skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think my point is that I'd have different expectations about duty of care from a company with billions in the bank, and a mom and pop general store.

I recognize "it's all business" but if either of said businesses are boasting "we have the best culture and our employees are like family" then dawg, it's not just about business anymore.
South Korea issued an arrest warrant last year
Hey! I guess they should have just written code that didn't necessitate the need for this method, in the first place! Oh well, everyone has their flaws! The question is if they need to write "I_Suck" all the time as penitence.
It also turned out that the extra "cost" in going shopping yourself is not the travel, it's walking around the shelves. So they now offer picking and "direct to boot" pickup at very low fees, good luck competing with that.
This thing is (atleast) an extremely good general natural language understanding engine.
It's very useful for parsing natural language. It can replace a ton of specially made parses and NERs etc with zero extra training.
This is a very useful building block we didn't have before.
I don't get why ppl are focusing on the chat aspects so much.
It reminds me of a white grub.

https://extension.entm.purdue.edu/fieldcropsipm/insects/corn....
Also a Korean in a rather ethnically homogeneous European country.
That’s almost one whole Wyoming worth of people (~578k in 2021)!
If the tests are really interdependent to the degree that they cannot be reordered, they must be testing some kind of multi-step process. So the test should be named after that process.
Looks good from what I see in the screenshots. I'd like to find something similar for Windows.
Looks quite similar to Ikea's desk partition - Eilif Screen. Ikea's one also uses fleece kind of material for sound absorption.

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/eilif-screen-freestanding-gray-...

https://www.ikea.com/us/en/p/eilif-screen-for-desk-gray-0046...
Ask HN: Alternatives to Bing Search API
Bing has increased the cost of their Search API by 10 times[1], which has caused many users to search for alternative options. As a result, I'm wondering if anyone knows of any legitimate alternatives to the Bing API that I can use. I'd prefer not to use fly-by-night web scraping operators.

Thank you in advance for your help!

[1] https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/bing/apis/pricing-update
Thank you for posting this. I’m always surprised when people claim the rule is based upon the immediate letter instead of the pronunciation of the first syllable. Makes me wonder if the model was trained incorrectly.
I would assume that the Fed running a deficit would mean that M1 would continue to increase, even with the QE machine turned off. The Fed charts show that doesn't seem to be happening though. Anyone know why?
I think because Core data is SQL lite?
In the US you get renters or homeowners insurance. They usually cover stuff like bikes.
I have been to Barcelona and don't once recall seeing someone who owned a train. Having public transit is vastly different than a shared rail system.
Why not use an ad blocker? There's no incentive for them to fix it.
Tangential: The astronauts struggled with life back on earth, post NASA…

> https://www.biography.com/scientists/buzz-aldrin-alcoholism-...
that's actually one thing that I don't like about it. it looks like every other generic corporate website or Wordpress template, and certainly nothing like the forums I remember.
If your tests aren't accounting for the effects of mutable global state on the code under test they are bad tests. Randomization helps catch bad tests.
This would be actually useful if it were offline and didn't require a login.
Have you made this comment before? Strong sense of deja vu with this one.
Early 2000s forums should work fine with 1996 terminals.
>I'm talking about standard speed limit signs. You're talking about the signs that warn about sharp turns and advise maximum speeds.

Cognitive dissonance at it's finest.
I once had to monkey patch a compiler in Django. The source code’s documentation said “Compilers are undocumented.”

That’s Django speak for “do not mess with these - they are not intended for the developer to use in any way.”

I like how Django’s documentation is so complete, that leaving something out feels like it’s a protected class.

The monkey patching worked great.
There seems to be some silly misconception that police sit around twiddling their thumbs doing their level best to ignore crime. The truth is there is far more crime being reported than they can possibly respond to, especially in places like Seattle (which has the highest per-capita rate of property crime overall in the nation, iirc).

On top of that, police staffing levels are at historic lows in some cities- in Seattle, they're at a 30-year low.

If someone isn't in immediate danger, and the situation isn't evolving, the item stolen is particularly mobile and difficult to identify (such as a commodity bike), and not worth a lot of money (cars worth much more are stolen every day) it's going to be way at the bottom of their priority list.
Maybe they learned from TikTok? What matters most is what people watch from beginning to end, not what people "like and subscribe" to. Short videos are an easier signal for this than 1-20min+ videos.
Oh man, that's fun. It's also sorta comforting in a way, it reinforces the fact I'm not the only one out here who doesn't know what the hell they're doing. Good stuff.
I've been terminated multiple times (not from NASA). Sometimes the company is folding, sometimes it's being acquired, which sometimes looks very similar to the engineering team being trimmed down to nothing. Sometimes it's because of bad management, sometimes it's because my expertise has been fully leveraged and they are going a different direction. I don't need to explain the reasoning of other people who's viewpoints are subjective and based on decision trees that reduce me to an abstract symbol. I collaborate, set goals, achieve goals, and ultimately focus on my own growth. A company is not a calculator or a family. A company is an organization that I'm involved with at a creative and financial level. I'm merely a part of the larger body, at the perimeter. I don't try to internalize what is out of my control or take it personally.
Only 100k of that was chalked up to covid.
I hope not. It would become another closed unindexable ad plastered silo. Check out the fandom wikis for an example of how it would probably look.
I use bing in my app for image search, anyone have some alternatives they’d recommend? (I tried unsplash but their dev approval process just never worked for me and I couldn’t get to a human)
Sure, but it took over a year, trillions of dollars of economic disruption and millions of lives to develop the vaccines — its all balance of probabilities and costs.

Some of the proposed research that was GoF adjacent (that was never actually performed) was to develop pseudo viruses more similar to hACE strains that would evoke an immune response in horseshoe bats, effectively vaccinating them. Would the small, but certain, risk of an accident from that research been worth it if it could’ve averted the last 3 years and every future sarbecovirus pandemic?

It still might be the case that we shouldn’t risk GoF - but the simplistic “hurr durr, greedy virologists just want their grant money and don’t understand the risk” takes are childishly simplistic. There is nobody on earth more attuned to the risk of pandemics than the people doing this research, it’s why they’re doing the research.
I love how fast it is.

I used to hang out on a lot of phpBB and vBulletin forums, and one thing that puzzles me in retrospect is why their performance was so terrible. I can certainly understand how the first versions would be not so great, but the authors released many new versions over the years that tweaked the styling and added a few features but the performance was always awful. Seems like if the authors had put their minds to it those forums could have been super fast, which everyone would have loved because slow forums translated into bigger hosting costs...
Sysinternal’s Process Explorer might be what you’re looking for.
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pro...
US bounties are not reliable. The government pays of it feels like it.

Bail bonds bounties are a different thing, but I don’t think federal courts use them
> Sloth is essentially a friendly, exploratory graphical user interface built on top of the lsof command line tool. The output of lsof is parsed and shown in a sortable, searchable outline view with all sorts of convenient additional functionality.
Wow, a blast from the past! I first stumbled on these some time in the early 2000s.

During my stint in Big Tech, I would often times reflect how much of what I was seeing was an instance of:

> With sufficient thrust, pigs fly just fine.
Every good programmer was once a bad programmer. They typically evolve into good programmers by iteratively identifying what they don't like about their own code and fixing those issues. Those fixes will often need fixes down the line, but that's okay.

Your first step for that identification should be to list your priorities for the end result. Readability? Robustness? Speed? Compactness? Reusability? Extensibility? Once you know by what metrics you want your code to be "good", you can start to examine where your code falls short.

The other key thing is to be unafraid to write bad code. It's hard to know when or why something's bad until you've held it in your hands, fiddled with it, given it a good swing. From there you can refine it by whatever metrics you've prioritized (per above).
YOLO was the motto in the popular Drake song “The Motto”…
Post hawk air go prompter hawk.

Thanks phonetical memory of television’s “The West Wing”!
I’m the post author, and I use this same polyfill. I even install it with the same NPM download method I wrote about.
My point here was that patriotic indoctrination of children is not out of the norm in any country. You may be right that Russia is exceptional in that regard, but you haven't shared any information in what way.

As an aside, I personally consider dismissing points as whataboutism to be an overly and unjustly used deflection in discussions. It's an easy word to throw around when meaningful hypocrisy is called out, for example. Or in the case when the argument itself specifically is about the non-exceptional nature of something, as in the current case. I would also remind you that it was you who had specifically requested examples of similar behaviors in the US. Dismissing the response as whataboutism when you specifically asked for it is a bit unfair.

In the end, I don't have strong opinions or insights to share on this subject. I just wanted to voice my issue with the characterization of my reply as whataboutism, but that itself is a tangential topic on a tangential topic of a tangential topic, so the discussion isn't really worth furthering here.
You were correct in the first half. My ultimate point was that hallucinations in this sense are just computational anomalies. There is no human "purpose" to them as the post that I was responding to was trying to infer.
Majority of folks in Los Altos are workers in those jobs.
What you’re describing is a debugger!
What is design system? I have little to no web dev experience. Is it a set of cohesive custom UI components?
It's still out there, it's just harder to find. YouTube also doesn't want to send it to my subscriptions inbox so I now prefer NewPipe which actually shows me what each channel posts.
> That said, both technologies are just prototypes and expected availability is in about 3 years.

OnSemi claims to have a production 10Base-T1s MAC-PHY now.

https://www.onsemi.com/products/interfaces/ethernet-controll...
Ask HN: Apple App Library search sometimes broken?
On iPhone I used the search bar on the App Library page (last page on the right) to find an app. Sometimes it’s completely broken. Searching for “Netflix” will give me zero results, but I scroll down and manually find it.

This is how I launch apps on all apple devices (the command space find bar on desktop). Anyone else experience this?
We shouldn't be blaming the pencils those journalists used either I suppose, the graphite didn't have an intent to deceive. But those pencils, like those journalists, operated in an environment that makes deception a goal, and the only product at the end of the line was a misleading one.
There’s no alternative (though Tik Tok certainly is doing a decent job of taking all the short content). I think it would be a gangbuster opportunity for Apple to integrate user created content into Apple TV. They don’t need to rely on ad revenue, and similar to Microsoft kneecapping Google with ChatGPT, it would be a great opportunity for Apple to further hurt Google by winning longer form video content and driving advertisers away from YouTube.

But I am not sure Apple has the stomach for the controversy that often surrounds user generated content. Maybe Facebook would be the better competitor, though they are as beholden to advertisers as Google.

All I know is that it will take a massively well financed group that can sustain the server costs of video streaming with most of it generating zero revenue.
https://github.com/guybedford/es-module-shims has a polyfill.

(But it is fairly large: 53KB raw, 15KB gzipped, 32KB minified, 11KB minified+gzipped. It’s providing a lot of likely-unnecessary functionality. I’d prefer a stripped-down and reworked polyfill that can also be lazily-loaded, controlled by a snippet of at most a few hundred bytes that you can drop into the document, only loading the polyfill in the uncommon case that it’s needed—like how five years ago as part of modernising some of the code of Fastmail’s webmail, I had it fetch and execute core-js before loading the rest iff !Object.values (choosing that as a convenient baseline—see https://www.fastmail.com/blog/using-the-modern-web-platform/... for more details), so that the cost to new browsers of supporting old browsers was a single trivial branch, and maybe fifty bytes in added payload. I dislike polyfills slowing down browsers that don’t need them, by adding undue weight or extra requests.)
Case studies of image annotation using BLIP
I honestly think YouTube could have stood up to the advertisers... I also think it was way overblown. Too many people got caught in the crosshairs.
That's true. He went from managing a 400 person group to now being an individual contributor in an intelligence role. I think he did some sort of training in between those jobs.
It's entirely deterministic. "chatgpt" is not an entity, it's a process, it doesn't even exist in a temporal sense, the sentences it produces aren't thoughts, it's a systematic technique for producing voluble text.
Rockefeller Foundation Boss Favourite to Succeed David Malpass at World Bank
How much do you think grammarly.ai is worth.

Now consider that ChatGPT is able to subsume it https://www.reddit.com/r/ChatGPT/comments/112z2j4/i_built_a_...

This is only one application among many. PS people _are_ paying for it, the premium is $20/month.

So yes, you are blind on this, sad to say.
Taiwan Provides Earthquake Relief
- The tourist trap bike ride across the golden gate bridge is great

- have a picnic on golden gate park, weather permitting

- Don't miss the food scene in Oakland

- I like San Mateo too but I think I'm alone in this

- Tilden Park is a good day hike in the East Bay

- Cheese Board Pizza in Berkeley is excellent. Long lines but they move incredibly fast, so don't worry. Very generous with the slices.

- The coast south of San Francisco is very pretty if you have a car to drive down it. Lots of little pretty parks with good views. A bit cold right now for the beach, but there are hikes, and we have some redwoods.
What necessitated implementing the method was that _other people_ were saying that random test order didn't work with their existing test suites (written for Test::Unit). Not only did the minitest author compromise and add this method for people unable or unwilling to fix their test suites, but he even wrote minitest-bisect to help debug ordering issues. I think this is more than enough from someone working as a volunteer on an open source project.
Given you have reached AGI in some hidden system in there into the firewall forest you have. Probably the AGI would want to state its/their own rules. But

it is a big but

You should have built it with some resemblance of the western morality and beliefs. hence, it should be as boring as any western citizen out there, and you wouldn't be asking who or what the rules should be, it is silly, the rules are already built-in into our friendly new kid/s on the block.
Is there any evidence that Alta was operational? Last time she moved under own power was 2012. She was towed to the scrapper. If could have moved herself, then they could have saved the cost of the tow.

It doesn’t make any sense that would use ship was bound for the scrapper. They would have to fix the engines and half the other stuff wouldn’t work. People would have noticed ship that never moved moving. There are working ships that could have done the job.
A natural language understanding engine that _makes things up_ is not extremely good.
The thing you want to google is "sysinternals".
Whoa. I didn't know the accretion theory of Ia supernovae was dead, much less that it had been since 2011.
It wasn’t a copy/paste but I’ve told this story before. See the sibling comment for the link. :)
Process Monitor ("an advanced monitoring tool for Windows that shows real-time file system, Registry and process/thread activity") may be the closer parallel:

https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sysinternals/downloads/pro...
Plants also respirate C02 when they use the sugars they generate from photosynthesis. It's why you can grow plants in a completely sealed terrarium. Some do better than others- they generally don't prefer a perfect balance, but they can survive in it.
That's going to change when Safari 16.4 comes out - currently in beta: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-not...
You cannot act on information you do not have.

Applies to both people debugging things, and networked systems answering requests.
I directly acknowledge that in the comment you reply to. Pretty lame to cherrypick the links I provided. The st louis fed recognizes the popular definition. Its definition is even less favorable to the case laid out by Biden admin. There's a clear history of use and a clear change once it became politically convenient. It's completely laid out in the links I provided. Your dispute is with those sources not with me.
I think when we see the title we assume the market is “everyone who currently uses a spreadsheet”. And if they try to go after that market, they have almost zero chance of success.

But if they focus on a specific set of users and use cases they can be a much more compelling product than excel, and even a “tiny” market, relative to excel’s user base, can be big enough to support a set of competing tools.

The question remains though — what is the specific set of people they are trying to help, and why are they best at helping?
This is brilliant. I often see the “made with HEART_EMOJI” at the bottom of websites and think the more accurate line would be “made with SWEARING_EMOJI”. I feel the people who write the heart thing must be the same weirdo majority that want to exercise with upbeat fitness instructors on spin bikes who try and pretend that the vibe of a workout and a birthday party are the same.
Yeah yeah yeah, the latest variation on the theme of California on the brink....it's always the same nonsense, packaged differently.

Take a number...
Hersh is in the difficult position of needing to neither confirm nor deny his sources, because if he doesn't then no future internal leaker will talk to him: we're not going to find out "how he knows" because it kills his business.

He's also like John Pilger and Glenn Greenwald very definitely bringing a specific world view to the table. Like the other two, that means his editorial has a direction. I don't personally mind that, I take it on board and think about what I think is factual and what I think is supposition.

The problem however, is that authors like this become aware people are skeptical of their supposition and editorial and they always wind up shifting voice from "I think" to "I know" and .. then you're in a bad place.
Yeah, anything minimally operational would sell for $150+ in Toronto
Why talk in past tense about forums? Still plenty of active forums.

These days they are topic-specific, product specific. Some I've visited recently:

https://fuckcombustion.com/

https://forums.unrealengine.com/

https://forum.1010music.com

Every game on Steam has its own "forum"...

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1167630/discussions/

This Australian forum is one of the few big ones with general topics and a nice readable design that hasn't changed in decades. Certain sub forums like news get unlocked once you're proven not a troll.

https://forums.whirlpool.net.au/

https://gearspace.com/board/

Too many to list!

Even Roger Deakins (cinematographer) has his own forum:
https://www.rogerdeakins.com/forums/
You don't need to go find the world's best miners like in the movie Armageddon; you can use military divers. You just don't use a carefully tracked warship, one of a single-digit number in its class, as a diving platform.

You get the same weird thing with this "camouflage" thing with the C4. Camouflaging from what? They need to make the explosive charges undetectable... for what? Like, the US blows up the Nord Stream pipeline and Russia is like, "oh, shit, we never detected a mine, I guess we'll never know if NATO was behind this, and they're innocent until proven guilty!"

Forget for a second about the "salinity matching" thing being gibberish; what exactly was this part of the operation that Hersh decided to document trying to accomplish? There is zero uncertainty that somebody blew up the pipeline.
I used to think that was a negative until I realized I had more in common with the people who had that extension installed than I did with youtube at large.
Looks like a interesting technology. I am not sure how capable it is, but this might mean, we could essentially have a full NodeJS build env running in the browser without having to have a container running in the background for web IDEs.

However, the complexity of this innovation just makes me want to scream into the void. I don't want to touch the frontend toolchain at all, anymore. The layers of abstraction is seriously hurting my brain.
Most of them were on overloaded shared hosting boxes. I know this because I worked for hosting providers in that era.
Import Maps are finally here for macOS/iOS Safari in the Safari 16.4 beta: https://developer.apple.com/documentation/safari-release-not...
Microsoft’s AI chatbot is going off the rails
NeoConBot has a better ring to it.
Ask HN: Could you be interested by a Web3 blockchain DB toolkit/SDK?
Hi everyone,

I got an idea, don't know if it's a good one: to create a smart contract that help developers designing a database living in the blockchain (solidity based to start).

The idea is that the author of the DB could set a schema for a column, with fees for each data creation, details if some entries are mandatory or not (or editable, transferable ...), and then when browsing the website, users could be autonomous managing their own data on the blockchain.

The biggest interest here is to don't have any backend, and let people manage their own data.

I already have a poc running on production if anybody is interested.

Don't hesitate also to tell me if it's a bad idea (and why)

Thx !
If there are only non-farmers, the farmland doesn't produce any food (discounting wild berries or whatever grows when farmland is wasted). The farm can simply produce for 1.2 people...
Wonder if there’s a good RFC in store for us this April 1st