skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We should also take practical steps to increase your chances of survival, which, if someone says this to you:

- Keep an eye on their hands.

- Attempt to de-escalate the person.

- If they brandish a weapon in extreme close proximity to yourself, use both your hands to firmly grab onto the hand/wrist that's holding the weapon and extend your arms fully (using your skeleton to maintain that distance and provide added strength). Your focus should be on controlling that hand so they don't stab or shoot you. Yes, you may incur injury regardless, this is what's colloquially known as a "shit sandwich".

- Increase distance and vacate the area as soon as possible. If they have a gun, run in a zig zag pattern and seek cover (blocks bullets) or concealment (hides you, but doesn't stop bullets).

- Once you are safe, then report the incident to law enforcement (if they'll do anything).
Do you think I can get something like this for windows or libinput/wayland?
They don't. The man working on the government base did and then released it into a chat room that the teenager was a part of.
>>What happened in the world of atoms?

Regulatory regimentation by centralized authorities. Just one of many examples: 5 percent of occupations required a license in 1950. Today, around 30 percent.

In every sector, professional and industry groups have become adept at locking down the market by manufacturing consent for regulatory restrictions. See what the Hotel Lobby did to stem the disruptive potential of Airbnb:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/16/technology/inside-the-hot...

In the housing market, the effect of mounting regulatory regimentation resulted in the US having an estimated 36 percent less GDP growth between 1964 and 2009:

https://www.aeaweb.org/articles?id=10.1257/mac.20170388
An, with you there. To the extent Apple claimed this policy would result in the total cessation of all cobalt mining, they were wrong to do so. It is merely a reduction in demand for newly mined cobalt, not a complete elimination across the entire economy.
Their words, apparently
Oh, that’s funny.
It’s impossible to reason with anyone from SF who thinks the city isn’t that bad. Reality is most large cities are absolute trash now. But at least where i live i can talk with people who aren’t living in some reality distortion field
I would say Popehat's law of goats applies: even if you say you're only fucking goats ironically, you're still a goatfucker.
Because it's not intentional?
Change any voice to any voice in audio or video
Hi,

We recently released a universal voice conversion app (think of it as a deep fake for audio). You can replace speaker identity in audio or video with any other speaker. You can select a target speaker from the library or upload an example of the target speaker's voice to use. Possible uses: sending voice messages by some other speaker, changing voice in the video clips before uploading them to social media, etc. Technology is not exactly there yet; generated audio resembles the target speaker but is still halfway to being convincing/deceiving. That's why we release it as a fun app. But you can check with it where the technology is going.
My first time in SOMA I had a homeless guy almost piss on my shoes followed by another guy shadow-stabbing with a real knife and pointing at me. Let's call it a mulligan.
This is great to see, congrats to the Meta team!

It might be lost to history, but Keybase has had Key Transparency running in production since 2014:

https://keybase.io/_/api/1.0/merkle/root.json?seqno=799
You must think you’re quite clever with that slight of hand comparing homicides in SF with other cities when people are talking about crime in general.
Think of all the extra money they can make replacing batteries more frequently!
So if anybody else got excited about multi-tenant SSO but was wondering how to implement it, the docs page is here https://supabase.com/docs/guides/auth/sso/auth-sso-saml.

I'm super excited because as a newcomer to needing to implement that feature, other SaaSes like auth0 were complicated and overwhelmed me.

Since we have Supabase employees here, one thing that isn't clear to me is if OIDC based SSO is supported, or will be?
Words precede actions.
as well as many videos youtube slapped their ads on top of.
Some more links. Bellingcat broke the Discord server story 5 days ago[1]. The Washington Post has a stunning story, including barely obscured video (unaltered voice) from a teenager who was active in the group and considers himself a good friend of the leaker[2]. The Guardian story cites and quotes extensively from the WP story, so that should be considered the original source, but does add more context. Emptywheel (who has been pretty consistently excellent when it comes to leaks and the like) has more analysis[3].

[1]: https://www.bellingcat.com/news/2023/04/09/from-discord-to-4...

[2]: https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2023/04/12/discord...

[3]: https://www.emptywheel.net/2023/04/13/bear-versus-pig-on-the...
Yes plus when you call a support desk, if the "person" on the phone is not a real person, the first words said is "You are talking with an AI, not a person."

I believe the only reason for Commercial Orgs are looking at ChatGPT is to eventually replace all support people with some kind of AI.
Out of curiosity, how does one avoid getting knifed by a junkie in the alleyway?
Now you are switching around the argument. Of course you could replace coal with nuclear power. But that wasn't what you are lying about. Your lie is that nuclear is getting replaced 1:1 with coal power. Not the same thing.
Yikes - hopefully one of the mutant insects doesn’t escape. Having an insect live 20% longer as a species could significantly increase their dominance.
PgBouncer is useful, important, and fraught with peril
Which “tough” practices do police need access to? Extrajudicial beatings and murder? Torture? Tell us please, don’t hide behind euphemism.
My assessment as a 51 year old native Floridian is that, "a lot of retirees who bought beach houses will be disappointed" is fundamental to the problem. Our economy is based on 30-year financial instruments. Largely nobody is incentivized to think ahead further than 30 years, especially retirees.

I am astounded when I see coastal properties sold knowing that they will be untenable in the long term.
Yeah for work events like safe work environment. Not for fixing a police system.
I quickly read this article. Two things stood out: the big-O complexity discussion and the fact that embeddings get really complicated for large datasets like 100M Spotify songs.

I'm more curious about embeddings for small datasets. For example, if you have a very small set of information, say the transcript from a meeting, can you then run a very context specific set of generated embeddings against it and generally not worry about the performance issues? It seems like these things are important only when doing massive scale embeddings and massive scale of data.

Am I wrong about the implications of all this? And the takeaway is that postgres is probably fine for all usage like that, rather than a specialist database.
> There's just no way, in real life, for Facebook to add what you're describing to one of the most prominent messaging apps in the world without somebody noticing.

That assumes somebody is digging through each update and the thousands of classes. FFS the OG Facebook app was already blowing past the limits of Android in 2013 [1], and the current Whatsapp app isn't much better - just look at the current APK file:

2023-04-12 11:38:58 ..... 2578508 1171345 classes.dex
2023-04-12 11:39:04 ..... 13312588 6020223 classes2.dex
2023-04-12 11:39:08 ..... 7671448 3310145 classes3.dex
2023-04-12 11:39:08 ..... 2118352 945166 classes4.dex

25MB of already compressed Dalvik code, probably double that if you restore it to Java class files and triple to quadruple that in Java source files. It's impossible to audit that there is no routine pushing keys to, say, the usual analytics backend they use - and to make it worse, according to APKMirror, they push updates every few days [2].

Although my biggest question is... it's a fucking messenger app. Why does it produce a larger binary content than a full-blown Linux kernel?!

[1] https://engineering.fb.com/2013/03/04/android/under-the-hood...

[2] https://www.apkmirror.com/uploads/?appcategory=whatsapp
That's clearly not enough. Tech executives are doing too many drugs and it's leading to this kind of behavior, it's a cultural problem. They need fewer broken families and more time spent in church. And these rotten ones they need to be under constant watch by strict, controlling wardens.
Perhaps you meant to reply to a different comment. I was responding to the previous commenter's apparent attempt to explain-away antisemitic slurs as mere "be[ing] edgy" rather than being indicative of antisemitic belief, not trying to specifically nail down this alleged leaker's specific political affiliations.
I didn't like the direction of this comment. All cities are good and bad in their own way for the people that live there.
Regardless of the idea or the technology, the questions you have to answer first are:

1. Are you solving a real problem? How do you know it’s a problem?

2. Does your potential customer exist? How many are there? How much would each of them spend to solve their problem? Where are they—-and are they easily reached?

3. Is the solution and the business expense worth it (based on the size of the market and the potential revenue)?

4. Is your idea easily disrupted by another technology or business with a larger reach our established brand?
A few reasons:

- "Infinite" detail, like models that would be described by curves and others are mathematically absurdly expensive. And when you need your entire frame to be out in 16ms, there really isn't much space to keep both the advancements _and_ new very expensive math. It's done for some things like font rendering (see Slug), but it would be horrible for everything to be done that way.

- All of the tooling is still made around triangles and exporting meshes made out of triangles, because that's how everyone works.

- It's how everyone works because your GPU is good at one thing: triangles. It has dedicated units for that single goal: take triangles, and rasterize them to the screen. So, even if you made a brand new GPU with a Bézier Engine :tm: in there to make it efficient... well you still have to support all of the GPUs that only know how to do triangles, and you're back to doing math to transform these into triangles.

- Even if you do that, surprise, your screens don't do curves either, nor do your framebuffers! They're a bunch of pixels, so you just transferred your aliasing problems from "triangles along a grid don't look good" to "you need to match your curve to your grid", and if your detail becomes small enough, you now also have aliasing there.

- There's nothing that we have in this world that is round and we can't do a convincing job of with triangles. Sure, maybe something that has absurd scale, like a planet you can both see from outer space and up close: that'd be a lot of triangles to make it look smooth at all angles. It would be kind of performance wasting, but you can do it. And techniques like Nanite would actually even fix the problem a little bit.
Especially local government. It’s literally downtown.
>>...doesn't mean you believe in a particular ideology

It sure as hell means that you more than tolerate that "ideology", and are happy to enable and encourage abuse and worse of the targets.

IOW, just because you claim to be doing something "just for the lulz" or "to be edgy", does not get you out of being rigltly judged to be, at best, an asshat
Ok but I wish we could have a database where we DON'T count gangbangers killing other gangbangers. Would probably be much closer.
First thing I thought of was HackerNews.
Seems like you’re moving the goal posts. Previously it was about regulation and monitoring, now it’s about a smoke alarm going off. Let me remind you Google (Nest) still sells a very expensive smoke detector, even if they don’t have a monitoring service to use it with.

Note many alarm companies can still link to it one way or another; in fact I use the nest products with Ring via something that listens for its chirps.

You can also sell alarm service without fire, and vice versa. Or use a third party product whitelabeled, as many do with First smoke alarms.
... by teenagers who inevitably grow up to be racists.

And the gunman was not online at the time, and likely not a teenager.

I don't know why you've decided to be the person defending the art of bigotry in this thread but maybe you should find a more productive use of your time.
what about a van? and there's been plenty of mass stabbings.

focus on getting rid of gangs, your gun murder rate will plummet.

noone seems to care about the 20-60 shootings per day in gun-free Chicago.

all of those criminals don't seem to respect the gun laws...

the only thing that happens when you restrict guns in the US is you take away the ability for law-abiding citizens to defend themselves.
Only if they define "the right thing" as "the thing that makes them the most money". And if they really believe that, then they're even worse people than I thought.
you need to ask better qeustions.

what is the ideal customer?

how would I make money?

how do I reach these customers?
When you can generate close to a million usd a year, keeping it up for 5 formative years doesn't seem that bad. You can coast for the rest of your life on very little work afterwards.
Online dating is traumatizing. It's nearly impossible to meet people in real life due to the gender ratio in my city. I would like to get married/have kids but I don't see that happening in this world/generation.
Probably a huge cost savings to turn off Al those MongoDB nodes.
> using someone’s murder to further your political beliefs is horrible.

Agree that it's gross but we do it all the time, and I think too often it only feels horrible to people when the political beliefs aren't align with one's own. If the loudest voices in this incident had been pushing for increased funding for supportive housing or mental health services, would Joe Eskenazi have written an article titled "Bob Lee deserved better than to be killed — and then co-opted in death"? I kind of doubt it...
This reply is either a troll post or you're severely disconnected from reality.
They don't have to give the technology away. They could sell it or otherwise license it to other manufacturers. Keeping this technology a secret just so they can differentiate their packaging for marketing reasons is just about the most cynical business move they could make.
> I don't think the world would be a better off if the Bezos' and Gates' were to live forever.

But what if Einstein had lived a few more decades?
I'd imagine that in some cases, the distrust of the government is actually a result of working for it (IIRC that's what happened with Snowden)
When Your Boss Is an App
> personalized filter bubble to confirm your pre-existing views

I seek learning through intelligent and insightful rebuttal. HN is a good forum to learn from others directly, and indirectly by reading other people’s threads. I want a forum that does this better, via network effects of judgements about comment quality.

Your comment contains many baseless assumptions about my motivations. Is there irony in that this thread is not on Facebook, that you are attempting to disagree with my point but I am engaging with you, and that your comment likely breaks multiple guidelines? https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
SF out here trying to cosplay gotham
There are some limitations to copyright protection in German law, but each of them is specific. There's no general exemption like fair use.
Would you care to extend your reply, and tell us how you use them? Just like you expect a good candidate to do ;)
The fraction that is generated from coal was relatively stable, even declined a little. It only very recently, like end of last year went up a little again - because of the natural gas transition. But that's still a far cry from "nuclear power is replaced by coal".
Doesn't matter if the car is running or not, it's toast... er, wet toast.
arguably this is a dupe of that post, since the Chronicle link doesn't add anything to the story and mostly links back to that post's Mission Local story for details
Yeah, in our case it was baseball and most of us are fans. So, we all knew what to do and what 'good' looked like. It was still pretty open ended though, which was fun. It was good to see what my coworkers came up with and the different approaches taken.
Recycling cobalt batteries can have environmental impacts if not done properly. The process can result in the emission of pollutants, including greenhouse gases, toxic metals, and hazardous waste. Improper disposal of the waste generated during recycling can also have harmful effects on the environment. Not to mention recycling cobalt batteries requires a significant amount of energy. The process of recovering cobalt from batteries involves crushing, shredding, and melting the battery components, which can consume a lot of energy and contribute to carbon emissions.
Now is a good time to remind folks that you can compress air but not water, so when water makes it into your internal combustion engine's air intake (usually hood level) there will be spectacular mechanical carnage & destruction in short order unless you immediately kill the engine.

Also this guy does hugely entertaining engine teardown videos often featuring water suckage consequences https://www.youtube.com/@I_Do_Cars/videos
What's "100 percent recycled cobalt"?

The cobalt is either recycled (100%), or it's not (0%).

How much of this "100% recycled cobalt" makes up a single battery?

Is it 10%? 1%? 99%?

Is the battery 10% made of 100% recycled cobalt, and 90% made of non-recycled material?

I hate this "100% recycled" wordplay. Any reasonable person would interpret it to mean "the batteries are 100% recycled" which seems to not be the case, given how sly they are being with the description.

Still, kudos to the recycling effort, but don't try to trick me.

It's the same trick nearly every company in the US plays with "made from 100% reclaimed ocean plastic."

Sure, it is made from plastic that 100% was reclaimed from the ocean. But if that plastic only makes up 1% of the item, and the rest is 99% non-recycled plastic, then you're effectively just tricking any individual not paying attention.
Sounds like you trust what a big corporate entity with many arms whose primary purpose is to generate for shareholders
Info is exploding. Hard to keep track of everything. Probably impossible.

I wont be surprised if they actually have some knowledge mgmt model that shows the point above which they cant keep tabs on everything. But its the govt. They are never going to admit that in public.
You'd be surprised what information is released to the public. I'd be willing to bet that the reporter has access to dispatch logs from over-the-air radio [1] and cross-references that with incident reports at [2] and then does a lookup on [3]. Entirely speculation, but it's not implausible.

[1] https://somafm.com/scanner/
[2] https://data.sfgov.org/Public-Safety/Police-Department-Incid...
[3] https://www.sfsheriff.com/find-person-jail
Genuinely curious: how do I know Whatsapp isn't keeping a copy of my private key somewhere?
It is true that it changes the aesthetic a bit, and it is a change rather than a straight upgrade.

But the old rendering pipeline still exists I guess, and the new one look wicked cool.
Ah yea you’re right. San Francisco is actually a wonderful place to raise a family and live a good life where nothing bad happens.
It's not my washer and dryer or my electrical outlet.
I've never felt unsafe in an alleyway in sf. but probably the same as any other city - don't be a dumbass, avoid the alleyways in shady parts of the city, esp at night.
Your comment is exactly the kind of thing I’d like to see a candidate simulate explaining to an enthusiastic, overachieving intern. Is the candidate helpful? Are they toxic? “Explain the the intern” implies a hierarchy imbalance—does that make them rude or patronizing?

All of these are useful signals for a hiring decision. Much more than quibbling about big-O of hash table lookups.
I know the linked article is about making actual money rather than spending VC capital but choosing profit is actually not what most businesspeople with acumen do.

Profits are important, no question. But most companies run with acumen look at FCF (free cash flow).

You can be profitable but die due to cash flow issues. You can be profitable but if your business requires you to put a significant amount of that profit toward defending your moat, your true returns are smaller than it would seem (compare ASML vs Coca Cola)

“People with limited understanding of business think that business is all about making profits. But those who actually run businesses know that running a business is all about managing cash flows.”

https://commoncog.com/cash-flow-games/
That’s anthropomorphizing intent into them
Ironically, when the killer is alleged to be another tech exec known to the victim, people here still prefer to talk about "crime-ridden SF" instead.
>They've not reduced waste, they're just producing less waste than they were before.

reduce (n) - To bring down, as in extent, amount, or degree; diminish. synonym: decrease.

This is the worst kind of pedantic because it's also wrong. They have reduced waste production and they recycle existing waste. How is that not reducing waste?
Brilliant write up.

> There is also a school of thought that you should start Haskell by teaching the IO monad first, but I am not convinced: in my experience, if someone gets exposed to IO early on, they will contaminate all their functions with IO. They will essentially end up writing Java in Haskell.

I don't think this is such a bad starting place. Crawling before walking. Purifying an (unnecessarily-) IO function into an ordinary function is a good exercise.

Trying to enforce non-IO from the start would be like enforcing 'no new keyword & factories only' in another language.
They're the default keys because a lot of programs use the GNU readline package for line editing.
Doesn't this put the entire dataset into memory no wonder it's so fast.
Then research some more about how "well" it works for France. Germany actually exported quite a lot of energy to France before the transition from nuclear.

France has plenty of problems with nuclear power. The only conclusion is that nuclear power for France only makes sense - barely - because France wants to have nuclear weapons.
And yet… there’s no vehicular homicide crime wave but 8/10 murders in the country involve a gun https://www.pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2022/02/03/what-the-da...
I can’t really put my finger on why, but this comment looks like it came straight from chatGPT.

Did it?
LLMs are Foundational Models, but not all Foundational Models are LLMs.

If you are interested in this space, it does probably make sense to look up what Stable Diffusion (StabilityAI) and Claude (Anthropic) are. Not recognizing them is fine, the pace is pretty incredible in this space and there's lots to learn, but it doesn't make the point you think you are making.
Am I the only one who does NOT feel unsafe in SF at all ? I mean, I choose not to walk in TL and SOMA at night. But why would anyone feel unsafe in North Beach, Marina, Russian Hill, Richmond, Sunset, GG park, Lower Haight, Valencia etc. I have spent many nights walking in Valencia and took Uber home at 2am. Doesn't feel remotely unsafe.
Pretty sure my cat walking on my keyboard with autocorrect can replace a journalist.
That Famous Black Hole Just Got Bigger and Darker
performance is terrible on just about everything. even a 4090 doesn't get above 30 fps on rtx portal without dlss helping out at 4k. A 4090!

Honestly, this seems to be nvidia's way of making everything look slightly better while requiring massively stronger hardware. It feels like this was purposely done to disadvantage amd and intel