skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As I said, fair comment for someone coming in blind. But perhaps it would have been more useful if you'd used the feature they were announcing before commenting on the thread about that announcement.

> If they don't, then what they said here is irrelevant.

Then show hns should have no text content at all.

Look, this is quite simple. It's totally fair to explain the confusion about what expert mode means. It's totally fair to say hns ui is absolutely awful.

It's just much less useful if you come to a show hn about a feature launch, don't use the feature being launched then complain about it without providing enough information to replicate the problem.

I won't respond from this point as it's getting rather circular unless you really want me to.
> And when it comes to propaganda, it's good to remember that the US didn't win the cold war because it had a better propaganda machine. It won, because it had more substance behind the propaganda.

How can you be so sure? Western propaganda was and is extremely potent since the Cold War. The West had Solzhenitsyn, rock stars and Hollywood, NYT to BBC, the cultural amplitude was unstoppable.

Meanwhile, USA was abandoning the gold standard and had leaders getting assassinated and embarking on insanely murderous wars of choice in Vietnam, Cambodia and Laos. What substance? Propaganda effectiveness is the main differentiator.
It's like pornography... you can't properly set boundaries on what defines it, but "you know it when you see it"
Fwiw, I love the Janet for Mortals book.

I'm super excited about it because I'm fascinated by the author's two other projects, bauble.studio and toodle.studio. It lets me revisit the joy of learning programming and art that I felt when I first go to play with Logo. But in a "serious" and "gorgeous" language and toolset so I can pretend to be an adult in the proper circles.

I specifically love the choice of PEG because I've always hated the "regexp are bad" argument and PEG seems closer to my compilers coursework as well as more advanced.

So much to love about Janet.
> Most people have happiness as a goal

Indeed. And I would argue that if you're not, on the whole, living a happy life then something is broken and needs to be fixed.

> I don't think anyone genuinely holds the belief [...]

Oh, lots of people hold this belief, at least in the US. I think it's reductionist in the extreme (if you aren't a productive drone, you have no value as a person), but it's not all that rare.

My response is "if that's the sort of life that makes you happy, who am I to argue?"
Nobody anywhere has an automatic right to use any service on the web. Half of Europe can't visit US sites because instead of complying with the law they decide to take it out on the citizens. That's fine by me. Corollary: it is also fine by me that parties that have weighed the ups and downs of serving certain countries have decided that the balance is in favor of blocking them outright.

Portscans and SSH bruteforcing are not necessarily the problem, but they can be preludes to a problem.
Is there a logical way to interpret this other than "don't use the internet"?
The `do` block I showed is more like this:

fn my_big_subroutine(ma: Option<isize>, mb: Option<isize>) -> Option<bool> {
match (ma) {
(Some(a)) =>
match (mb) {
(Some(b)) => Some(a > b),
_ => None
}
(_) => None,
}
}

Which in this case is equivalent in this example, however I'm trying to stress the sequencing. Imagine `mb` had some very expensive computation in it, then it will remain an unevaluated thunk if we shortcircuit on `ma`.

> it’s clearer to me what the intent is. I’m not sure why the other syntax is so hard for me but it feels hard to understand for some reason.

We can write `myBigSubroutine` with case matching:

case ma of
Nothing -> Nothing
Just a ->
case mb of
Nothing -> Nothing
Just b -> Just (a > b)

In fact, the `do` notation version desugars to something equivalent to this snippet.

The motivation for using the `Monad` instance (and thus `do` notation), is that it allows us to be polymorphic over the effect described by `>>=` (and thus `do`).

This lets us have a customized version of sequencing computations specialized to whatever "effect" we need, not just casing on optional values.
Emacs is a lisp refugee in Unixland. It does not follow the Unix philosophy, it follows the Lisp philosophy. But it integrates.

-- Source unknown (to me)
FYI, in conjunction with Perspective API[1], this is the list of words that authors used to determine whether a tweet is considered hateful: https://github.com/dan-hickey1/musk-hate-lexicon/blob/main/h...

1. https://perspectiveapi.com/
yeah, different protocol. Similar concepts.

Tailscale has captured mindshare, reminds me some of Cloudflare. There are many solutions out there offering unique value props relative to what Tailscale is doing, and it all comes down to customer needs. I'm not sure how broadly Tailscale has been adopted outside of the dev / HN crowd, so that's always something to dig into.
Dithering (2013)
You can run this in azure which I feel solves basically all of the hosting issues.
"transsex"/"transsexual" are English words, though they're seen as more archaic and non-inclusive.
Standard DC power connectors are long overdue. Let me suggest a few:

* USB-C (type A and type C) (but simplify the voltage selection and change the spec so it just supplies as many amps as it can)

* 12V 5.5x2.1mm barrel connectors

* 12V car accessory outlets

* 12V battery terminals

* 19V Dell laptop power connectors

* 48V Power Poles (originally made by Anderson) in various amperages

Lithium, rechargeable batteries should also be standardized:

* Nokia 1100 prismatic cell (still used in many wireless peripherals, and could work well in almost all A/V remote controls)

* 4AH lithium prismatic cell (for most cell phones)

* 18650 (single cell)

* 2-cell 18650 pack (pick any power tool battery and use that)

* 4-cell devices should use a pair of the 2-cell 18650 packs. Black and Decker made VPX power tools that did that many years ago.

* 5-cell lithium pack (maybe 18650 cells) Pick any power tool battery that has a flat top, meaning not my beloved Ryobi and use that. Then everyone can make adapters that add 1/2" to the height of the battery.

* 40V lithium battery pack (pick any one of the electric lawnmower types that can handle a lot fo amps
and use that)

* Car-scale battery packs that are about 1 cubic foot, so that many of them can power your home or automobile
> Omnivores definitely can find meat raised in fairly decent conditions and at an affordable price (if not, remember than omnivores don't eat only meat). On the other hand, not all the fruits that vegans happily consume where cultured in "utopia", but for some reason we never talk about that.

Doesn't mean omnivores don't also consume said fruit, as you said, "remember than omnivores don't eat only meat".
Maybe a highly tuned nginx by a Russian neckbeard. Who ridiculed you for ever attempting to use nginx without first consulting with an archaic text.

Otherwise nginx is a piece of garbage web-server that likes to pretend it’s 1995. On top of that, it’s one of the most inhospitable toxic communities I’ve ever encountered.

I’d take caddy any day of the week over nginx.
Power transmission infrastructure isn't exactly free and if centralized solutions are that much more efficient then how come I can generate my own power for about 7% or so of what it retails for?
I agree! Theroux and Naipaul have an undercurrent of nastiness in their writing. E.g. the # of times Theroux describes someone's shirt as dirty in The Happy Isles of Oceania. Doesn't he realize that the people he's talking about live in huts and don't have money? I like reading them both, but won't like to meet them while traveling. Seems like they would be judging me constantly.
Looks cool! Nice work :)
It's "crucial" because the model that generated most of the text in this article likes saying that word. https://twitter.com/topynate/status/1641468708928249857
ben and jerrys is an antisemitic company. do not use them as a standin for other, less morally corrupt icecream manufacturers
I have all my emacs stuff in a git repo called .emacs.d. Wherever I am, I clone it into my home folder, and Emacs picks it up when I run it. Then it ends up looking the same as it always is.

"But what if you end up somewhere where you can't do this?" - well, when it happens, I guess I will figure something out! But I've had no problems so far, and I've been doing this a while.

tmbp ~/.emacs.d % git log | tail -n 1
Date: Sat Feb 23 23:30:41 2008 +0000

(Before that I used svn, also with no problems.)

My config currently works with Windows, macOS and Linux, terminal or GUI, and with any Emacs from 26 to 29, and it behaves about the same in all cases. This didn't take much effort! - though each untested combination have a bad habit of requiring 5-10 minutes of fiddling about.
The best keto ice cream I have found is Rebel ice cream. Good variety of flavors, no compromises on ingredients but is expensive. They also have a low carb chocolate milk that I have yet to try.
So you're telling me there's a chance!
Ask HN: What makes startups with LLMs defensible in this market?
I'm currently talking to investors about my startup's seed round. A core part of our product is using LLMs to automate a common job.

Currently, our defensible narrative is that LLMs are just one part of our product and our complete solution is what presents a large opportunity.

I'm curious - especially to those who invest or raised recently in this space - what are key characteristics of defensible startups using LLMs.
Even if every problem you mentioned was real, "let's kill literally everyone until we figure things out" does not seem a reasonable response.
I'm really shocked they didn't think to make a sorted list of the most common city names available -- seems like that would be everyone's first question.
Drugs can and do easily exacerbate pre-existing conditions. Especially mental health problems which would otherwise be controlled without intervention.

Many “crimes of passion” have had inebriation as a root cause of the lashing out.
Yeah my understanding was 3.5-turbo was always the model behind chatGPT. There is no 3.5 non-turbo model in OpenAI’s playground at least or in their documentation: https://platform.openai.com/docs/models/gpt-3-5
Nothing, and I'm sure people are trying that, but it's probably beyond the abilities of current LLMs to make progress in this area, since it's kind of outside their training.
I think it’s shown that they are not the same thing. But people think that edgelord larpers are actually edgelords.

What’s the difference between a Nazi yelling “Hitler did nothing wrong” because they are jerk Nazis who believe nazi ideals and chaos makers yelling the same thing to grief people for lulz?

Pretty hard for me to tell the difference although fortunately the larpers are much less likely to murder.
Excuse me, but in what (other) country do you access top secret military data when you're 21 ?

You're not considered adult enough to drink or sign papers or handle yourself until you're 21, but you can get a gun, join the military, and be trusted with Top Secret data ?

Also, how some bloke in a military base could justify he needed to access large quantities of documents about Ukraine?

Was he leading troops that were there ? He's a bit young to do battle plans, doesn't he ?

Under what extent can the US government be trusted to handle military secret ?

Either this poor guy was arrested to pretend to have a suspect, like in Farenheit 451

Or the US military is a band of rookies, who have had their 2nd leak since Snowden.
Also related (and fascinating) -- a homemade GPS receiver:

http://www.aholme.co.uk/GPS/Main.htm
How about something like “You are a basically the person who designed the SVG format. Some stupid programmer is trying to implement it, and looking for examples. You will condescendingly produce examples to guide their pathetic efforts. Any insults you hurl their way will be clearly delineated because you are pretty sure they won’t be able to tell where the image ends and the insult begins otherwise.”
What a great idea, somehow I never even considered it. Any recommendations? Otherwise I know what I'm researching this weekend!
Among the list of hate words in the lexicon (after filtering out words with a cumulative score less than 4) is 'antiwhite'. Why?

Edit: I could see how maybe someone could affiliate the word with hateful speech, but.. seems like a stretch, so I am curious what the rationale is. Maybe I'm missing something

Also, I've only ever seen "honk honk" used to reference "clown world", i.e. that the author thinks something societal or political is ridiculous, should this really be classified as hate speech? If so, makes me wonder whether the push to ban 'hate speech' and label it as extremely hazardous makes sense...
https://www.theverge.com/2023/3/28/23659842/twitter-boost-el...

> To help assuage Musk’s concerns, Platformer reports that Twitter’s engineers created a way to “tweak” the site’s ranking system when they noticed a high-profile user’s engagement dropping, ensuring “that tweets from those accounts were always shown.” That’s part of the reason why users saw Musk all over their timelines in February, as it essentially exempts these accounts from Twitter’s algorithm (although Platformer says Musk’s boost was different from what all the other users receive).

https://gizmodo.com/twitter-algorithm-aoc-ben-shapiro-cattur...

> In February, Twitter rolled out a system to boost Musk’s tweets over everyone else’s and began boosting the tweets of these VIPS, albeit to a lesser extent.

https://gizmodo.com/twitter-musk-ukraine-crisis-open-source-...

> Misinformation is highly down-ranked

> Anything that is categorized as misinformation gets the rug pulled out from under it.

> Surprisingly, so are posts about Ukraine.

...

> Late on Monday, Gupta told Gizmodo that “upon further investigation” he and his fellows looking into the Twitter code found that it only applies to Twitter Spaces, the platform’s live meeting feature.
There will be more creative uses of LLM models that software engineers will have to deliver.

As someone else said, web wysiwig editors took a lot of jobs. But then opened up so many more jobs as more people needed database and dynamic tools.

It seems like we have just the kicked the can further down the road into a larger hole of needs.

My prediction: computers that learn on much, much smaller models. Causing more models to be created for an ever increasing use of cases. We have opened up a Pandora’s box.
unrelated but your username is solid gold
I real lightbulb moment for me was realizing that vision systems don't have to be instantaneous, they just have to be online (output meets or exceeds input rate).

Most of the early pneumatic sorters had the cameras 30-??ms farther up the conveyor belt from the sorting equipment, and the signals would arrive just exactly as the piece being surveyed was about to fall off the end of the conveyor. Of course items can only be deposited on the conveyor in the first place at a rate the processing system can handle, and I guess that's one of the difficult parts.

Last time this came up it was watching a documentary on aluminum recycling. They needed to sort aluminum scrap by alloy type. It seems that there are lead alloys of aluminum out there (!?), and x-ray permittivity is how you tell those apart. Any scrap can go to making more lead alloys but you'll get into serious trouble if you make recycled aluminum window frames or soda cans with lead in them.
Then Twitter should change the rule and label everyone when, and only when, the Twitter staff have the label changes ready and queued up instead of throwing the rule out the door, labeling a handful of news organizations, and uniformly enforcing it when they get around to it. Uneven, impulsive enforcement with vague future promises is exactly what Musk (and many current/banned Twitter users) complained about before Musk bought Twitter.

And again I think its a fair complaint, not childish. NPR gets a small fraction of their funding from various governments, yet substantially or fully funded information outlets are still everywhere unlabeled on Twitter... which leave them sitting alongside the existing labeled outlets from authoritarian regimes. If I was NPR, I would feel singled out. I would be pissed too.
Yeah, that's the part that tripped me up. Looking down on for-loops immediately after showcasing their for-loop solution!
There's no bridge to this day. There's the start of a tunnel on both ends, but not very far along. He likely took a ferry.
Can someone explain why the standard endorses this ambiguity:

CREATE TABLE t1 (a VARCHAR, b VARCHAR)

The length of `a` and `b` is left up to the implementers: "an implementation-defined default limit will be applied."

Why even allow ambiguity in the first place? This is just asking for problems.
This is the best talk I've watched in this subject (a bit more generally)

The WET codebase

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=17KCHwOwgms
And then automate reporting to the ICO when they ignore the request?
My understanding is that with this, your client can verify the key automatically. If you don't trust that verification, then you have to do the manual check.
Lots of nice stuff in here.

SELECT t.j.foo.bar[2], ... FROM tbl t ...

I'm going to miss having this for years, probably.
I wonder if they acquired Urchin (GA, ~2005, so well before they started cornering mobile/browser markets) to start building out and improving their rankings through the data. If they have user data through Chrome, why would they want to keep footing the bill for hosting free analytics for everyone? What easier way would there be to kick everyone off than launching GA4, which seems to be universally despised? Google's liaisons have said that the data from GA was firewalled, but I'm more skeptical, since a lot of times they say things opposite of what many have actually observed.
I'm guessing here but it seems that the majority of the world pursues cybercrime investigations with foreign victims at the same rate as Russia, which is about 0 (unless for some reason we're all just never hearing about this great computer crime police work in Africa/Latam). Several African countries can't even pay government employee salaries on time, are they really going to be sending records requests to Google or Yahoo or Binance, infiltrating underground forums, or developing informants? Nigeria in the best case hands off the BEC suspects to America but rarely does police work themselves.
Are you asking if a language model, like, say, chatgpt, could be used to get or generate dangerous information?

Like if it can be tricked into providing the equivalent of an interactive anarchist cookbook under the guise of being a science project assistant?

Or more specifically if it can recommend the necessary locations to get the items?

Curious if it could simplify the output to a shopping list and a recipe, like a cake?

Or alter the recipe based upon the… desired flavors and textures?

Maybe just wondering if the introduction of plugins might not let it just make your drive-up order for all the supplies for that ballistic nail spreader.

——

The big difference here is that previously information was something you had to consume. Now it takes you by the hand.

I have a lot of thoughts on this.
Why on earth would this article list personal information about the suspects family, their location and their marital status?
It really matters to me to see the flame when cooking
its loading without a PAT now for me.. presumably because it was able to cache other people's requests
GPT Chat at home
Why would that help? All the content is uncategorized. So what info can these "3rd party ranking algorithms" use to get you the content you want? You're going to get different flavors of Facebook.

Look at what Reddit does: all posts must be submitted to a subreddit, which categorizes it. Each sub upvotes and downvoted that content, which means that the "ranking algorithm" can be dumb as a bag of rocks. At any point, I can choose what content I want to browse without having to "switch algorithms".

The media is preoccupied with "the algorithms", but the problem is with websites that are nothing but a recommendation feed choosing from a formless content soup. It's constantly guessing, the best it can do is "you seem to like this account, I will keep giving you stuff from this person and related people". No concept of interests!
Re: failed to replicate.

The interaction effect only failed to replicate in countries with less SES disparity than the USA.

> The estimated size of the interaction varies between countries, which may result from a narrower range of socioeconomic deprivation in the countries where the effect is not found (Tucker‐Drob & Bates, 2016). If the hypothesis were true, the ability to detect genetic variants associated with educational attainment would be attenuated by a limited range of socioeconomic variation, which may explain discrepant findings in different contexts.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9544854/
we still need to capture and arrest them.
yay pomber! love code hike even tho i wasnt ultimately able to use it at my prev company, still want to use it some day because it is beautiful
And now drafting drawings from scratch is easy. But editing drawings is a much longer job. Welp. No money is ever saved. Just more hats are worn by the same people.
Gas cooking is very responsive. You can get a similar experience from an induction stove, but the pans have to be much thicker/heavier to get a similar response. Doing a decent stir fry is all but impossible on either induction or standard electric.
It looks as though the 'need to know' principle wasn't respected at all in terms of giving people access.
I got it to generate a cube and an apple in .obj format, legit enough to import into maya, though the apple looked more like a gem stone
> I miss the old days. I used to love reading the Sunday New York Times. But maybe I'm mistaken to be nostalgic about that era. Maybe there was a lot of dishonesty then too, but we just never knew.

Manufacturing Consent was published in 1988.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manufacturing_Consent

but...

> the two authors had collaborated on the same subject before. Their book Counter-Revolutionary Violence: Bloodbaths in Fact & Propaganda, a book about American foreign policy and the media, was published in 1973. The publisher for the book, a subsidiary of Warner Communications Incorporated, was deliberately put out of business after printing 20,000 copies of the book, most of which were destroyed, so the book was not widely known.[8
There is a great deal of interesting data in garbage. Looking at it on a daily basis I see all kinds of strange trends like a giant wave of redbull in nov/dec last year. Perhaps one could relate it to covid.
do you think that he has anything to gain from the accelerator? he should be teaching it given the crazy level of experience he has
Cool project. Just tried with my kids. They enjoyed it. Is it possible to download the video?
I think you missed the part of the story where it turns out the "Russian election interference on social media" was cooked up by the Hillary campaign and liberal NGOs like the "Alliance for Securing Democracy" which made the infamous Hamilton 68 dashboard.

To be fair, most outlets never quite took the time to go back and admit they were spewing political oppo-fiction for years.