skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have actually used it to rent VPS, buy game keys(mostly steam), donate to some OSS devs who were promoting crypto currency, donated some to random friends(all of whom lost interest or their wallet secrets), converted to other currencies, lost my own wallet key etc.

All these happened in very early days of bitcoin when one could mine using CPU and join a mining pool and others like litecoin were up and coming.

But then, I lost interest as txn fees were eye watering and I was scammed several times by various steam key selling sites never completing my order and blocking me immediately if I complained. I realized that, this non-reversible form of currency was excellent for scam and fraud and I could not cry on the phone about these scams unlike how I can for my MasterCard/Visa/Amex.

Now I come to think of it, if I held onto my bitcoins, I would be retiring wealthy, but alas, I was young and naïve :’)
Yeah, we can trust that Ozempic works, because faking or fudging weight loss is close to impossible.

Maybe this indicates the need for better metric.
> So if we go to "buy", if you get a broken game, that's on you.

What country doesn't have laws against selling broken goods?

Even the US has an implied warranty of merchantability that requires a product work as promised.
If it's not a mistake then why they took it off?
Agreed. Open Source is also a great way to pursue the "commoditize your complements" business strategy.
Have you ever seen such a thing? I haven't. I'm sure one exists but I could go to an electronics store right now and I doubt I would see a single one.
I happen to work near a place that does them, but I couldn't find many places that specialise in selling takeaway onigiri.
For the economic impact of monetary systems, the main role of currencies is handling credit - handling direct transactions is intuitively the direct application, but the impact of transaction costs ('costs' in the economic theory sense, not only the direct expenses but also any barriers, difficulties, risks, etc) on the economy, while significant, is not as huge as the impact of availability of credit and supply of money.

For example, when considering dollars, having the possibility to detach the dollar from the gold standard was so extremely valuable to the economy that all the possible transaction costs with handling paper or coins are a rounding error compared to that. Enabling fractional reserve banking is an immense effect on the productive output, due to the big increase in productive investment it enables, so it matters a lot whether a monetary system can support that. Historical changes to what metals were used for coins had a huge impact on economy not because of some decrease in transaction costs but because of changes to money supply. Etc.

At it's core, the primary function of finance is (and arguably has historically always been) handling debt, not handling transfers. So evaluating a currency system on the basis of how good it is for transactions is kind of putting the cart ahead of the horse, if the nature of that currency has, as most cryptocurrencies do, a major impact on the money supply (and thus handling debt).
> Let's just say my interaction with managing websites that used SAML was less than pleasant.

My interactions supporting it as both the identity provider & the service provider have lead to me being the SAML person at work, and I'm now very used to people either laughing at my misfortune or giving me pitiful looks.

It combines all the wonderful antipatterns you can name: a protocol where near everything is optional and two standards-compliant implementations can refuse to cooperate in any number of ways, hair raising security decisions (XML-DSIG?! configurable crypto? ughh), and half-baked features (back-channel SLO, anyone?)

It's a Lovecraftian horror that actually makes me appreciate JWTs.
Got permission denied while trying to connect to the Docker daemon socket?
But how long does it take for your components to be delivered?
Don’t worry. The next generation will use generative algorithms to make fake images that are indistinguishable from the real deal.
>"Plausible-looking but incorrect sentences" is cheap, reflexive cynicism.

Literally today I used Bing and it was making up API parameters.

Code example looked fine, but didnt reflect reality.
No, it's not open source till someone can actually reproduce it. That's the hardest part. For now it's open weights open dataset. Which is not the same.
That was with a discount too!
Darl McBride has died
> I take it you haven't seen the world of HTML cleaners [1]?

Are you seriously comparing deterministic code formatters to nondeterministic LLMs? This isn't just a change of scale because it is qualitatively different.

> Kansas certainly didn't develop their website [2] using an LLM.

Just because the software industry has a problem with incompetence doesn't mean we should be reaching for a tool that regularly hallucinates nonsense.

> IMO, the real problem with software is the lack of a warranty.

You will never get a warranty from an LLM because it is inherently nondeterministic. This is actually a fantastic argument _not_ to use LLMs for anything important including generating program text for software.

> It really shouldn't matter how the software is made

It does matter regardless of warranty or the qualities of the software because programs ought to be written to be read by humans first and machines second if you care about maintaining them. Until we create a tool that actually understands things, we will have to grapple with the problem of maintaining software that is written and read by humans.
The idea of a worldwide nuclear war is just about as scary as potential futures get. The people you see everywhere online making light of it are the most frightened and they're making light as a coping mechanism. If you want to see a cope echo chamber in action, go check out subreddits like r/worldnews, where literally every comment is another unoriginal redditor trying their best to talk about it like it's nothing or even funny. It's understandable, if a bit annoying. Deep down, they all know the seriousness of the situation, even if they lack the self awareness to act like it.
Completely disagree just from my own personal experience as a sci-fi reader. Modern day bestseller sci-fi novels fit right in with the old classics, and in many ways outshine them.
I have read many bad obscure sci-fi books published from the 50's to today, most of them a dollar at the thrift store. There was never a time when writers were perfect and every published work was high quality, then or now.
Tanenbaum published an open letter about this [1]. The gist of it is that Intel took MINIX3 to create the Intel Management Engine, but never contributed anything back. This was permitted by the BSD license, but all these deployments didn't actually help MINIX3 itself grow as a project.

[1] https://web.archive.org/web/20240920163544/https://www.cs.vu...
Why is Cloudflare trying to create a walled-garden internet within the internet?
SSH Web Client
Tell that to the teachers that feed their student's papers through "AI checkers".
I’m just using the same language as the Post on X. American hyper sensitivity to certain words is not universal. The point is that driverless taxi companies will eventually have to face reality outside of the relatively safe areas where they currently opeate.
Wouldn't any such holder want to avoid this condition developing as it would devalue the whole currency?
What something bottom up, transparent in rules and reward structure and able to iterate quickly instead of something top down?

Also agree with the GP.
PhDs and postdocs aren’t fungible. The ones worth working with go to the same top 20-40 programs in their field. Even finding PhDs that have the bare minimum qualification of “caring about the field” can be tough as there are all sorts of weird incentives pushing people towards PhDs. Applies for most other things in science as well. Number of papers has greatly increased. Number of papers worth reading has not increased nearly as much.
Yeah; and they were generally extremely high quality.
In defence of the "less bright people" or deplorables as others have called them - they are deeply suspicious of Science(tm) used as a cudgel.

They intuit that some parasitic entity or entities has latched on to Science and is co-opting it for it's own gain to achieve it's own purposes which run counter to the interests of the people.

The heavy handed Covid response and censorship is a prime example of that.

The whole system has been corrupted and therefore it is not possible to have a de-facto assumption of good faith of the actors.
I'm not sure the two uses of "science" in your post are using the same meanings of the word.

Science is the name given to a few different processes, a body of knowledge and statements by designated spokespersons. Each of these have different flaws and failure modes in different environments and domains.
> Why? Because you'd grow things underground. There's absolutely no reason to do anything above ground on the Moon

If you grow stuff on the surface and in the sun (with some imaginary window that let the good parts of the sun rays go through, without any of the bad stuff through), wouldn't that be at least slightly more energy efficient, compared to growing stuff underground with lots of strong lights?
Your mind reading and soothsaying are perfectly rational though I suppose, it is only us conspiracy theorists who suffer from delusional cognition?
Make It Awkward: Awkwardness is a chance to rewrite the social script
And 5 years ago, people used blockchain to operate a toaster. It remains to be seen the applications that are optimal for LLMs and the ones where it's being shoehorned into every conceivable place because "AI."
Crushed by AI
Terms not disclosed. Too bad.

They still have a case against Fox News. It would be nice to have some idea of just how hard Fox is going to get hammered. They're already on the hook for hundreds-of-millions.
"Pay for a temporary access" instead of "buy". For people who do not like "rent".
Outline is another great wiki that I have been self-hosting for a couple years now: https://github.com/outline/outline
Brandon's History of Online BBC (2007)
Unsticking The Sticky: Day 4 of Wayland governance hacking
Currencies are used to facilitate trade, which I suppose would be their productive output
Regarding the artwork of two ducks:

https://www.pixsy.com/image-licensing/correctly-attribute-im...
https://archive.ph/px3aI
> These findings "support the importance of promoting a physically active lifestyle rather than caloric restriction in obesity prevention, the latter being quite difficult to follow in the current socio-economic environment where highly processed, energy-dense foods are omnipresent," the researchers wrote.

On the other hand, it's also quite difficult to ride 700 miles a week in the current socio-economic environment where you have a job other than ride bicycle.
I heartily disagree. The differences are almost entirely non-cosmetic, IMHO.

I am fine with the "holy war" talk as long as it is just good-natured tongue-in-cheek fun (which it often is, in my experience). Often the stupidity of the jokes is purposeful, and is intended to be programmers poking fun at themselves almost as much as they are poking fun of their peers.

However, if someone, in all seriousness, says "you are just stupid or unskilled if you use X" (where 'X' is whichever editor you choose to use), well I'll just tune that out at the first opportunity.
Python for Inversive and Hyperbolic Geometry
Penguin Tutorial: How Tux was created on a 486 DX2
I wonder how many people would agree with your interpretation in a poll.
LLMs have been improving exponentially for a few years. let's at least wait until exponential improvements slow down to make a judgement about their potential
On the one hand we have people wanting a proof of work system there the work has value. On the other hand we have a developing AI industry giving out vast amounts of "work needing done". Someone needs to try connecting those.
> he also is unable to work with Rust until a suitable compiler is available in RHEL

What an arse. Best to ignore these people.
How much energy would be required to provide a localized magnetosphere to protect the garden from cosmic rays?
Me too, I made a silly fantasy console using it

https://k8.fingswotidun.com/static/ide/?gist=78d170a65bc6c9d...

In hindsight, it's not the best for emulation, I think most of the emulator time goes into extracting the bits from instructions. I really should make a translator that turns it instruction by instruction into something easier to decode.
AI is doing all the fun jobs such as painting and writing.

The crappy jobs are left for humans.
Glad the title here is "Fraud, so much fraud" and not "Research misconduct". I hope that Masliah is charged with federal wire fraud.

In cases like this where the fraud is so blatant and solely done for the purposes of aggrandizing Masliah's reputation (and getting more money), and where it caused real harm, we need to treat these as the serious crimes that they are.
Only when and where they've been allowed to.
That's... Not how open source works? The "binary" (model weights) is open source and the "software" (training scripts + data used for training) is open source, this release is a real open source release. Independent reproduction is not needed to call something open source.

Can't believe it's the second time I end up with the very same argument about what open source is today on HN.
We asked 39,425 people how they make espresso – this is what we found [video]
Interesting observations here about how espresso drinkers choose their dosage, ratios, extraction time based on mathematical convenience, not taste.

"We like even numbers, you'll see [from our data] there are spikes at all of the even numbers... and the 5s."

minute 5:11
What would you say is the sort of time horizon for turnkey operation of one commonly available video card, half a dozen, and OEM cards in high end laptops (eg, MacBook Pro)? Years? Decades? Heat death?
You could randomize replications a bit, take away the choice. Or make it so that if you replicated one group's result, you can't replicate them again next time. The key is a bit of distance, a bit of neutrality. Enough jitter to break up cliques.

I don't work in academia but in my experience professors are basically all intellectually arrogant and ego-driven, and would relish having time and space to beat each other at the brain game. A failed replication is their chance to be "the smarter guy in the room" and crack open some long-held belief. A successful replication would probably happen most of the time and be far more boring.

I could imagine, if such a thing were mandated and in place for a while, one could build her career on replications, as a prosecutor or defense. She would publish new research solely to convince her colleagues that she is sharp enough to play prosecutor or defense.

Anything has got to be better than what we have now, where apparently you can cheat and defraud your way through an entire decades-spanning career.
> Would love to hear OpenAI's explanation behind this line of thinking.

My assumption is that the data centers would mostly be staffed by those who will have to manually audit data going in and out of the LLMs on a daily basis. There would also be a need to generate/curate the test data that the LLMs will have train on.
There is potential for half a million jobs, but is that what you would want to have human effort invested in, is the real question.
All science does is show us how to move a whole bunch of piles of shit over into one big pile of shit, off in the corner. Or perhaps on to an unsuspecting group of poor people because, the burden demands to be he held and somebody has to hold the bag of shit. Right?

We may interpret this as convenience... But the tragedy of the commons says that we can't even have science if someone isn't holding what it is we don't want to be holding... I'm not saying I didn't love science or not think it's super interesting or anything... Can we really say it alleviates suffering or does it displace it for one group of people until a new problem comes in and takes that one's place? How many people here will be holding the bag of shit tonight? USA numba 1!!!
(S)uggest (A)lternative (M)odern (L)ogin: OIDC/Oauth2 ?

The "Continue with" buttons that include Microsoft, Google, and Apple, tend to pick up most SMBs without SAML SSO headaches on either side.

Like so:

https://www.xsplit.com/user/auth

https://id.atlassian.com/login

Use an email domain restriction, and you have by and large SSO; the user can only log into your SaaS if the user is an active account at that company.

Storing user passwords yourself is a liability, indirect or direct: https://www.reuters.com/technology/eu-privacy-regulator-fine...
Run like a startup in what respect?

It was a massive government-directed military project in wartime that was able to recruit all the top theoretical physicists at the time around a common aim in an urgent technological arms race to build the bomb. It included a vast effort of army engineers to build the facilities to process the fuel and so on. I'm not seeing the parallels with startups.
That might have been true in the early days of the telegraph, but for as long as I can remember (and up until we cancelled our subscription), the bylines in our local paper were extremely clear on this point. Anything that was not local had a byline with the name of the reporter, their city, and “via Associated Press”, or similar.
Canoo hit with two supplier lawsuits as last remaining co-founder leaves
This ssh web client doesn't require credit card for the first week, but they do require that after the first week. Although you won't be charged for the first month.
The authors said that they are open to discuss the future of the application...
As a scientist, I agree, although for not quite the reason you gave. Scientists are given tremendous freedom and resources by society (public dollars, but also private dollars like at my industry research lab). I think scientists have a corresponding higher duty for honesty.

Jobs at top institutions are worth much more than their nominal salary, as evidenced by how much those people could be making in the private sector. (They are compensated mostly in freedom and intellectual stimulation.) Unambiguously faking data, which is the sort of thing a bad actor might do to get a top job, should be considered at least as bad a moral transgression as stealing hundreds of thousands or perhaps a few million dollars.

(What is the downside? I have never once heard a researcher express feeling threatened or wary of being falsely/unjustly accused of fraud.)
Reference counting is ultimately a GC, although not a tracing GC which is the most common kind. I also don't really see the appeal of not having a GC in a language like that. If it doesn't compete with C/C++ for performance and low level support then not having a GC is no longer an advantage.

That said Koka still remains very cool for the effect system though, and I would really like to see it in a mainstream language!
I don't see why my personal anecdote is any less useful than GP's claim. GP's comment isn't nuanced skepticism about product gaps, or concrete examples of inaccuracy. It's a wholesale dismissal of any utility. AGI isn't even mentioned in the article. This also seems "next to useless".

I appreciate your anecdotes on failures/embarrassment for people outside of tech- there's pretty clearly a gap in experience, understanding, and marketing hype.

I don't think it's useless to ask what that gap is, and why GP got such poor results.
My wife remembers going to Disney World with her grandparents when she was 6 or so. Her fondest memories were the hotel pool and the lizards that lounged around it. Those poor grandparents. Imagine spending a lot of money and then dealing with a tantrum when you say "Let's go to Disney World."
As they say: the scum rises to the top, true for academia, politics etc, any organization really.

Quote: "The Only Thing Necessary for the Triumph of Evil is that Good Men Do Nothing"

My own nuanced take on it:

Incompetent people are quick to grab authority and power. On the other hand principled, competent people are reluctant to take on positions of authority and power even when offered. For these people positions of power a)have connotations of a tyrant b) are uninteresting. (i.e technical problems are more interesting) . Also the reluctance of principled people to form coalitions to keep out the cheaters, because they are a divided bunch themselves exacerbates the problem, where as the cheaters often can collude together (temporarily) to achieve their nefarious goals.
Generally, you can't get that leverage in a retirement account. They don't let you trade on margin there.
I think he said an unmanned mission in two years and humans in 4 or 6 years.
> I really hate this. Let people decide, don’t treat them like kids.

Don't we have enough proof by now that this doesn't work? Just thinking of recent examples like masks, vaccines, stricter tobacco laws.

Besides, it's not a zero-sum game, you can work on "fixing" air travel while at the same time also work on "fixing" other emissions.
What kind of "from"? For example, ethnically, due to his Hebrew name, he's seems to be from Israel or at least the Levant.
I think acknowledging the huge role played by chance in your home ownership (and elsewhere in your life) is very important to stay humble, and to have more correct beliefs and fewer incorrect ones. I call it gratitude.
Just pump and dump, boys. Pump and dump.
> Huh, thanks for replying seriously to my snark, that's more than what I expected!

Quite frankly, the snark was warranted. I'm not a Lisper, but I do know more, and I should have been more precise.

> About CLOS, I suggest at least making method combination more flexible than C++'s override. At least a way to run both the parent and child methods is often needed (maybe in a specific order, maybe with a way to collect all the return values).

I agree with this. However, Yao will not have inheritance; instead, it will be more like Go: composition over inheritance. And interfaces. So I could be wrong, but without inheritance, I'm not sure the entire complexity of the CLOS is needed. Do correct me, though.

> Declarations are basically C/C++'s pragmas and __attribute__, but standardized and using a seamless syntax.

That's such a nicer description than in CLtL2. And yes, Yao will have them.

> The ClTl2 additions I'm talking about are ways for the compiler to give lexical information to macros: see https://github.com/Zulu-Inuoe/trivial-cltl2 and https://github.com/alex-gutev/cl-environments

If those are just for giving info to macros, Yao already has that; the lexer will tell keywords if the given token is a package, a keyword, an operator, a function, a type, etc., along with other info.
Truth doesn't matter to him as long as it brings hype.
How tolerant are plants to cosmic rays?
> There's absolutely no reason to do anything above ground on the Moon

Is there a reason to do anything below ground? We already aren't doing anything above ground.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Darl_McBride

https://darlmcbride.com/
Show HN: Just launched MVP for new contractor discovery tool – feedback?
Maybe he doesn't actually know anything?
How do stem cells move?
The point is that I don't believe Turing's ideas were widely considered strange at the time. The point is more that, even under conditions of honest actions, it's very easy for educated, smart, and sincere thinkers to take for fact something that with time we believe is wildly not fact.

Science even at it's most sincere should always be approached with thoughtful skepticism. The phrase that I hear touted often these days "trust the science", is in essence not how science should be thought of.
I keep clicking on these 'MTA' articles expecting them to be about a "message transfer agent".

Then I think, oh, right, wrong MTA. Guess I've spent too much time dealing with email servers.