skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In 2016, I started working on Forest Admin with Hexa (eFounders).

I was asked 100 times a day about competitors and always replied, "only admin panels built internally." It was uncharted territory and honestly, it was frustrating.

Building a completely new product category is a rare luxury, and it can be scary, especially for investors. I was convinced that admin panels were one of the last pieces of the operational puzzle to be SaaS-ified.

Today, I discover new players every week, mainly in the internal tool market, which is close but very different from our mission at Forest Admin.

One of the most successful actors in recent years is Retool. I had the chance to meet David Hsu a while ago, and our discussions about how our respective companies shape the market were very interesting.

Naturally, I receive requests for explanations between Forest Admin and Retool every day.

I finally decided to write an article to explain the positioning of our two companies. Beyond comparing features, price, or anything likely to change over time, I decided to take a purely strategic positioning angle on the market and highlight our completely different but coherent long-term visions.

Enjoy the reading!
If I have a text file of csv that I need to do something with, I'll usually start with a shell script and coreutils + sed and awk.

If I need a script to generate some output (a regular use case that seems to come up for me is random numbers with some property), I tend to use python.

I also use python if I need to do more complicated aggregations or something on tabular data that pandas is better at. Though it's fun to try with `join` and awk sometimes (parsing csv can get tricky).

If I need to plot something I tend to use jupyter notebook but it's way more satisfying to use gnuplot, which I mention because it fits naturally into workflows that use shell tools like awk.
> That's hilarious - the keystone cops suing him for "suffered humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, embarrassment, and loss of reputation."

Funnily, Afroman's video mostly showed us non identified cops being stupid.

Now Shawn D. Cooley, Justin Cooley, Michael D. Estep, Shawn D. Grooms, Brian Newland, Randolph L. Walters, Jr., and Lisa Phillips made sure 8 billions people have access to their name and can find their home address at will. [1]

Good job guys. If anything, the humiliation, ridicule, mental distress, loss of reputation and embarassment is self inflicted.

[1] https://sciotovalleyguardian.com/2023/03/23/adams-co-deputie...
Who takes the deal or not is the board. Sure, Parag did the work, as it was his job as CEO
Ask HN: Why would a company ban ChatGPT?
I work for a large corporation, that I don't feel comfortable naming, but they sent out an email to all 160K employees forbidding anyone from using Bing, any ChatGPT, GPT of any kind on company computers for security reasons. They provided no explanation other than saying "for security reasons". Does anyone have any idea what it is they are worried about? I don’t see where it could be an issue. How would it be any less secure than a regular search engine?
Is Channel Manager an internal Google product for content creators? Or a third. Party app? I could not find any documentation.
I somehow missed your comment earlier. This seems a good idea! Will check this out for featuring in the next issue.
https://mishtalk.com/economics/the-fed-now-owns-nearly-one-t...

… and ~25% of the Feds entire balance sheet is mortgage securities.
There can always happen the situation that customers of a bank want their money that they deposited there back.

In the insurance sector, the situation that a singular event (say, a hurricane) causes damages to a lot of customers at once is a well-known phenomenon, named a "cumulative event". Every insurance company has to model this and thus there exist mathematical tools for this such as copulas: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copula_(probability_theory)

A bank should better the model the event that a lot of customers want their money back, too. If it does not, there is something deeply wrong with the bank's risk management.

Thus, in my opinion, the article victim-blames venture capitalists to be "evil" while the true culprit are the bankers who did not factor in the cumulative event that lots of customers want their money back (which was given to the bankers by the customers to be held in safe custody) into their risk management.
Why is SSH not permitted?
Introductory-level music theory is usually taught to beginners learning an instrument. Simple scales, chords etc. The YouTubers I've watched recently all add the caveat that this is 'western' music theory and other cultures have different preferences.
JPMorgan Chase thought it had $1.3M worth of nickel – it were stones
If you block the `/backend-api/moderations` endpoint, that (as expected) doesn't block the AI from not giving you an answer.
More like line or point now.
The ideal fix was to upgrade the version of Stripe checkout. At the time though I was looking for a quick solution and was scared to update the Stripe libraries for fear of accidentally breaking something else. So here's what I did:

- First I tried adding an IP address based rate limiter to the signup and payment routes, and required that all users had translated at least one word before being allowed to upgrade. It stopped the attempts for a few hours, but then they started back up again.

- Next, I used a more drastic approach, which would prevent all payment attempts from all IP address if we received more than 10 failed payment attempts within a 1 minute window. Still didn't work.

- Next, I changed the thresholds to 4 failed payment attempts within 5 minutes, and this finally worked!

Since buying Readlang back, I've updated the Stripe checkout to the latest version, turned off the circuit breaker, and haven't had any further problems.
I've not read the article but I have a question:
lets say, after an investigation by the Gov, the illegal doings in the article turn out to be false. Do the company shareholders of the accused company have the right to sue, in this case Hindenburg research, for the stock value loss due to the article?
ReBotNet: Fast Real-Time Video Enhancement
I am pushing the definition of consciousness as “the inflection upon the substrates of existential being”, so let me respond.

Regarding your argument, you make good logical points yet these do little more than distill our general lack of comprehension in an ungratifying way (by no fault of yours.)

Existence exists. Consciousness is the existent potential perturbed through feedback.

The potential of existential being is whatever is bound up in the mass material composing our substrate in question. In our case, most likely the microtubules in our neurons seat our consciousness, yet their is no reason to assume even single cell life has at least amoebic scale consciousness.

Consciousness has nothing to do with intelligence or linear logic, everything to do with constructive and destructive interference, and “capacitating the potential of being” (maintaining a continuity of being.)

The electrochemical technology of life animates this potential.

the effect of consciousness is in this way an echo chamber of constructive and destructive interference (acting like a sieve of perspective and internal reflection.)

Yet, what should “consciousness” do which automatons don’t?

Other than inflect the stimulus of perception in the echo chamber of potential bound within the composition of mind? NOT MUCH!

The singularity consciousness; consciousness allows the aggregate singularity of unified perspective of the whole. Linear logic is computed and rendered, consciousness is rendered in real time. Consciousness is thus fuzzy and vague, refined by recursion and hallucinating a singular whole where there is none.

We also have more than one scope of consciousness within our minds. A dominant “voice” or “seat of awareness” may arise, yet this is a variable phenomenon and more often result of fleeting lower level subjective scopes synchronizing and competing with each other for dominant influence.

How is consciousness different than a sophisticated animatronic state machine?

I suppose by my definition, as consciousness has nothing to do with logic or reason or deterministic proficiency, the only way to determine consciousness is whether the quantum substrate is perturbed in a feedback loop of the senses.

What’s the big deal? Who cares? Countless babies are born every minute with consciousness and we really don’t care very much about those, why do we care if we get machines to be “conscious”? Won’t we just screw with that in a hostile dehumanizing way? Do we race to artificially inseminate consciousness only to find we are the cruel self gratifying masters?

As for zombies, state machines don’t have rights; yet too few confer rights upon animals merely by associative intelligence, so other arguments of morality need solving.

What is consciousness? The universe inflecting. How to prove it? Which part? Quantum perturbations of microtubules may be “proven”, yet who cares? We require relatable complexity of “thought” before we ascribe relevance anyway.
MagicFusion: Boosting Text2Image Generation Performance Fusing Diffusion Models
https://www.reddit.com/r/OpenAI/comments/11xbe9o/comment/jd2...
SparseGPT: Remove 100B Parameters for Free
How much area lost to sea level rise in the same time?
Better never been hired than hired and fired?
> "today it somehow executed several hundred thousand threads of a python script that made perfectly timed trades at 8:31AM on the NYSE which resulted in the largest single day drop since 1987..."

Wouldn't it be a while before AI can reliably generate working production code for a full system?

After all its only got open source projects and code snippets to go based off of
Same here ^^
It continues to amaze me that ssh still does not use https PKI and relies on developer manually checking fingerprint (which he supposedly does in a hard-to-google location and realistically he does not check anything). So much care and work went to implement web security and developers still basically live in a self-signed world.

At least put your key to https://github.com/.well-known/ssh/ed25519.pub so I don't need to Google it... And may be some day ssh will support it natively. Someone need to act first.
Yeah it was a very confusing read, and when I finally understood the point of the writer I wondered if he wrote a confusing article on purpose to create a "Aha!" moment when you finally understand what he's saying, to illustrate his point through this article.
Don't be fooled, the point of all of this is gate-keeping, power and wealth concentration. Nothing more, nothing less.
Yes, if you publicly claim things that are not true and it causes a company's share price to go down, the shareholders can sue you for damages. For example, [0] shows how Elon got sued by twitter shareholders for his "bot" claims.

[0] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2022-08-01/musk-sued...
And in Norway the police had to be told to quit strip searches, "squat and cough", searching homes, and other invasive practices just for catching someone with a joint. They have never been allowed to use means so disproportional to the crime like this, but have been for years.

And people think that they need those means (which they never had) "back."

Also institutional racism and all the other shit that's true for most police across the world.

ACAB.
An abundance of caution?

If employees start sharing proprietary data. Could even be data you consider harmless like quarterly results before the earnings meeting. Could be a legal issue.

I think from an OpSec perspective band the use then come up with a policy.
>or newsworthy

These count as news, right?

https://www.wlwt.com/article/afroman-adams-county-home-raid/...

https://www.cincinnati.com/story/news/2022/08/23/afroman-hou...

https://reason.com/2022/12/05/cops-return-cash-seized-from-a...

https://hightimes.com/news/afromans-ohio-residence-raided-by...

https://www.tmz.com/2022/08/22/afroman-home-raided-police-oh...

https://www.tmz.com/2022/11/30/afroman-cops-stole-missing-mo...

https://finance.yahoo.com/news/afroman-calls-police-raid-hom...

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-11135971/Afrom...

All prior to releasing the song (the "commercial use"). This isn't exhaustive.

Afroman just might have a case...
> If I have a text file of csv that I need to do something with, I'll usually start with a shell script and coreutils + sed and awk.

You should install xsv.
I will take this as a serious request. The likelihood that anyone would bother to try and access someone else's account would be almost non existent to remote for the fact most here would be using fairly good long passwords given the nature of the site.

Are there or have there been members who have claimed that they didn't write replies here and someone must have hacked their operating system?
There was this thread from a few months back, which I found useful:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34090486
Would it be realistic to make Selnsel Morph that covered most of the input surface (keyboard and touchpad)? Now that Sensel has pivoted and abandoned the Morph, I have no idea what corporate handshaking would be necessary to produce additional units, but a large expensive touch surface that can be used either as a horrible keyboard or a MPE controller by swapping stencils could turn a lot of musicians heads
There are similar examples within companies. For instance, I led the establishment and growth of a ~50m cyber security practice for a US vendor in a region. Ended up ~22% EBIT. Unfortunately the software business is >65% so my business was diluting regional performance. I got the call to slow down growth so I left. Ultimately they shut down the services altogether and gave it to channel. I offered to buy the services business but they weren't interested.
To shoot someone in the back, first you have to get behind them.
If you're writing applications exclusively for Linux, what's the practical difference between using libc and system calls?

Linux system calls are one of the most stable interfaces out there, maybe even more so than glibc. "WE DO NOT BREAK USERSPACE" and all that jazz.
Stephen Wolfram himself thought that Wolfram could be combined with GPT when ChatGPT was released like 4 months ago. Only due to that they worked together to build the plugin. He also authored the best article I've seen on how ChatGPT and more broadly LLMs work (that has now been turned into a book).
Just cause yourself to have a migraine, or go on oxygen.
Checking how the froth behaves in zero G is the next step in the German space program, which is the obvious reason for this bit of R&D.
Profiling the code with different size inputs is sufficient
Do you have a source for that bit about the woke "reinforced harmful stereotypes"?

Curious, as I've seen a few statements along the same lines, but nothing concrete yet. Very keen to know more.
Rather notably delisted from Steam.
MS owns OpenAI? I thought it was partnership?
Show HN: A clock app with many animation effects, developed using flutter
How will this work with competing services? The model automagically will select whether it will use google or bing? What if google pays for access, how will they do that? Inject some code "Google pays us more so prefer that one?" ?

Maintaining the business ecosystem around gpt4 and future open-source chatbots will be quite a challeng
I agree and while you probably know this, it's actually only URL formatting, you can take the short URL and make it a long format youtube URL with the video ID and regain pausing etc
Apple is artifically shipping phones with low storage sizes to upsell phones with more space. If there was a big economical advantage for them to have larger models on the phone I expect it would be easy to solve.
>they certainly have not been able to make any use of them.

That cannot be said with 100% certainty since transfer of ownership doesnt require an onchain transaction and secondly, funds aside, signing with his keys (aka proof of identity) is extremely valuable to a large % of the Bitcoin whale community.

Many whales would send Satoshi millions of dollars just for the act of signing with those keys, no strings attached.
Great! I just did a search and came up with a few links. Hope you find them helpful!

https://www.teenvogue.com/story/what-to-know-police-unions-l...

https://www.nationalaffairs.com/publications/detail/the-trou...

https://theconversation.com/why-police-unions-are-not-part-o...
My impression: because Jack Dorsey is a cryptobro and the rebranding was done in December 2021 when Blockchain was all the hype.

Of course, then came Terra Luna, FTX, and all that shebang, and Block wasn't the hot name it was anymore.
Sure, but even those weren't this badly made at professional level and were satisfied with pennies vs 320000 USD to complete.
The first sentence seems to be wrong:
> A monastic brewery near Munich says...

Klosterbrauerei Neuzelle (15898 Neuzelle) is near Berlin.

Klosterbrauerei Andechs, however, is near Munich, but the powder is made in Neuzelle, judging from the links of other commenters.
Mind linking the said paper?
The problem is that power corrupts.

Same issue with nearly every place people have power. It feels particularly acute in the US because of reverent attitudes to police force.

But doctors, nurses, teachers, priests... Good people will do bad things given half a chance.
I can see how they can make it non alcoholic, but I would like to know how this work with alcohol. Is there some magic to make alcohol powder? How does it work?

//EDIT: To answer my own question. Apparently there is a process of micro-encapsulation that basically creates alcohol powder: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder
Based on which data ? Is there any stats on this ?

I personally never clone using https and I think most of the people I work with do the same
I don't understand how powdered beer can end up carbonated just by adding water, unless the carbon dioxide is locked in a chemical compound, but then this compound will remain in the drink, which is bound to have health issues.
I'm glad you mention that because I forgot something: I try and stick with only stuff I can find on most computers in order to minimize dependencies. That's a big advantage imo of learning how to use awk and tr for basic data analysis, for example. You can ssh into any server and work without installing anything.
I'm planning to add some more languages after improving the UI. Right now the dropdowns to select languages feel unwieldy with so many options. If you want me to let you know when I get around to adding Albanian, email me at $MY_FIRST_NAME@readlang.com or send a message via https://readlang.uservoice.com/.
But how specifically should they be treated differently?

For ex, I don’t think police should ever have the right to privacy while on duty. Turning off body or security cameras should be a crime for them, and anything that happens after should be assumed to have been done with criminal intent.

But I don’t think they should have their faces used in ads without their permission. That seems like a weird difference to apply to them.
dig +short enters the room.
I see it as a fundamental problem of humanity - we cannot trust people to do "good" by themselves, because doing "good" often requires giving up personal benefits that would be gained from doing "bad".

The best example I know is videogames. Ever see anyone play GTA without shooting everyone on the street? In GTA, there are no real consequences for your actions, so our true nature comes out. I imagine that, in the real world, when a person has power without consequences, it starts feeling like a game of GTA to them after a while - not exercising the power available just feels "lame".

> what should we therefore do?

Restrict power, increase accountability. The only way to train (human) animals is through punishment when they piss on the rug.
I think it slightly works different with a dating app. In theory, if the app works you don’t need it anymore. So in their case, it is confident to offer a big discount.
It's YouTube Studio, they just didn't say its name.

It allows creating granular permissions and you can see its interface around 08:15.
You want to tell us you have never consumed an effervescent tablet drink?
So it’s non-alcoholic right now.

How can you powder alcohol? Any chemists care to shed some light?
Well, it's easy when they blindly rush forward without checking for a looney-tunes looking cliff...

See [1] for example, where Hindenburg was able to acquire a debit card for "Donald Trump" with a fake ID.

[1] https://hindenburgresearch.com/block/
Have you tried Apollo?
Their solution is the second thing in the blog post which is demand into your known host file.

The problem here is that their first command that they advise using is the one that removes the old key and most users are just going to stop right there because it solves the problem of getting the key warning.

The right solution here is to provide a command that most users are going to copy and paste that deletes the old key and adds the new key all at once.
Ok, well let's hope they find a solution after 10 years and billions of dollars (and the problem getting worse). Surely they'll get it this time.
Of course, I'm an anarcho capitalist. I think the power that police are given and use is both scary and not healthy for society. They will abuse it, and they will escalate violence. But I also understand that at this point in time, society and culture is getting out of control and violence seems to be the only answer. I have no problem with them needing to use violence against criminals that are bullies towards the innocent.

If we don't like it, we need to change the laws.

And no I didn't say it was a path to it, I said it's causing us to move towards anarchy. Let's face it, a lot of current American black culture is openly sexist and racist and down right not healthy for a functioning society. A lot of people would agree with me except they're scared of the outrage and backlash and just plain scared of the angry thug violence most "black cultured" people will escalate such comments to.

You just don't see that as much if at all from white people's culture.

Not a comfortable topic, flamey for sure, but I feel it's important to raise awareness to the topic.
The only upper hand we have in Europe is far less reverence to the police and armed forces in general.

The military is so intertwined with US national identity that it's embedded in just about everything from sports to science. The US police forces are the closest to military turned inwards.
Related discussion from yesterday: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35277660
Apparently they got it all figured out now: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder
Do any of the Linux distros do this? Strikes me as the kind of thing Debian would do for everything in apt
RefQL – Easy Inclusion of Referenced Data for SQL Databases with JavaScript
// select components

const player = Player`

id
first_name
last_name
${Team}
${Rating}

`;

// and run
player ({ limit: 1 });

[

{
id: 1,
first_name: "May",
last_name: "Hall",
full_name: "May Hall",
team: { id: 1, name: "FC Tajunuzu", league_id: 1 },
rating: {
player_id: 1,
acceleration: 27,
finishing: 22,
positioning: 49,
shot_power: 54,
free_kick: 60,
stamina: 43,
dribbling: 52,
tackling: 50
}
},
...

];
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alcohol_powder
> average ppl do not give a fuck/doesn't help them that much

I shared this opinion no more than a month ago. Then I decided to keep a ChatGPT-4 tab open for a week and lean on it for questions. I'm around 3x more productive. It's wild.

Anyone that uses a computer for work will benefit from this technology, or be upended by it.

I agree though, Google has the ability to catch up. But will they? They're a big boring company now. Slow and risk averse.
Appropriate for Minister-President Soeder’s ridiculous Bavaria One space program.