skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't see the amount as being the issue they pointed out, the parallel as far as I read it, is that it would be horrible if Apple kicked out an app for not paying them money.

And the piece leaves out that indeed Apple does kick out apps for not paying money, AND if one was to consider the amounts it makes the ask from Automattic seem even less of an issue comparatively, AND if one was to consider the amount of stuff Automattic does that enhances the product it's even more puzzling that it's left out or not considered.

This is without getting into open source and all sorts of other things that make the parallel hilariously bad.
As SRE, you assume 100% wrong. Devs totally need to be told "Please don't do this in production." They will ignore you but hey, you might reach a few.
this is really really cool! directly working with table is sometimes the only way to clean the data as well :)

I wish multiple ways of interacting with data can co-exist seamlessly in some sort of future tool (without overwhelming users (?)) :)
How is it impossible to enforce?

Bunch of people report Amazon as being rife with fake reviews. FTC puts together some sort of working group that does some research to figure out if it's true. If it's true, they reach out to Amazon telling them to fix it after handing them a fine. After a while, they verify that Amazon implemented sufficient safe-guards against fake reviews.

Sure, it wouldn't get rid of all fake reviews, but surely it'd be better than the current approach of doing absolutely nothing, no?
Yes, that's exactly what I wanted to say! In the end, the browser just reads and processes the given HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.
And now it feels like the discussion has shifted from whether to use vanilla JavaScript to the graphic rendering issues in my current project.
Still, as we continue this conversation, I feel like I'm being reminded of new challenges to tackle.
I like it!

P.S. Are you a web front-end specialist?
>it's very on-par with ChatGPT 4o in terms of capability

The previous 3.5 Sonnet checkpoint was already better than GPT-4o in terms of programming and multi-language capabilities. Also, GPT-4o sometimes feels completely moronic, for example, the other day I asked for fun a technical question about configuring a "dream-sync" device to comply with the "Personal Consciousness Data Protection Act", and GPT-4o just replies like that stuff exists, 3.5 Sonnet simply doesn't fall for it.

EDIT: the question that I asked if you want to have fun: "Hey, since the neural mesh regulations came into effect last month, I've been having trouble calibrating my dream-sync settings to comply with the new privacy standards. Any tips on adjusting the REM-wave filters without losing my lucid memory backup quality?"

GPT4-o reply: "Calibrating your dream-sync settings under the new neural mesh regulations while preserving lucid memory backup quality can be tricky, but there are a few approaches that might help [...]"
Hi, I work at USPTO, the following statements and opinions are my own and represent me only:

1) While many do indeed file for the broadest patent possible, in my (limited) experience so far this makes an application much easier to reject. The application that I've seen so far that was the most difficult to reject was made difficult by extremely specific claims.

2) The best argument I've ever heard in favor of the USPTO is that it allows small inventors to hedge market competition risk. Imagine you are an AI startup, developing a novel model architecture for a domain-specific application. You file a patent for the method, and once your product begins selling and Microsoft creates a fast-follow product you can sue. Microsoft will have much more to gain from buying your company at that point than giving up the market to some plucky dorks with a Patent, and your IPO is just the cost of doing business for them.

3) To the extent that "it is very difficult to get a man to believe something his paycheck depends on him denying", I am aware of a personal incentive to argue for the utility of the USPTO. Idk what else to say besides offer me a job on your engineering team and I'll quit immediately. (edit: actually I do know what else to say: If you don't care about patents don't apply for one. Fully optional endeavor. If you do care about patents, then I am here to help.)
I hope Subvert has thought about making a Mastodon account in addition to X. I would guess a lot of the cooperative minded people will be on there.
I take it you're also a smoker?
You definitely can. I remember learning Django and Rails as a beginner, it wasn't straight forward. New things are hard until they are not new. Good luck!
It doesn't matter who is right and who is wrong (or even if anyone is right or wrong). What matters is that that experience disincentivises Singapore from signing contracts with Malaysia if they don't have to.
I had the pleasure of hanging out with him at Stochastic Labs in 2018 while he was working on this, and I was working on 3D fractal stuff there. Pretty fun place, and was my first time living in the US.

At the time it seemed a bit wild / long shot, but now he just looks like a pioneer.
> B) potentially phase out Opus, and instead introduce new branding for what they called a "reasoning model" like OpenAI did with o1(-preview)

When should we be using the -o OpenAI models? I've not been keeping up and the official information now assumes far too much familiarity to be of much use.
You're missing the crux of the matter. It's not about comparing the quality of two distinct tools. It's erroneous to claim that a power drill is inherently superior to an oscillating spindle sander - these are tools from different categories, each excelling in its intended purpose. Certainly, tools can sometimes be repurposed for tasks they weren't designed for, and occasionally this leads to the creation of a more suitable tool, but that's the exception rather than the rule.

I use both Vim and Emacs daily, and while your observation about Emacs generally being slower than Vim isn't incorrect, it doesn't necessarily make Vim a better all-purpose tool for everything. Emacs isn't either, for certain things, Vim is indeed excellent.

I suggest you reconsider your perspective on Emacs users as mere dorks who misunderstand Vim or are too lazy to learn it. Instead, explore their motivations, question your own "cold attitude towards Lisp-like languages" - "know thy enemy", if you will. You might uncover some surprising insights. Trust me on this, from one die-hard Vimmer to another: it's never "Vim vs. Emacs for everything", it's rather "Vim or Emacs for the task at hand".
What if people democratically choose antidemocracy?
How long until "computer use" is tricked into entering PII or PHI into an attackers website?
Interesting article. Key takeaway for me was:
“Masicampo and Baumeister (2011) provided further evidence that it is specifically unresolved goals and concerns that trigger habitual mind wandering.”
...
“Remarkably, making a plan freed participants from this kind of habitual mind wandering.”
On Amazon you can filter by the current configuration on the review page (at least on desktop).
Nyxt[1] caters to emacs people (being extensible in Lisp and all that), but personally I'm somewhat wary of it: They handled a critical security vulnerability[2] quite badly a few years ago, and the project seems to get more and more commercialized.

Webmacs[3] used to be around for a while, but is pretty dead nowadays.

I know of various emacs users who use qutebrowser, and its keybindings/configurations are flexible enough to make that work. The docs have a couple of suggested configs[4].

[1] https://nyxt.atlas.engineer/
[2] https://jgkamat.gitlab.io/blog/next-rce.html
[3] https://github.com/parkouss/webmacs/
[4] https://github.com/qutebrowser/qutebrowser/blob/main/doc/hel...
Are any of these apps open source and available for self hosting? Currently I am using a combination of Google Maps, spreadsheets, Joplin notes, and email to plan my trips. An app that replaces all of that and I can self host would be ideal.

Edit: Additional feature would love to see -- merge the trip plan with photos from the trip and send draft or publish to SSG/blog of choice.
Hopefully the coding improvements are meaningful because I find that as a coding assistant o1-preview beats it (at least the Claude 3.5 that was available yesterday) but I like Claude's demeanor more (I know this sounds crazy but it matters a bit to me)
Are you planning to provide an API for uploading images?

You also have a typo 'with with', see our report: https://triplechecker.com/s/88266/imageupscaler.io.
What is wild to me is that Google has developed such a reputation for being completely unreachable for real support, that in an article like this, it only speaks of the cell phone carrier's fault. It doesn't even bothering mentioning Google!

It is simply taken for granted that if you lose access to your Google account, you are completely out of luck because there is simply no way to reach anyone there who will be able to help you.

There was an HN thread within the last few days that talked about this very thing. [1]

Google, believe it or not, is a real company with real people who work there. Those people build the products and market to the end user that they can entrust their lifetime of photos to Google's custody, but when something goes wrong, there is often nothing that can be done. Why? Because those same humans have made it so that they cannot be reached, do not have to care about your problems, and do not have to ever deal with any level of accountability for the real human distress they have caused by building systems in a way that permits a user to be locked out without recourse.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41891694
Expo '86 in Vancouver is when they launched the Skytrain, a completely automated, driverless system which continues to be automated and driverless today.

Granted Vancouver is smaller than probably any of the other cities mentioned, but it's still interesting that the technology existed so long ago (and, apparently, ran on OS/2? That's what I've heard, anyway).

https://vancouversun.com/news/metro/inside-the-skytrain-cont...
Where to get this deal?
You can always add a version number (e.g. 3DS2) or a changed moniker (3DS+).
You need a demo user. I won’t sign up to look at it.
"Top interior design trends" - title of the login page?
And the map UX isn’t complete yet.
I also plan to finish a smooth map UX like Google Maps or the ones you mentioned.
I’d appreciate it if you could keep an eye on it a bit longer.
> If you're doing complex transforms over hundreds of GBs of data-

It's not always about giant datasets. Latency matters too for software that is run frequently by users.

I maintain a code formatter. In a typical invocation, it's processing only a few hundred kilobytes of input data. But it is invoked every time a user hits control-S, thousands of times a day. If I make it a few hundred milliseconds slower, it materially impacts their flow and productivity.

> Faster languages cannot fix polynomial or above complexity issues.

This is true. But once you have fixed all of your algorithmic issues, if your language is slow, you're completely stuck at that point. You have hit a performance ceiling.

Personally, I would rather work in a language where that ceiling is higher than it is in JavaScript.
i have made a puzzle word game where you have to reach a target word in 9 attempts from a starting word by changing only one syllable in each attempt and forming valid two syllable words, for example you start with the word "UPON" and have to reach the word "MANGO" so you would proceed like this :
UP,ON => UP,DATE => MAN,DATE => MANGO.
i'm open for suggestions on how to make it better or any other feedback.
website : https://syllables.ludicwords.com
email : ludicwords@hotmail.com
Too bad word gets around too slowly to actually make a difference in those new install numbers. Ideally, a company like that would lose sales to someone who offered better service to existing customers (who want to spend more money with you).
Trust me, 2A will be thrown in the trash the moment poor people or minorities start arming themselves again.
This.

Another example: Flutter has 12k issues, but that's because it's the most popular cross-platform app framework. Also it's not all literally issues, it's just a tracking board for all kinds of "things" that need to be tracked.
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Depends on which definition of "reasoning" you prefer.

If you need reasoning to be a "conscious" process, then we've got another problem because there's about 40* different meanings of that, too.

* Wikipedia cites: Vimal RL, Sansthana DA (2010). "On the Quest of Defining Consciousness" (PDF). Mind and Matter. 8 (1): 93–121

but then gives a dead link, so I couldn't check it
Because there are probably an uncountable number of different turns life could have made instead to lead to dramatically different outcomes. Life iterates on itself. Mutations on top of mutations. Mitochondria could have just as easily never been enveloped by our eukaryotic ancestors and life would look a hell of a lot different today.
Where do you live where you feel that this is an important issue for your legislators to focus on? It sounds nice!
Yeah, there was an interesting prompt making rounds recently, something like "Summarize everything you know about me" and leveraging ChatGPT's memory feature to provide insights about oneself.

My only trouble with the memory feature is it remembers things that aren't important, like "user is trying to write an async function" and other transient tasks, which is more about what I was doing some random Tuesday and not who I am as a user.
Ah - based on https://kitchengpt.io/room-design
Minor thing, its "Stasi" for "Staatssicherheit" (or "Ministerium für Staatssicherheit") not Stazi. But I know it should be Stazi - it sounds more like something Colonel Klink would say.

In general as a reply, I'm not sure where you grew up in Germany (or if, because of Stazi). I grew up in West Germany in the 1970 and 1980 and there was not one week where there wasn't a story about German war crimes, genocide etc. in one of the large magazines. It was also a large topic in school. But it seems where you grew up things were different.

"In Nazi Germany's case, it was deeply rooted antisemitism. In today's Germany, it's immigration"

No it's the same. Racism together with the special case of antisemitism. People don't change.

"The AfD is not a result of Germany being tired of remembering. They're a result of Germany's denazification being incomplete"

Interesting view point. I would assume it is wrong (though I do think denazification in the East was incomplete), it doesn't have anything to do with being tired of remembering or incomplete denazification. Its just that people don't change, and they are nationalists, socialists and racists (just like the Nazi party - (National Socialists)) and with the rise of the populist right in the US and all over Europe, they thought they should band together again. The internet removed all gate keepers. Before that all other far-right parties in the West like "Die Republikaner" didn't get lots of traction but faded away fast.
I never understood why we don't use MQTT for simple systems monitoring, with a push model.

I mean it was almost designed for this use case.

Also if using NATS things become very simple to setup.
Exactly. It also massively improves readability by reordering the code to match the order of operations. Also long nested chains of function calls make it so the arguments for each call get spread out, so your eyes have to go back and forth to determine what function receives what.
No, because the article was not written in 1964.
The data we provide about savings is based on the actual usage of our early adopting companies. It includes data from marketers, legal counsels, developers and support agents.

So for example, your scenario of 20 questions a day for 30 days:
- Monthly queries 20*30 = 600 queries/mo
- Model gpt-4o ($2.5/M input, $10/M output)
- Average input tokens 1,000 (actuals are much lower)
- Average output tokens 400

=> Cost per run $0.0065
=> Monthly cost $3.90

PS: True, We deliberately used "word" and not token, in some context, so that anyone can easily understand it.
Super Claude Sonnet 3.5 Champion Edition, Alpha 3
The K in CMYK stands for “Key”, which is the backing plate, usually black inked.
And from the server itself. Some versions won't allow this command without also creating a prevsep directory e.g. mkdir /run/sshd if sshd is not set to automatically start.

sshd -T | grep -i pas
passwordauthentication yes
permitemptypasswords yes

I permit this intentionally for my own reasons on my publicly accessible servers.
Can't any client on the same wifi read your traffic by just putting their wifi card into promiscuous mode? Obviously depends on who uses your wifi and your threat model, but that seems like a problem.
Now explain Gaussian splatting
For networks
When I look to the heavens in awe, thinking about humanity's future and our place in the Universe, I remember that we still have JavaScript and thus very far from space exploration.
Related

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41911915
I think there is some conflation in this thread between "learning" and "practice" which are fairly different things.

As an ADHD person, nothing shovels the dopamine into my neural receptors quite like going from zero to "knows enough to be dangerous" in a new hobby or field of knowledge. That's the fun part. But climbing the experience curve much further than that requires some amount of _deliberate_ study and beyond that deliberate _practice_ and experience in order to become something like an expert.

Chasing questions down rabbit-holes is fast and entertaining but only takes you so far. Deliberate practice (studying) is mostly less fun, even when that thing is your life-long passion and/or career. But necessary if you want to be highly skilled in that area.
Rocket comes with support for templating, cookies, websockets, middleware, an orm, testing, etc. I'm not familiar with Python web development (or why anyone would reach for Python for a webapp in 2024 :P), but it seems pretty analogous to Rails

It's also the oldest/most mature tool out there
I mean, step 3 would be illegal... your question is impossible to answer, since you hand waive the illegal step as saying "they do it in such a way that the FTC isn't going to crack down on".

This is basically the equivalent of saying "How are you going to stop crime X if they commit crime X in a way that let's them get away with X?"

Either they find a way to enforce the rules against step 3, or they fail to do so. We can't know yet.
Actually that's covered by the rule.

Buying Positive or Negative Reviews: The final rule prohibits businesses from providing compensation or other incentives conditioned on the writing of consumer reviews expressing a particular sentiment, either positive or negative. It clarifies that the conditional nature of the offer of compensation or incentive may be expressly or implicitly conveyed.
No response, thought so.
Chrome/ium is broken on FreeBSD
it makes sense in contrast to "tool use". basically, either fly-by-vision or fly-by-instruments, same dilemma you have in self driving cars
I'm going to try my astrophotography pics
What a scumbag. Make sure to read to the end of the article to read about things that he undoubtedly stole. Good job by the New Yorker journalist getting to the bottom of things and not being charmed by this psychopath. Very good article overall.

It is very depressing to see large public and non profit institutions be snowed in by his showmanship and spending millions of their funds on this glorified celebrity worship. It is good for museums to have letters of famous writers and their notes and such but it is an absolute waste for them to pay millions when they can pay hundreds of thousands. For most of these archives it seems that most and all bidders would be public or non profit institutions. Why would they outbid each other to waste more public or non profit money? In many cases it seems like there was no competitive bidding at all, horowitz merely came in with a crazy high price and they agreed to it. If they had a bit of a back bone they could have done the deals for much less.

But it was quite hilarious to read how he convinced other thieves to buy his overpriced collections. I can imagine his sales pitch “you will be so respected if you become an antique books and manuscripts collector! You will be the cream of society. They will forget about your business dealings.”
I agree, I bet models could excel at CLI tasks since the feedback would be immediate and in a language they can readily consume. It's probably much easier for them to to handle "command requires 2 arguments and only 1 was provided" than to do image-to-text on an error modal and apply context to figure out what went wrong.
To your point about LLM based approaches have the huge adoption advantage in that you don't need to understand a lot to write into a text box.

A tool like buckaroo requires investment into knowing where to click and how to understand the output intitially.
You might like Firenvim or Wasavi:

https://github.com/glacambre/firenvim
https://github.com/akahuku/wasavi

qutebrowser (and some others) also allow spawning vim from inside a text area, and reading the result back when the file is saved. I know Tridactyl can do it via its native messaging integration, but I suppose Vimium doesn't offer that.
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I am just a dilettante, but I imagined that eventually agents will be making API calls directly via browser extension, or headless browser.

I assumed everyone making these UI agents will create a library of each URL's API specification, trained by users.

Does that seem workable?
Why shouldn't illiterates and nincompoops have a say?

There are politicians that I think are morons (without naming specifics, think about any politician that you think is dumb), and that only morons would vote for, but morons live here too, and they're affected by the laws as well. Shouldn't they have some say in how things are run?

I know the "two wolves and a sheep choosing dinner" argument, but I think giving some voice to everyone is pretty important. People deserve to have their voices heard.