to ai. Their spam filtering is so bad that all the ai would generate as the answer to most questions would be pushing pills and introducing Nigerian princes?