skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Can you share with us the main differentiator your product has over some behemoth like Google translate?

You might as well ask how a screwdriver is different from an apple. (:

Google Translate, is, well, a translator. You give it text, and it translates it. That's it. My site's for people who want to actually learn Japanese to fluency, with a particular focus on media-based immersion.

For example, is there a Japanese anime you'd like to watch without subtitles? I can probably help with that; I have vocabulary lists for many shows, and the site can teach you (through flashcards/spaced repetition) most of the words you'll need to be able to understand it.

I also have a plugin for the mpv video player where (if you load appropriate Japanese subtitles for the show you're watching) the plugin will color-code all of the words according to whether you know them or not, and you'll also have access to a popup dictionary where you can just hover your mouse over any of the words and see their definition. You can also use the plugin to make vocabulary flashcards with the screenshot + audio from what you're watching; demo video by one of my users: https://streamable.com/ww6x0e

I can keep on going as there's a lot more, but I'll stop here! It's probably not appropriate for someone who just wants to learn a little bit of Japanese for tourism purposes.
This is cool, but it’s so overwhelming it’s hard to grasp. I think it would benefit from from like a scroll bar or something to get a sense of the progress (or lack thereof) while scrolling
There is ZERO truth to this.
Always classy, Uber! ;)
Flouride works by direct contact with the tooth. Drinking it, or sublingual uptake does little useful.
No, it is different, because apparently manufacturers are literally adding sesame, not just labeling it.

But labeling "may contain traces of" is common for other allergens. Why is sesame special? The article doesn't address this.
Thanks! I'm composing my resignation letter in Comic Sans right now.
> I think the only way to ensure that these days is to not allow data to ever leave your computer under any circumstances.

Indeed. Which I consider to be a real loss.
Since your pricing is a one-time fee, I assume you need to keep finding new customers to hit $2k / month.

Just curious, how do you market your product?
The MVP: Most Valuable Programmer
Gen 5 pcie is ~4GB/s per lane, AMD Genoa chips have 128 such lanes. That means on the order of 500GB/s aggregate throughput, which is comparable to the aggregate theoretical throughput of the 12 channel DDR5 RAM of the Genoa CPUs.

In other words, with enough data interleaving between enough NVME SSDs, you should have SSD throughput of the same order of magnitude as the system RAM.

The weights are static, so it’s just reads.
I think you're taking this way too seriously, it was just a blogger having a little lighthearted jab
Aye, bored rich kids were working for places like The Economist, Vice, and (MS)NBC long before Parlor and Fox News exploded onto the scene.
To defend GP, I don't think you should be using a contraction there. It's a bit like how you shouldn't just say "Will you take the trash out?" "Yes, I'll".
Depends on what your dehumidifier and related equipment is.

On the other hand, distilled water isn't necessary to maintain the purity of your bodily fluids.
To be honest, I find their music recommendation algo still way behind what Pandora (the music streaming, not the jewelry brand) cracked years ago.

It amazed me with the fact that even after creating a radio from a single song, I got exactly what I wanted to hear (including new songs).

It's a shame that it's not available in Europe.
> Most of the time they don't.

Don't comply? Most of the time?

> Ever wonder why food health and safety inspections discover serious issues in basically all restaurants they inspect?

As a person whose mother has worked at restaurants for over 40 years, and whose best friends owned a restaurant for close to 20, I can tell you that those "serious issues" and "all restaurants" are FUD.

> Most restaurants stay in business because the inspection are generally pretty lenient (issue warnings and don't close the business down)

So you write this ^. And then you immediately go on to write this:

> Now let's try to imagine how a restaurant is going to approach GDPR compliance.

It will be the same: they will get it wrong the first time, get issued a warning, fix it, and carry on.

Don't forget that those poor hapless restaurants also have to deal with:

- handling money

- taxes

- accounting

- labor laws

- zoning regulations

- smoking regulaitons

- fire regulations

- contract laws (becuase they have contracts with many external parties)

And this is why your "most of the time they don't comply" is bullshit is that they do comply, most of the time. And when thry don't, they get issued a warning, fix their shit, or go out of business. This is no different.

And yeah, small business (or any business for that matter) really has no business collecting my private data, and selling it to third-parties.
> so the US Army wouldn't take me even if I begged them to.

They definitely would if you happened to be a clinical psychologist.
An Interview Process That Works for Me
I agree it looks like a scam -- I've notified Shopify, who appear to be the ones hosting the site.
Lovely article. My first install was Slackare 2.3, kernel version 1.2.13 on a 386sx. Thirteen floppies. I don't even remember why I installed it or where I'd heard of it. I don't think I even knew what Unix was, but I vividly remember the "darkstar $" prompt when it was all done and then my social life suffered for a few months...
Muhammad: The truth about Britain’s most misunderstood name
Super interesting, thanks for sharing! The 20/10 wake/sleep cycle sounds close to how I might function if it wasn’t for daylight cycles and social obligations. Actually, mostly the latter.
EORs target more modern, remote-first, async-friendly companies. Visas are for traditional companies that want to see butts in seats.
Have you tried UXWizz? Self-hosted, but also comes with heatmaps and recordings compared to Motomo.
Ask HN: Good IRC Channels?
I used to have a great time on Freenode, sometimes. I appreciate the atmosphere of freedom which was there, I have never seen freeer internet community in terms of number of allowed topics. Also it used to have a broad list of CS groups full of really smart guys who are great even to read silently. But Freenode is dead for 2 years, there are few connections but no discussion anymore. Where are those boys? I don't believe they all migrated to rich services with cool emojies, ability to report something to moderators and proprietary protocol.
Web devs are the comedians of software development in that they’re the lowest form- not because the job is easy, but because bootcamps (which were/are all web dev bootcamps) cranked them out, and if someone tells me they’re a web dev it’s more likely than any other specialization that they are we’ll just say “junior level”.

I used to be a web dev, and got tired of what you’re describing- things like the CRUD app of the week in the JS framework of the year… it’s all problems that have already been solved. Meanwhile I find data engineering and data science to be actually-interesting.
Twitter is now conservative-Twitter. They just approved a right wing dude w/ the N-word in his username.
People who grow up with untreated water do in fact have resistance to the pathogens in it. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travelers%27_diarrhea
I was just about to post emailengine here, the business model is so similar to sidekiq.

Any other great ideas?
Several years after Nixon's resignation,[0] Carl Bernstein published a piece in Rolling Stone alleging that over the course of 25 years, the CIA had tasked more than 400 journalists for special assignments, including Pulizer Prize winnders and a publisher for the New York Times.

"Some of these..relationships with the Agency were tacit; some were explicit. There was cooperation, accommodation and overlap. Journalists provided a full range of clandestine services-from simple intelligence gather to serving as go-betweens."

Laundering information.

[0] https://www.carlbernstein.com/the-cia-and-the-media-rolling-...
[1] CIA Officer Frank Snepp discusses planting stories in Vietnam: youtu.be/UwerBZG83YM
It seems to be available for download for free? 1st or second hit on google:

http://www.evolocus.com/Textbooks/Koonin2011.pdf
I guess I didn't understand what was meant. When I encountered problems based purely on my physical characteristics / ethnicity / nationality I was very upset and my response was to give up and go home for the day. I didn't try to harm the other person and I wouldn't have wanted them harmed.

But nobody ever beat me with a baseball bat. That's a different category of racism that I haven't commented on and that obviously is different from the topic at hand.
Ask Matt Taibbi what he thinks of censorship on Twitter now.
I dread it but there are a lot of groups on Discord of all types.
OP was asking why de Sade is promoted so heavily. From a philosophical point of view he is a non-entity, from an erotica point of view he is dime a dozen, but it is true that as far as how low can the beastly nature of man get, he has 'contributed' to literature.

OP's question is also my question. Why is this vile little man being promoted so much? After all, his entire existence and works are simply a declaration that humanity and nature are really just playthings for pleasure and settling scores with an abhored nature for a people like the Marquis. I can see how that sort of 'philosophy' would carry weight in some influential quarters.
FYI on your jobseeker's page the copy reads "Finding a new jpb" instead of "Finding a new job"
The Texas panhandle area?

We've all got fluoride stains. And the water tasted like crap because it was mixed with excessively saline water to reduce both the salt and fluoride levels to something reasonable.
You didn't understand my comment. It's not about the specific thing (be it nmap or some other tool), it's about the intention behind using the tool.

The administrator of the network didn't intend to allow port scanning, but there were no technical measures (firewalls) to prevent it, and you did port scanning => you're wrong.

The writer of the access control software intended to have no bugs, but a bug slipped in to allow you to exploit it => you're wrong.
This is just an ad...

Anyway, I like journaling. I don't see a reason to reduce it to an either/or activity. I use Obsidian and "jumble" my practical note taking with my introspective stuff. Plus it shows me upcoming birthdays, the daily weather, and a fun picture of a dog![1]

Hold on, I may have just invented a cool new app! ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[1]: obligatory dog photos: https://imgur.com/a/y6bOEid
Is it better than the standard YouTube algo?

Because on YT video it's like:

You picked Rammstein? Sure, here is your next video with classical music, because you were listening to it last week.
Most roofing systems are pretty inert.

I'd be more concerned about lead or rubber than asphalt (but still not really that concerned).
I was wondering about the wording as well, but this is the first article when I googled "is antifreeze sweet":

https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2004/07/why-is-antifreez...

I wouldn't have thought so either, but apparently someone at slate likes it.
Shortening sentences using longer sentences
In much of the US, non-homogenized milk is very rare.
Yep - that's correct. My hunch was that people are tired of paying for subscriptions but would drop $20 on something that makes their life slightly better.

GTM is the hardest but mostly through referrals / word of mouth. I want to do more Twitter/LI ads.
Like everything on the prehistoric timeline, the dawn of agriculture keeps getting pushed back. I think that's believed to be older than 10k years ago now.
Ah yes, the "soft" Roko's Basilisk.
I don't like an idea to have an account.
Underlines in how much turmoil the digital ad market is and also how much Trump means in monetary terms for engagement as he brought his audience to Truth Social.
Evergreen, given the occurrent ITT of critiques which misunderstand this work as "assertion of an Achilles' Heel" rather than of one among many bugs in the tracker which will duly get prioritized and fixed:

Ximm's Law: every critique of AI assumes to some degree that contemporary implementations will not, or cannot, be improved upon.

Lemma: any statement about AI which uses the word "never" to preclude some feature from future realization is false.

Footnote de rigeur warning about reasoning about these systems from a fixed-mindset as "stochastic parrots": these things are absolutely nothing like Markov chain abacuses, ELIZA, or indeed parrots; holding an over-simplified model prevents actual reasoning—especially given the non-linearities of improvement which continue to be demonstrated. C.f. "GPT-5's unicorn."

Hypothesis: the optimal internal representation of the world needed to generate language homologous to it, is one which performs abstraction into world-models and state, and learns predictive functions about those models, testing them in the Sagan sense against data. QED such things are not an accident but an inevitable emergent property of these systems, one which indeed we continue to see emerging.

TL;DR be very careful of partaking of cynicism and skepticism based on inappropriately simple and rapidly-deprecating models of the status quo.
It's few evenings of work, nothing advanced. I might clean it up and publish.
you also have to consider population distribution. Most people live on the coast with more cloud cover. This means rooftop solar is naturally distrubuted where it is less productive.

This is one of many reasons why commerical solar is not buit on the coasts.
Vice News launched December 2013.

Fox News launched October 1996.

What are you even talking about?
make sense! thankU
Well, as I said in another comment, I actually like that their website design pushes back against the huge beige conformity that constitutes most of the web. So I'm inclined to feel fondly for the company as a result.

I will admit, though, that that particular page put me off. It's just so hostile that it clearly says that I'm not welcome there even though I do agree with the substance of what they're saying. So I haven't looked at the rest of the site, and I don't even know what the site or the company is about.

I'm sure that they couldn't care less about me, though, and rightfully so.
The labeling I usuaully see is something like "Processed in a facility that also processes <x>"
It could be that they are not training GPT-5 for a simple reason: Microsoft ran out of GPU compute [1] and they focus on meeting inference demand for now.

Also, the GPT-4 message cap at chat.openai.com was shown as something along the lines of "we expect lower caps next week", then changed to "expect lower caps as we adjust for demand" to "GPT-4 currently has a cap of …". This sounds to me like they changed from having lots of compute to being limited by it. Also note how everything at OpenAI is now behind a sign up and their marketing has slowed down. Similarly, Midjourney has stopped offering their free plan due to lack of compute.

Seems like we didn’t need a 6 months pause letter. Hardware constraints limit the progress for now.

[1]: https://www.deeplearning.ai/the-batch/issue-192/
My understanding is that, after some realizations of impermanence, fundamental suffering, and no-self, something like this isn't insane. If anything, the way people treat themselves and others in ordinary life, the kind of mental gymnastics and self-inflicted anguish in "normal" society is the insanity.
Parkinson's Disease Biomarker Found
If your ego is so large that you think you’re enlightened, you probably aren’t.
More or less the same (12 years in 1994), however we didn't have internet until some years later. I learned pretty much everything from a Dutch Linux book (which was on the market very early) and all the HOWTOs and guides from the Linux Documentation project.
> Given a single chat box with an LLM on the other end, what would have to occur for you to give it access to the systems?

Is this supposed to be hard? I setup a process that pipes input/output from the chat agent to a terminal and give it a prompt that contains whatever it needs to login.

That probably doesn't lead to anything too catastrophic happening today, but that's giving the chat box access to the data center.

> Its totally possible to have a fully secure system.

A lot of things are possible. It's a lot easier to have a less than fully secure system.
I will never understand why most of Big Tech acquisitions end up with a shutdown.
(same for Google, FB, etc, apart from a few outliers)

Like:
They could just buy a controlling stake, let it run by the original team and just add some cross promo to their main product.
I like having a clear definition like basing it on continental plates, though a map of the plates seems to raise its own set of questions. How small is too small of a plate to count? What of parts of what we call continents that are actually on a different plate?

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/b4/Plate_te...

I think continent, in the general usage, is really more of a cultural/political definition than an an objective standalone concept.
This is common biology knowledge and has been proven. Pigs do it also. Fishes also change its strategies under heavy predator's pressure.

Shouldn't be difficult to find examples on any decent ecology handbook
And Hitler was a vegetarian. No amount of supposed "good" outweighs the absolute evil of the man. The same applies to Trump. The man is out-and-out Anti-American and is almost literally the embodiment of the seven deadly sins. I don't give a crap if her personally saved 1000 puppies from dying in a fire. It doesn't outweigh the rest of his actions.
Pirep – a free collaborative database of public, private, and unmapped airports
Yeah. That indicates "mental illness" is not about the mental well-being of the person, but how much negative societal impact that person has with the people around them.
"I've worked with some of the leading AI practitioners and thought leaders to create a framework that outlines a new regulatory regime that would prevent potentially catastrophic damage to our country while simultaneously making sure the US advances and leads in this transformative technology."

Who are the leading AI practitioners and thought leaders?

'Finally, for the protect part, developers would have to demonstrate their AI systems are aligned with American values and that "AI developers deliver on their promise to create a better world."'

How are "American values" defined? IMO, it is especially important to have a clear understanding of what American values are moving forward, as grey area leads to interpretation "loopholes" in the audit, test, and review phases.

The article also mentions NTIA issuing a formal request for comment on "AI Accountability Policy"[1]. Deadline is 12 June 2023.

[1]https://ntia.gov/issues/artificial-intelligence/request-for-...
Allergies do develop later in life. I developed a milk allergy (casein or whey, not lactose) in my twenties.
Twitter is now the Conservative twitter
Maybe back to pre-war levels, but are they profitable?
> A raisin's worth of structural paint is enough to cover the front and back of a door.

Ah, so this will never come to a home near you. Shame.
Except in this case the food manufacturers are deliberately adding the allergen as an ingredient, so it would be like adding asbestos to an FFP2 mask and adding the CA label.
Even if it becomes profitable will it be enough to keep up with the required debt payments? If not will Elon keep selling Tesla stock to pay the debt or eventually let it go bankrupt?
> Seems the article missed an opportunity to provide actionable information instead of the usual doomsaying

The action the article wants you to take is to be mad and keep clicking.
I began tinkering with Linux about 6 months after it's inception. I think....think...it was what became Slackware in what I gathered up the things to make it run on my Micron Pentium.

This was in the day I was trying everything on that machine. I had DOS running on it at one point, then OS/2 Warp, then Windows 3.1, then Linux, then back to OS/2 etc etc. It was at a time where everything was up in the air, before Windows 95 took a major foothold.
Let’s say that it would severely complicate the remainder of the flight which would not be likely to last very long.

This tragically happened to an airbus flown as American 587 shortly after 9/11. It crashed into a neighborhood in New York City after it encountered wake turbulence from another jet and one of the pilots responded too aggressively with the rudder. Truly a horrifying incident.

Parenthetically I don’t recall whether this was a training issue, a software issue, or a pilot error. Accordingly, I don’t want to sound like I’m slamming the pilot.

On the other hand I’ve seen a B-52 lose just about the entirety of its vertical stabilizer and it didn’t seem to care at all; landed safely.
If my grandmother had wheels she would have been a bicycle.

That's how people comparing ai to humans sound.
I always used the nose even when my friends used noseless emoticons as the latter look like squished faces to me :-P
Would love to see a more composable UNION in the future.

Instead of:
select * from a UNION select * from b UNION select * from c

I'd like to do:
select * from UNION (a, b, c)
> arguably two facets of the same emotion

I don't think so. For example, when a family member's biopsy comes back clear, I feel relief but not satisfaction.

I wonder if seen in brain chemistry and vital signs these emotions exhibit differently. I'd guess they would.
My favourite is 'may contain nuts', on a bag of nuts.
Ask HN: Put vs. Patch Verbs
I've noticed a lot of developer use PUT when they mean PATCH. Correct me if I'm wrong but PUT is an upsert and PATCH is just an update. POST is a create.

So you can do: POST to create, then PATCH to update 1 field

Or: PUT to create if row not there, but update existing row if it is there. You must pass in all the fields needed for a POST plus the uuid of the row.

Or: PATCH with the uuid of the row and just a one or two fields you want to update but not 100% of the fields.

But in most API's I've worked on they ignore PATCH, have no upsert ability, and make PUT update just a few fields.

How do we feel about this? Keep using PUT this way since it's so common or fight and good fight and use the 3 combo POST,PUT,PATCH?
What Happened to ChatOps?
Recently wrote a piece on ChatOps, which is a bit of a curious term that's gone out of style but remains a pretty common DevOps pattern.
ooh someone rewrote the title i put, thanks bro