skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> “My team is frustrated by the permissive nature of the platform,” Carbee said.

As someone who implements Salesforce projects for companies like this, I place the blame solely on whoever setup that Vermont org. Salesforce's permissions are very, very powerful and flexible, which also makes them complex. Salesforce recommends and works best with a "least privilege" security model.

It is frustrating to me how often I see colleagues (and some clients) push for a "wide open" permissions structure, where every internal user can see everything unless otherwise specified. It's just laziness towards doing it the right way. During a brand-new Salesforce implementation for a multi-thousand user company, the stakeholders pushed me hard for an open policy. "We trust our employees". Ugh.
Primary problem: Distribute work on heterogenous data across a cluster of heterogenous processes. Add new processes (either additional workers or additional capabilities) by attaching them to the existing shared tuple space. Add new data by wrapping it into a tuple and tossing it into the pile. Add a processor for the new data by having it search for a pattern that picks up the new tuple.

Similar concept behind message queue based systems, service oriented architecture, and many, many others. Though more pull-based than push-based. You wouldn't explicitly launch a process, you have a process that sits around waiting to for a tuple to show up and then takes/copies it and does the work.
I made a thingy that receives pictures of the earth from a geostationary satellite: https://gist.github.com/lxe/c1756ca659c3b78414149a3ea723eae2
They have been using TSMC for a few decades for many of their chips. The last ~5 years has been the cutting edge chips...but they still have a lot of old chips made by TSMC still (think ethernet controller chips, etc).
A mirror I just made: http://ni.4a.si/anonymous/gpt4free/

It's still available on github.
>Successful companies get infiltrated by Wall Street MBA types who make decisions for the short term to manipulate the stock price

This really applies for Intel, but for Google, I think it's less so. I've been thinking you have to look at incentives and at a large corporation everyone is incentivized to make the most amount of money in the shortest amount of time. If you really want to spend years hammering away at something, it made more sense to just start your own company doing that where you would reap most of the benefits through equity. There is no reason for someone to spend years at Google on a project that is seemingly going nowhere; they would struggle to get promoted, and if it does work out, most of the value will go to existing shareholders.
It wouldn't have mattered either way because his mother was a US citizen, making him a natural-born citizen even if he were born in outer space.
... but maybe harder to implement.

Dark Matter is so mysterious not because people don't have "ideas" about what it could be, but rather because it is so hard to detect. All of the other big problems in fundamental physics have this issue.

Maybe it it is not so bad outside physics. I remember people talking 10 years ago about how the drug industry had run out of "blockbusters" but lately we've had mRNA vaccines and Ozempic.
Your rights are your rights, don't give them up.
European Defence Partnerships
"Hierarchically nesting some cooperation formats in others that all share overarching principles and norms would reduce overlap and ‘meeting fatigue’, increase efficiency, coherence and output of remaining European defence partnerships, and ultimately lead to a Europe that is ‘stronger together’."

When looking at the figures, there indeed seems to be a need for such nesting.
No. Cloudflare offers different levels of protection. One level is ‘prevent DDoS.’ Another level is ‘prevent bots from accessing the site at all.’ Not all bots are part of a DDoS. The problem is that many website owners turn on the second setting, because ‘bots are bad,’ without realizing that this means that some of their users are going to have to fill out Captchas.

(Comment written from memory, I may have details wrong.)
Education won't fix broken incentives namely a lack of consequences for bad behavior. If anything shrinking the pool will only worsen it.
> crawls every single webpage (and we have 10's of thousands) every couple days

100,000 / (86400 * 2) = 0.58 req/sec.

I acknowledge that those requests are likely bursty, but you were complaining as if the total amount was the problem. If the instantaneous request rate is the actual problem, you should be able to throttle on that, no?

I can totally believe your site has a bunch of accidental complexity that is harder to fix than just pragmatically hassling users. But it'd be better for everyone if this were acknowledged explicitly rather than talked about as an inescapable facet of the web.
Liberals’ online streaming bill set to become law after passing Senate
I remember when this passed and thinking that it was all the big, incompetent businesses that can afford lawyers on retainer making sure that only big businesses that can afford lawyers on retainer maintain their position of superior power over individuals. Snuffing out any hope that the little guy - who through sheer talent - can do things on this incredible newfangled equalizing innovation called the Internet will finally have some real chance at power.

Bank of America used it to make people who simply changed the account number in their URL bar the criminals instead of them, who were completely incompetent at securing access to their customer's accounts. What previously would have been arguably criminal negligence.

It placed intent above competence - but only for those who can afford lawyers.

And here it is again, being abused the same way.

Hot take: It should be repealed completely.
Looks cool. I’m a big rails fan. Could you give an example of what kind of apps this might be useful for?
management issues, comp issues. those are not fundamental, but it seems an awfully sticky sauce, and they seem neck deep in these.
[[The Liberals’ online streaming bill passed its final vote in the Senate and is now awaiting royal assent. Bill C-11 will force digital platforms, like Netflix and YouTube, to contribute financially to Canadian content.]]
Perhaps a silly question, but does turning it off and back on again also resolve the problem?

I can occasionally hear such noises from monitors, and have always thought it was some kind of interaction with the phase of the AC power and some kind of internal physics of the monitor. Generally, turning it off and back on again fixes it for me.
The 80s called and they want their "Welfare queen" talking points back.
Yeah, everything here seems basically reasonable, I'd quibble with a couple things but it's debatable. And we might be talking past each other a little bit on use cases. Anyway, it's a fun space.

edit: To me this is a better summary of what a vector db is useful for:
https://cloud.google.com/blog/topics/developers-practitioner...

And if someone is building a chat interface which is effectively a search product then they are going to find these things useful. But it's not a generic LLM memory layer or something.
The most entertaining part of when I first ran into endless verification loop/Cloudflare error codes is that I couldn't access their official forums/support articles for information due to the same problems.
Presentations and pitch decks by failures and frauds
Her cronies must not have degrees. Nothing to see here.
In fifty years, there will be a Ng’s School of Magic and Useful Incantations.

How all that stuff works will have been forgotten by the human race.
>Rather more disturbing — particularly here in Neukölln, a neighbourhood copiously populated by leftie Americans and families from the Middle East — is the Arabic-German barber shop called WHITE BOSS.

Not sure why that's disturbing. I imagine if it were a different color, the author would have no issue with it.
In your mind, maybe. In the real world, the actual words of the statute are important.
Current denim fabrics typically contain some 5% elastane, which gives a bit of strechiness, but doesn't last that long.
Whenever I have to deal with logs, it's either:

a) simplicity of rsyslog

b) monstruosity of ELK | Grafana | etc.

Somehow I like Prometheus (I think it's "simple"), but it's not enough to display and search for logs.
Somehow, none of the companies I have worked for, have used "simple tools" like rsyslog to handle logs. They all used cloud (Datadog, New relic) or self hosted (ELK, Prometheus + Grafana). I wonder why (I guess it's because "money buys you simplicity")

I just want the following:

- on each machine I want to get logs from: install the agent (a simple binary) + simple /etc/myagent.conf. The agent forwards logs to my "main log server"

- on my "main log server": install the "log processor" (again, just a binary please!) + simple /etc/mylogprocessor.conf. The "log processor" shows me a nice localhost:9090/ web interface in which I can search for logs (indexed by any field I want).

Easy, no? My use case is not thousands of machines nor Terabytes of data logs per second. I just have a few machines and I don't want to deal with multi-clustered solutions or anything like that. Just 2 binaries! Does that exist?
There are plenty of other things that could indicate broadened horizons - having lived or worked abroad, for instance. And as someone that went to university, working for a living and responsibilities matures you far faster than uni ever did.

Cheaper education would be great, but we shouldn't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
Oh my goodness. I think this might be happening to me. I’ve had a semi-frequent issue where my monitor will suddenly power off and the only way I can get it to wake up is by unplugging replugging the Thunderbolt cable.

Time to run some experiments
Noting that the Github repo includes a data pipeline for instruction fine tunining.

What's the difference between this and other data pipelines like Alpaca?
Not sure if that distinction applies here. I understand that the 1st amendment doesn't protect you from a company refusing to publish what you've said - that makes sense. But this is a case of a company attempting to use commercial law (created by the government) to cause someone else to stop their speech. That seems like a simple violation of the "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof; or abridging the freedom of speech"

But idk because i'm not a lawyer and we have copyright and ip laws so clearly congress can pass SOME laws that prohibit speech. Free speech absolutism is weird to me
> book the home for a week, and invite several friends to stay for a few nights when/if they're able.

I've done this before too and it was one of the best vacations I've ever taken. I got a house for a couple of weeks and told a handful of friends they're welcome to drop in whenever but to coordinate with the others so that there's always enough beds to go around.

It meant I got a nice long vacation. And just when I would be getting bored, a new friend or two would show up.
Honestly, tradework like plumbing or electrical might be a surprisingly good qualification for entry-level congressional staff positions. Project management, scheduling, finance, and perhaps most importantly dealing with (sometimes pissed off) customers/constituents and the tradeoffs of what is possible, versus feasible, versus affordable.

Realistically a lot of the function of undergraduate degrees (in fields without specific technical education expectations) is to filter for people who have a basic ability to plan and complete work, meet requirements, etc. A huge range of entry-level jobs require these same skills. Many high-school educated office assistants have delivered larger projects under more pressure than a typical college graduate, and usually gained more applied knowledge in business/public administration while doing so.

The main function that degrees tend to offer here is just easy comparability, but I think practical experience hiring in many fields shows that college degrees do not actually reflect the level of consistency in outcomes that hiring managers wish they did. College degrees do have some advantage, and not requiring them will probably mean that you interview more candidates to find a fit, but I don't think either of those effects are as big as you might think.
In men’s jeans I’d say non-cotton materials are much more common now.
I’m not sure if they wear out faster, but they don’t feel very comfortable on my body compared to a normal pair of jeans once broken in. I’m not sure how denim weight (thinness) in a typical pair of jeans has changed in the past 20 years, but that is sort of a double edged sword. You may think, ah these will wear longer, and they will in most cases, but they’re also warmer. Heavyweight denim can be pretty sweaty.

I fabric “normal” jeans without elastane or polyester are pretty easy to find if you pay attention, they have to say their material on the tag.
This fixer would have to walk the dependency tree. What if something breaks contract in the middle, something I do not control? That sounds like a huge burden on developers with lots of risk.

Why opt out of proper dependency management?
When you're a billionaire who has material interests in court cases and you just so happen to befriend a justice on said court who has nothing in common with you from either a wealth or personal background standpoint, then you're attempting to buy influence.

There's a zero percent chance that Harlan Crow, a generationally wealthy white guy from Dallas, would ever have anything to do with Clarence Thomas, a middle class black guy from rural Georgia, except that Thomas sits on the US Supreme Court.

None.

Crow sought Thomas out to peddle his influence. Thomas accepted because (a) he believes he deserves this sort of treatment, and (b) there's nothing particularly illegal about it because of how fucked the US Constitution is with regards to high court appointments.

Thomas isn't the only one, either. He's just the one currently in the news.
NL is meant as Netherlands here and the context is that since you can't talk about growing cannabis in the open, people talk about their "vegetable" gardens or "herbs" instead. The comment you're responding to is implying that the grow tent is used to grow cannabis but he's covering it up by saying it's a vegetable garden.
Japan has about half the arable land per person as the Netherlands [1] but the Netherlands is the worlds #2 food exporter [2]. Japan could probably be more or less self-sustainable in terms of food production, if they made it a political priority, even without any fancy vertical farming. In fact, they already import less foodstuffs than German, at about 1.5 times the population [3] (to be fair, Germanys central position in the EU's free trade area makes importing food a cheap thing to do).

[1] https://data.worldbank.org/indicator/AG.LND.ARBL.HA.PC?locat...
[2] https://www.investopedia.com/financial-edge/0712/top-agricul...
[3] https://oec.world/en/profile/hs/foodstuffs
Reaction to the DEC Spam of 1978
Most bots are either search engines (of all kinds, not just your google's and bing's), competitors, or academic/fun projects.

Of the three common types, only one has a serious interest in breaking captcha's - but they also have a serious interest in not getting too much attention by abusing your services deliberately. ie. if a bot is misbehaving, it's going to get our attention, and we're going to look into what it's doing, where it came from, who operates it, etc, and possibly take some action if appropriate or available. Those actions may not necessarily be limited to the technical space either...

This is just our experience. Other industries will have their own sets of challenges to deal with.
I drove a friend's Audi and it had the best input method possible, down on the center console next to the gear shift there was a little nub joystick that allowed 8 way movement on the map, the collar of the nub rotated to cycle around the menus, and you pushed it down to click. There was a back button next to it on the console.

This actually made me consider an Audi, except for the fact that by the time I drove it this was an older model, and that input had long been superseded by a pure touchscreen.
I would rename it to suro(8) instead of sudo(8) :>
> until you have an algo that can mind read, "I'm not a spammer guys, gosh!" isn't good enough, I'm afraid.

As mentioned, it works fine in Chrome on the same computer. CloudFlare has engaged and is investigating, thanks to this HN post.
It can be made better. Alexa and Siri both suffer from fixed prompts.
ChatGPT is now integrated with Wolfram Alpha for these types of questions.

"what seems to have emerged is that “statistical AI”, and particularly neural nets, are well suited for tasks that we humans “do quickly”, including—as we learn from ChatGPT—natural language and the “thinking” that underlies it. But the symbolic and in a sense “more rigidly computational” approach is what’s needed when one’s building larger “conceptual” or computational “towers”—which is what happens in math, exact science, and now all the “computational X” fields." - Stephen Wolfram
I think this might be my favorite. Wonderful idea and execution!
Domestic Disputes in America very often involves guns now. So yeah it seems like if you were a copy and you were told to handle a bunch of yelling from an apartment upstairs in the US, you might want to go with at least a vest on, if not helmet.
Wow. I had the same issue in my previous apartment (where I was using the Marcus chair), but I could never figure it out. I just always assumed its a faulty monitor.
A large screen with bad UI design would feel cheaper.
With physical buttons and knobs, you can have finishes and smooth tactile feedbacks that make them feel luxurious. However with touchscreen UIs it is extremely hard to make it feel polished and high-quality, almost perfectly balancing efficiency and aesthetics, like apple used to do.
if a job has specific knowledge and skills requirements then it needs to have an objective test that people pass to be able to do the job.

that is the only way to eliminate the systemic discrimination that the university system and degree requirements propagate.

almost all serious jobs already have objective skills tests and licensing requirements for employment: doctors, lawyers, financial services, heavy equipment operators, etc, etc, etc.

adding degree requirements on top of those licensing requirements cannot possibly add any additional benefit but it is obviously discriminatory against many marginalized groups.
Can't help but wonder why the metamorphic testing of cockroachdb isn't called kafka...
They are providing a service, we pay for it, and they reinvest in improving the service. That’s the basic business practice.
So many of these pages displayed tables that included a column for SSNs.

Once they lock down the authorization permissions they ought to reconsider whether they really need to be displaying that data all over the place.
> It never once considered backing up and verifying that there wasn’t some misunderstanding.

Of course not; ChatGPT doesn't "consider". It doesn't think, it doesn't know. It can't identify that there was a misunderstanding of its own volition.

All ChatGPT does is use a (very sophisticated!) statistical analysis to generate text that conforms to an expectation of what a human response to a similar prompt might look like. It has been trained well in so far as it is able to produce prompts that seem like a human may have written them, but it doesn't reveal cognitive processes like "reconsidering" because it doesn't have any.
I created an IOT 3d printed, Raspberry Pi Pico powered WIFI fish feeder with a rotating dispensing carousel with an 8 food pellet capacity. I could have made it higher capacity but NJ is a restricted state (gun joke). I plan on improving it by adding battery backup and an RTC, so I can travel and be sure that my fish still get fed in case of a power outage.
Whoever has the gold -or who stands to lose same.
I'm assuming the users of Gpt4free haven't signed up to OpenAI's terms and conditions, even if they do contain language prohibiting use of these private APIs. A corporation can't unilaterally impose their TOS on the entire population (or, at least, one would hope they can't).
I purchased an air gradient. All it required was to plug the ICs into the right spot and turn it in. Came preloaded with software and everything. You can customize if you want but it works right out of the box if you buy pre soldered.
Australians via an E3 visa is also really easy
Losing Weight with Unix: How I Track All the Things
This has very strong vibes of the PDP-10's Magic Switch https://github.com/PDP-10/its/issues/1232
Wow, so I wasn't crazy - exactly the same thing used to happen to me when I got up from my Markus and the screen would turn off for a second. My hypothesis was a loose cable which I bumped slightly, but not touching the table when getting up didn't work. Not sure why, but it eventually went away.
It's not just what happens when you burn it, they spill that shit with impunity.

https://www.google.com/search?q=niger+delta+oil&tbm=isch
> What you have discovered is a recipe not for memory, but for reminder. And it is no true wisdom that you offer your disciples, but only the semblance of wisdom, for by telling them of many things without teaching them you will make them seem to know much while for the most part they know nothing. And as men filled not with wisdom but with the conceit of wisdom they will be a burden to their fellows.

Socrates in Phaedrus. I searched it with ChatGPT. Could only vaguely remember it and indeed ChatGPT found the passage. Socrates was right...
I think if people have working mobile phones then they're able to be sent electronic cash without a p2p system. Indeed, more easily than having a VPN and relevant skills to received crypto assets.

The state here owns the network, rendering all the premises of peer-to-peer systems invalid and thus all of their guarantees.

If the government there wanted to prevent receipt of USDC it well could, as much as it can completely cutoff the country from arbitary parts of the internet.

Indeed, it would seem much more inclined to do that than cut off the mobile network.

The reason it hasnt done so is preference, not that peer-to-peer systems are magic.
> Mind blown with static discharge.

You might want to look into some extra shielding for your mind. I hear having it blown by static discharge too many times can cause brain damage. ;)

In all seriousness, yeah, this is crazy! IMO, IKEA should either recall and fix, modify the design of, or stop selling these chairs. ESD can seriously damage equipment, and I could easily see there being cumulative effects from something like this.
I think part of that is reasonable. Certainly the original writers envisioned changes to the future and how would the Constitution adapt?

But whether the SCOTUS judges should write wholesale changes to the scope of the Constitution or rights that drift away from the original intent? That certainly is a matter for debate and thinking about implications.

There is a mechanism for changing the Constitution, amendments. Why should certain topics, if they rise to the level of "should have been an amendment passed by the people", be imposed by the justices?

What if the Constitution envisions that judges should interpret ambiguities at the margin, and not create whole new rights that drift from the fundamental codebase, if you will?

And then on top of that, if some new right involves significant social questions and implications, why should 9 justices (legal professionals) be the ones to say what the answer is?

As you said, these are open for adjustment. But whether the rights you seek should be created by justices versus the democratic process I think I differ with. Or at least, I see the logic of the more conservative approach to.
They can. Now you know.
Why? The company is clearly called Fly.io