skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Idk, I really don't understand the surprised tone of all the comments. It seems very much like a cognitive distortion to believe that somewhere in financial industry there are clever and professional people doing things in a very adult and responsible way. Especially not texting about committing million dollar crimes (or just moving millions legally) in the same language as discussing memes in Discord with friends.

If you believe people must be responsible and professional just because they handle a lot of money, it's your problem, not theirs.
Disclaimer: I'm a Googler but I don't work anywhere near this stuff, and this is just my own personal opinion.

In my mind, Drive isn't a file sharing / storage system, but rather a document sharing / storage system. If you want to store large numbers of files, you should use Cloud Storage, which can handle that. Drive is the cloud equivalent of LAN shared folders - you know those janky NFS and SMB shares that were always a giant headache because of permissions and other nonsense? That's what Drive is trying to be.

Seems like they could do it without the jankiness, though.
I was not planing to move there, maybe just visit someday.

But I am curious where this is going …
This did not work for me at all. I tried my own voice and it just made me sound like a young American instead of my actual Irish accent. I almost sounded like Microsoft Sam in both samples.
One criticism I have regarding this article is the intended audience surely does not need a detailed explanation of what an abstraction is (complete with dog, golden retriever and chihuahua examples).
yes? why do you assume I'm talking out of my ass here lol.

It's your responsibility to not let your negative experiences poison your soul. I have never personally filtered out short men but I've also seen enough of them with this nasty incel-lite attitude about why no one wants to date them that I understand why someone would.
Sorry to hear. Hope your kids enjoy his recording.

But yes, it would be weird to generate more stuff spoken by your father by using this technology. And beyond that, what's even the point? It's not your dad.
In my experience, bing accuracy mode and phind are very usable, certainly not perfect but mucht better than Bard.
Good point! chatGPT explained it thusly:

"The Box-Muller transform generates two normally distributed random numbers, z0 and z1, using the two uniformly distributed random numbers u1 and u2. However, only z0 is used in the provided function to create the random number within the given range. If you want to additionally supply z1 in the output, you can." It then provides the modified code.
Now that there's plug-in support, this kind of request will actually be feasible soon.
When you're at the buffet, disapproval and pickiness is cheap and easy.
Greenland ice sheet is close to a melting point of no return
Having really good tracing/observability on an explicit state machine like Xstate would be such a great superpower.
Kind of a weird set of examples to describe the concept of an abstraction at all... I hate contrived examples. It was my least favorite part of all of my coursework, GenEds included.
> Good thing sufficiently decentralized exchanges continue to serve US customers without interference from the government

As they should be. If they aren't laundering money for Russian criminals and designated terrorist organizations.

FinCEN seems to be on top of working to segregate compliant from non-compliant decentralized exchanges, as well as the people using and developing them.
grok means 'to come to understand' as in to learn.

So if your developers can't learn this stuff...
Mostly laughing rather than offended :D
My Personal Opinion.

If you can do real life tasks like balancing a checkbook or figuring out how to split a restaurant bill, you probably know enough math to be a pretty good or even elite programmer, except for specializations like working on 3D graphics.

Most programmers aren't inventing new calculus concepts from scratch as part of their problem-solving. Most are doing fairly simple order of operations (PEMDAS) types of math problems and glueing CRUD APIs together. The level of math required for that can be done by a solid middle-schooler.
If/when it is a generally capable intelligence it very much does work that way. That's how it worked with humans. We saw that stuff needed to work at scale and created something to achieve that.
Also, thank you. It is much appreciated:)
> Decent Espresso showed us that boiler machines for home use are a dead end.

Do you mean single boiler machines? Many home machines have no problem switching because they just use two boilers, one for brewing and one for steaming.
That's not a good solution for... almost anybody. Most people would rather have the remote server recode, they would rather not have to open ports (with some connections you just can't), they would rather not expose their IP addresses, etc.

I can see your point but it has nothing to do with what platforms like Twitch are for.
Is "left-pad style situation" (aka the Azer/Kik/NPM drama) the formal name for this class/type/definition of system fragility? What would this be an example of, formally, in math or systems design or whatever?

The reason I ask, is that I see it literally all the time, sometimes as a design goal, which drives me absolutely up the wall. "Let's make a centralized repository (CIR) of all acronyms, and then everyone can reference the CIR". Ah yes, sure, great idea and the first time someone changes Air Conditioning to Alternating Current ALL YOUR DOCUMENTS CHANGE[1].

If "left-pad style" has a formal name, I might be able to offer a counter-argument in the form of math.

[1] Now, obviously, the CIR problem does have a solution, I'm aware of that, but it's not a solution that lies in the domain of the document markup - it's a change process problem, which is in another domain, which means extra eyeballs and red tape. So I guess the broad definition, I am looking for, is what is wrong with these sorts of functionalities that break out of their domain like this? What do you call that?
I'm pretty sure that most women are just not attracted to men even moderately shorter than themselves but they're too prideful to admit it so we get stuff like what you're saying and 'I want to date a guy I can wear heels around.'

Most people would rather just hear 'I'm not attracted to you because of an immutable physical characteristic' than some wishy-washy and nebulous dig on their personality.
Sure but could you not just write a different search controller to handle the needs of a more specific search? I have written many search controllers with, Meilisearch for example, that could handle myriad constraints and parameters. What makes this so hard that you need to abstract it out to a completely new app?

I am just struggling to find a need to have a separate app, I guess UI/UX perhaps but I still echo the same fear as the parent commenter. I am sure Apple has the money to support it, and while I love classical music, I am not downloading another app just to consume it.
This is essentially why I don't order grocery store delivery via the internet. I tried it a couple times, and when the item I wanted was out of stock, they reasonably wouldn't pick a substitute. I think there were some options to specify a substitute, but it's just too much work to make a list and then make an alternative list for every item that isn't there. So I end up going myself and making those decisions ad hoc, which the store picker can't/won't.
Maybe Google cloud using NTFS disks (Maximum number of files on disk: 4,294,967,295)? :))
In wonder how hard they tried, really. Feels like they more or less took the money and called it quits
You can write explicit types in OCaml, it's actually quite smooth. Over the years my style has evolved towards that and now I almost always write at least the return type when I write a function!
Isn't that first one Home/iHome/HomeKit whatever you wanna call it? If your lock doesn't support HomeKit there's a good chance Homebridge does.
> JSON isn't great, but it's certainly better than YAML.

This is the first time I've ever seen someone say this. Why do you think it's better?
Sheesh, and he wasn't even running for president or something.
> Users deploy racial filters sparingly. For example, black women pass through 36% of other users’ filters, compared with 44% for women of other races. This gap is similar to the effect of one inch of height for men. However, just 24% of black women are liked as prospects, versus 37% for non-black women—an impact as great as 11 inches of male height.

I need to figure out if this dataset is available somewhere for analysis because an equivalence of 11 inches of height is somewhat shocking to me. It's a much bigger effect size than I expected, but maybe that just means I have to update my worldview. It may also have to do with the demographics of the daters interested in women using the League app.

Also, if I'm reading the first graph correctly, the penalty at the filtering stage for being a women 5'6"-5'7" or taller is worse than being a man between 5'2" - 5'3". Just not what I expected.
TorToiSe Text to Speech
In the past three years Coinbase has become one of the most aggressive lobbyists and corporate donors in DC and they're predominantly supporting Republicans.

What did they expect would happen when the other guys are in power?
> when it comes to the government violating financial privacy

Yes, a good way to delineate pragmatic from extreme views on privacy are when they find no exceptions for designated terrorist organizations and Russian criminals.
Url: https://github.com/casey/just
The potential for scamming is limitless with this. Elderly people were vulnerable to phone calls from their "relatives" before when the voices didn't even sound that close. Can you imagine what the hit rate is going to be on these scams when the voices are nearly identical to the voice of their relative? Also, at some point I expect that even answering the phone and saying "Hello" will be enough for some AI model to zero-shot clone your voice with enough fidelity to pass to most people. Tech like this is going to absolutely destroy what little remains of voice conversations over phones.
Setting up TOTP on an iPhone. I had no idea it could do this.

https://support.apple.com/en-ca/guide/iphone/ipha6173c19f/io...
You can't download anything without 3PC. It's the only Google service set up that way, which isn't a coincidence. Drive is essentially a loss leader to protect their cash cow.
Online dating is incredibly superficial by design, so it is no wonder that those who use it do so in superficial ways. Even with the best of intentions the platform itself will push them in that direction.

I've long since sworn them off. Like social media, they present a case for being useful but to the extent they were it is greatly outpaced by the damage they do to people and society.
Had the pleasure of working with XState at my last role. Where I found it greatly shined was being able to jump into a UI/machine I have never worked on before and contribute almost immediately after digesting the machine's definition
That would be 5 billion, not 5 million
"It's always the good ole days for someone" is a little phrase I'm going to try to remember and think of from time to time. Thank you for this :-)
The Hi-matic was not a top-of-the-line pro camera like a Nikon or Hasselblad, but it was not a cheap toy camera. It was a good-quality rangefinder with a decent lens and new features like the auto exposure.
Couldn't agree more with your comment. We are working on counter measures like manual verification of voice, a classifier to detect cloned speech, etc. As of now we have auto moderation in place that detects and blocks hate/harmful speech.
1.: It's the first time I'm seeing a chatbot who could easily replace the human layer.

Chatgpt understands tons of languages.

So I highly prefer to write things up like "you can change a username by going to this ui and click this and than that".

Or anything in-between.

Even if chatgpt only takes care of translating and creating a proper support ticket.

2.: Text understanding. I have plenty of tasks were a human would need to do things for me like "pull out all features of this building and make a list out of it" before I can verify it.

3.: I can already see the use case of fine-tuning my own agent with my own data. Now it's actually worth it to write proper documentation or architecture decision records. Basically doing brain dump because after I can just ask it things like "why do we use angular?" "Because you tried out react and didn't like it"
If Apple password manager is anywhere as well thought out as their 2FA for Apple TV then I don't want to come next to it within 10 light years.

Every time it asked me to either "confirm on your iPad" (I have 3 of those around the house) or "confirm on your iPhone" (I have 0 of those) I was ready to hurl shit. SMS option buried in some dark pattern, of course.

If these companies want to encroach in the secrets management space they really need to hire more qa and test more than a single happy path. The number of failure modes in these systems is astonishing for the billions of dollars these companies can throw at the problem.
> Just keep your popcorn warm.

Actual LOL on that one.
Show HN: Alceos – AI Knowledge Base for Your Data
Hi HN,

I wanted to show you Alceos, an interactive knowledge base that makes it easy to get AI to work with your data.

Demo: https://youtu.be/EcjxFN_SWbg

Basically, you can upload documents and then you have access to all the information of your documents at your fingertips.

There is a Q&A tool to answer questions across your entire knowledge base and an AI assistant built-in, that will only rely on your knowledge base for its facts. Think of it like a Bing Chat but that will search the documents you have in your knowledge base instead of the web.

Tech details: To build the knowledge base, we use a combination of embeddings, summarizing and pre-processing to allow the ability to have full context of what is in a given document (say 40+ pages) and conditional prompting depending what the document is (ex: an excel file will be processed a bit differently than a word/pdf file). For the AI assistant, it’s a mix a clever prompting, using the Q&A tool when in need of information and “self-reinforcement” / “grounding” to keep it on the rails.

In the future, I want to give more tools to the assistant (improved math, task automation, internet access) and an API to make it easy to add/update your knowledge base or integrate knowledge-augmented models into products easily. Also, with LLMs having their Stable Diffusion moment, I think in the next few months we’ll be able to have a self-host version of the product which will be very exciting.

I’d love to get some feedback (on the features, pricing, use cases, etc.) or answer any questions you may have!

Cheers,

Iliane
I'd say that even more than the low-IQ loudspeaker, social media launders the opinions of the young. I was a very precocious writer and rhetorician with little understanding of the real world. My apologies to anyone who fell into the trap of taking my my stupid opinions seriously.
> what happens if there's an error in your app? How do you identify sensitive data that needs to be handled differently to "basic" data?

Nothing happens, and you don't. That's what I meant by "bad software". I'm reminded of a story Clay Shirky told about AT&T analysts from the mid-90s trying to understand the web hosting business[0]:

> The ATT guys had correctly understood that the income from $20-a-month customers wouldn’t pay for good web hosting. What they hadn’t understood, were in fact professionally incapable of understanding, was that the industry solution, circa 1996, was to offer hosting that wasn’t very good. This, for the ATT guys, wasn’t depressing so much as confusing... For a century, ATT’s culture had prized - insisted on - quality of service; they ran their own power grid to keep the dial-tone humming during blackouts. ATT, like most organizations, could not be good at the thing it was good at and good at the opposite thing at the same time. The web hosting business, because it followed the “Simplicity first, quality later” model, didn’t just present a new market, it required new cultural imperatives.

0: https://gwern.net/doc/economics/2010-04-01-shirky-thecollaps... (shirky's old site has been down for some time)
At some point we also didn't know what a terminal was, how to type, or how to read. That doesn't mean they aren't baseline expectations for a software developer.
Many use some rsync-like tools to use gdrive as a flat backup system. Perfectly fine use case. You would be over a million as a single user. Some account have thousands of users.

See some comments on the tracker, some orgs have a multi sites set up across an entire nation. I wouldn't be surprised if 10k+ volunteers at some NGOs are on that sort of plan and use it as their personal storage solution on top of all the things they sync for document counts heavy work.
You can run the Weather app stand-alone & pin it to your Taskbar or Start Menu:

Windows Key > weather
That's true; but not really an issue, IMHO. If I am really keen for a one-liner, then (G)awk. [edited]
GPT-4 for Coding: 16 Observations and Tips
A really decent self-hosted alternative to Terraform Cloud without needing to spin up another app is to just set it up in a pipeline within GitLab.

https://docs.gitlab.com/ee/user/infrastructure/iac/
The liability risk for any kind of birth control is astronomical. I used to see a lot of TV when I worked out at the gym and I think the shortest gap between "saw the first ad for the product" and "saw a first ad for a liability lawsuit around the product" was two weeks for the birth control pill Yaz.
"you have the learn new syntax" is a really weird argument. Every approach, be it Vue, Svelte or React introduces a new alien syntax. In my personal opinion React approach is the most alien.

React's "it's just Javascript" mantra is a manipulation that only gullible folks will fall for: you can't just add a bunch of stuff to Javascript and then claim "it's just Javascript". If I throw a piece of steak in your coffee, you won't consider it "just coffee" anymore. And certainly you can't claim you're still a vegetarian after consuming that "cup of coffee".

I personally find it much harder to reason about the weird

condition && <element>

syntax, compared to perfectly reasonable

{#if condition}
<element>
{/if}

The latter so readable that it can even be understood by a non-engineer. The "new syntax" is as close to natural language as it gets.

Understanding the final layout is much harder in React.

That said, custom template syntax has indentation issue (you typically want indent both HTML elements and custom template tags, so anything inside conditions/loops has double indentation), so I actually think Vue template syntax (<element v-if="condition">) offers the best tradeoffs.

But regardless, at least when I'm looking at all 3 options, I see their tradeoffs and making an informed choice. React folks typically fail to even understand that there are tradeoffs. Even if you buy the "it's just Javascript" mantra, Javascript was never a good option represent a document layout.
I mean no one is forcing him to show up to court. if he doesn’t come its a defacto win for the CFTC This will lead to stronger enforcement of US entities interactions with binance or he shows and settle and moves on. The Eu, China, etc… can do the same. Also as stated by cz as per the filing 20-30% of traffic comes from the US that enough grounds for action.
>Literal terrorist financing.

No one from HSBC went to jail, either.
Like all vices.
We do - https://foundation.namespace.so/docs. Some feature of "Namespace" are kind of similar to Ergomake, but we use own format with CUE instead of docker-compose. Here is comparison to docker-compose - https://namespace.so/blog/from-docker-compose-to-namespace.
I'm surprised it knows how to count that low.
Tokyo Signs
any thoughts on a custom DSL for defining and verifying abstract state machines and then machinery for generators for different languages/libraries/environments/visualizations?
I strongly doubt seniority was considered (neither from the legal perspective nor based on what I onserved myself), so idk what the grandparent is talking about.

Anecdata: out of 3 people laid off on my team, all 3 were mid-level engineers. The only senior engineer on the team wasn't affected. The other two people remaining on the team (which includes me) are also mid-level engineers.

As far as I can see, the layoffs were randomized on individual level, but more targeted on the higher level. E.g., "division ABC of org XYZ could use a cut, let's randomly pick N people from this group of M teams". That's just a speculation though.
I only have my unreliable memory to say, but on a 486DX/33 I recall play Doom 2 at least on the second-from-top view size without noticeable lag. But what sound card did you have? In the late 90s hardware manufacturers made budget cards with processing being done in software rather than dedicated chips. If you had one of those it may have been too much for a 486 to handle. Also probably the cause of your modem problems, as "soft modems" were notorious for being unreliable.

Obviously these cards were meant for use in Pentiums with their extra processing power. But some stingy integrators coughPackardBellcough would slap together the lowest cost components without regard to if it'd actually work properly.
Online dating is hard.

One hand you have the: Standards and practices of the site you have their standards of your preferences. I.e. Don't like trans people and have bad/ignorant opinions or stances about them? You could get easily removed and restricted from the site. (That is not my stance.. but it causes people to hide what their preferences are and it causes you bad experiences with people who you don't click with) In Chicago and a trumper? You're going to have a bad time stating your preference/likewise for the opposite in the biblebelt.

Another: You have encourage groups of people who put little effort or intent in maintaining a profile

Another: You have to know what your audience who you don't know yet wants and how they want to be approached.

Another: Scammers not taken care of quickly.

Online dating is a garbage place.
We're currently building something that sounds superficially similar, would you be interested in having a chat?
What’s fun is getting the perspective from a 5'10" woman who uses dating apps.

Average woman in the US is 5'4", and if a guy pads their 5'9" to 6'0", she might not notice unless she is specifically paying attention. However, to the 5'10" woman, there’s a big perceptual difference between talking to someone who’s 2" taller than you and someone who is 1" shorter than you, and it’s not something you even pretend to not notice. (I was a bit shocked to learn that some 5'9" men had the audacity to put 6'0" on dating profiles. Like, 5'9" is average. It’s not even short, to begin with.)
This is a standard way to grant API access in literally every piece of software that's provided an API access I've ever used in the last 5-10 years. I'm not sure what informs such paranoia.
Probably the problem that persists in the modern day, because it remains relevant.