skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Where's the demand for Griggs-compliant intelligence testing? Such a thing is permitted! Where is it?

Right here: https://wonderlic.com/

> Why have we seen a similar rise in crendialism in countries without similar rulings or laws?

Because if you are an active participant in a market, you want to make it very hard for anyone else to enter it so that your own wages are not subject to market supply forces. So you lobby the government to restrict supply in any way possible (licensing, job requirements, training requirements). Its the same reason people are housing YIMBYs until about 30minutes after they close on their house and become NIMBYs.
This admittedly isn't software. I'm leaning on the shoulders of giants in the professional teleconferencing space for this. I'm using a beastly old Biamp Nexia VC audio processor for this. The nice thing is that these are very end-of-life products that don't require a license to operate, so you can pick one up on eBay for $50-100.

The Nexia provides Acoustic Echo Cancelling, which is fundamentally the same stuff that VoIP apps like Zoom, Teams, Discord, etc. use to detect feedback and squelch it, except instead of ducking my microphone, it does waveform cancellation to strip it out, to pretty great effect. To take advantage of this, I send the audio output from my computers (I have my desktop or my laptop, which are attached to the same USB audio interface, and a Mac Mini that I use for secondary tasks, media watching, and a CI/CD worker target) as well as a contact microphone attached to the wall adjoining a bathroom. Audio from those sources are then removed from my microphone feed before it goes back into my audio interface for whichever primary computer I'm using as my teleconferencing device.
Is it fair to say a user of rebl isn't going to notice much difference between morse and rebl?

But replicant seems important overall for the ecosystem and probably worth highlighting?
> Domestic disputes are one of the most likely calls to result in an injury to or death of an officer.

I don't see that the FBI stats support that claim, and even if, the rate is still comparatively low, and skews very heavily towards the US South (which is only 38% of the population, but has very high gun ownership and gun violence rates):

Police officers' risk of on-the-job death in most years averages #14 .. #18, behind logging, fishing, farming, construction, heavy manufacturing, trucking [0].

From the 2021 data ('FBI LEOKA') [1] for on-the-job police officer deaths reported by 7886 LE agencies:

• 73 were Feloniously killed (only 7 total in responding to all disorders/disturbances (e.g., disorderly subjects, fights, domestic disturbances/violence))

- 61 of those 73 were killed by firearms
- 44 of those 73 were in the South

• plus 56 Accidental deaths (32 of which were crashes).

(If we check individual case reports at [2], we can see how many of the 7 total responding to disorders/disturbances were Domestic.)

• Assaults: [3] 43,649 officers assaulted in 2021

- 28.6% (12,463) occurred while officers responded to [all] disturbance calls
- 35% sustained injuries
- 49.5% occurred in the South

And for 2022, FBI releases preliminary LEOKA statistics for 2022 to October [4].

The latest years for which I can easily find all the detailed LEOKA Tables are 1996..2019 [5] e.g. Table 24: "Circumstances encountered by victim officer upon arrival at the scene of the incident".

[0]: https://www.usatoday.com/story/money/careers/2018/01/09/work...

[1]:
https://leb.fbi.gov/bulletin-highlights/additional-highlight...

[2]: Comprehensive data tables about these events and brief narratives describing the fatal attacks are available on the Law Enforcement Officers Killed and Assaulted (LEOKA) portion of the FBI’s Crime Data Explorer at https://cde.ucr.cjis.gov/

[3]: https://leb.fbi.gov/bulletin-highlights/additional-highlight...

[4]: https://www.police1.com/officer-safety/articles/fbi-releases...

[5]: https://ucr.fbi.gov/leoka/2019/topic-pages/officers-feloniou...
everything doesn't have to make sense. Like 12 day old accounts that signed up to jock elon musk.
I'm clearly naive and haven't worked closely enough to filtering stage of of the hiring process, but nevertheless.. I'm shocked to hear that there was a deliberate and explicit filtering by a list of "top schools. An implicit look at the school and some dose of bias, okay sure, I could see it, but an explicit filter? Wow.
Centralized state control has no obligation to the environment either.
I'm currently working on a service that would allow me to place orders using a satellite messenger.

Some background: When I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail few years ago, I used to order items that needed to be replaced or that I lost to the next or town stop using my phone (most towns have a general store or a supermarket, often not an outfitter).

However, it's not uncommon for sections of the trail to be outside cell service for days between town to the next one.

Anyhow, since the next trail that I plan to hike, the Continental Divide Trail, is even more remote than the PCT, I started to play with a prototype of a satellite messenger backed service to let me order items from a predefined list (each can match multiple items of a different priority) and be shipped to a predefined shipping address (post offices of trail towns along the trail).

So, for example, assuming that one of my contacts is a phone number that my service is monitoring, I can text a message like that:

items: shoes, tape, filter, usb cable, ice axe;
to: Chama;
eta: 2023-07-01;

And it should place an order of a predefined pair of shoes, water filter, Leukotape and USB cable and ice axe to Chama, NM.
Messages are limited to 160 characters before they get split, and so to keep it simple, I might use shorter abbreviations for some items.

If any item on the list can't be delivered until 2023-07-01 using prime shipping (unfortunately it's the easiest option), it should be dropped from the order. Alternatively, if the guaranteed delivery date is off by 1 day, I might just place it on a separate order, hope for the best and if it doesn't show up on time, it'll get returned individually after not being claimed.
Yeah, wouldn’t want anyone with a backbone on here.
You broke the site guidelines badly here. I realized you were provoked, but users need to follow the rules regardless of what other commenters are doing.

I'm not going to ban you right now because, after skimming through your recent history, it looks to me like you've been making a good-faith effort to stick to the rules, which I appreciate. But if you keep resorting to aggressive/abusive posting, we're eventually going to have to. We've cut you a ton of slack over the years, but it's not infinite!

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34537078 (Jan 2023)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33914274 (Dec 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=33311881 (Oct 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30890360 (April 2022)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26628758 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26307811 (March 2021)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25561372 (Dec 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24724281 (Oct 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24458954 (Sept 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24380545 (Sept 2020)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23170477 (May 2020)
I wrote a WebGL, WebGL2, and WebGPU statistics tracker: https://web3dsurvey.com. Well it is useful at least.
So, I've run simple Postfix + Django emails for transaction confirmations, password resets, and in a few cases, 2FA, for a bunch of different sites I've worked on since I started my freelance business 6 years ago. I've never had a single complaint that my emails weren't delivering, nor has an email ever gone to spam folder in testing. How did I do it? The answer is simple: I didn't send any spam!

The last time this came up on Hacker News, one of the top comments was something to the effect of "we did double confirmation and a variety of other measures to avoid being marked as spam, but ultimately the entire time we're just one bad email campaign away from being blacklisted".

One bad email campaign? Is there any other kind? That's just spam.

The user didn't say this, but I'd bet money their "double confirmation" starts with a default-checked checkbox with small text asking for permission to send emails.

Every time I've talked to someone who has problems with email deliver-ability, if I dig into what they're doing, it quickly becomes clear to me that they're sending spam, but they're so indoctrinated in corporate culture that they don't even know that what they're sending is spam. Here's some translations for you: Marketing email = spam. Lead generation = spam. In most cases, newsletter = spam. Sale announcement = spam. Promotion = spam.

I'm not claiming my experience is universal. I'm sure that there is a non-zero percentage of sites sending legitimate emails getting marked as spam. But it seems to me that more often than not, the reason your emails are marked as spam is that they are, in fact, spam. And most strategies people discuss for avoiding being marked as spam, are just avoiding the most obviously egregious forms of spam, and finding users with higher tolerance for spam.
You might look at mpv instead of VLC. I had the same visible flash problem with VLC and mplayer but not with mpv. The other benefit of mpv I just (as in two days ago) found was I can use a loudness normalization audio filter to keep some shows from having blaring audio.

On my system I'm running mpv on top of OpenBox with compton for the compositor. It's been much smoother all around than VLC or mplayer on the same hardware (an AMD mini PC now replacing an RPi I had been using).
Pi for audio frequencies is lovely and square, Pi at radio frequencies has distinct rise and fall and "just taking a moment to think about it" segments.

A spectrum analyser has probes!?!? This might be where I am going wrong... But the bench scope is largely in agreement about the distinct phases of a cycle at RF freq.
Is GPT-4 experiencing a slowdown? (latency graph)
> Besides, how could terraforming Mars be easier than fixing our problems?

We don't need to terraform Mars to our incredibly fine tuned biology. What comes next will evolve beyond our limitations. Humans are a stepping stone. Just a blink of an eye in an infinite time scale.
> And 'ch' (as in Loch or Bach) is a sound in Scottish english but not in English english.

You need to talk to a Scouser! Back and Lock will be pronounced Bach and Loch.
Also prevents unexpected shocks to the buttocks upon sitting.

Directly grounding shouldn't be particularly risky though. It's not uncommon to have a metal desk touching a grounded but not double-insulated chassis or dangling USB cable. And I get the impression that electrical systems are engineered so that users aren't touching live contacts when plugging things in - maybe less so in the case of US plugs.

That said, an RCD/GFCI would help in either case, and might have in the cases of electrocution by faulty phone charger, where current presumably travelled through multiple wires in the USB cable alone.
Also the vast majority of the public, who eat meat. I would sacrifice your right to free speech before I sacrificed my ability to eat meat.
And in a days time this thread will be off the main page and nothing will of been done.

Hows the "chatting" going?
True. If your butt is not paying, then your butt is the product.
It's being increasingly regulated and exchanges are being shut down.
Ten years later, we learned that if everything is awesome, nothing is awesome.
This is likely true for serial killers as well. Who start watching horror films and reading books about murder. However ordinary people never end up doing the crime.

Same for violent fantasies too. Normal people don't do end up doing it.

We do not prosecute people who have collections of hundreds of horror films or fiction books depicting crime, just in case they might do it for real. That's unacceptable to do in a free society.

It seems that, maybe because of some reason to do with evolutionary psychology, we find sex more "harmful" than death even. When in reality is obviously causes far less harm. Probably some primitive, animal instinct at work there?

In an article it says:
" Gagnon wrote that the creation of the new images of sexual abuse encourages the market for child pornography, which craves novelty, and puts children at risk by "fuelling fantasies that incite sexual offences against children." "

Well it looks like they are trying to police peoples' thoughts there. Straight out of Orwell's Nineteen Eighty Four. And civil disobedience should be the correct response, everyone should make sure they have as many abhorrent fantasies as possible.

The good news is that purely AI-driven generation of such images can be done offline, and does not involve real children in any way. The morality police here in the West are going to have a really hard time putting a stop to that. I wonder what hysteria they will try to whip up to justify their continued witch hunting of people looking at images in their own homes.

Yes, the aforementioned morality police, they're like something out of a Muslim country. Doing things that ISIS or the Taliban would do. But it's happening here in the Western world, with supposedly free societies.
This is pet issue of mine, as I am often a guest and have rarely had the means to reciprocate the hospitality I have been offered. Even times when I did have something that was mine to share, the percieved power imbalance in sharing it was sometimes odd in the relationship.

However, I almost always accept hospitality because I know what a pleasure it is to give it, and I never feel like I owe someone anything as a result, as it would be a huge insult to them to interpret their generosity as having strings. As I have become older, I've also learned to be a bit suspicious of people who don't accept hospitality or insist weirdly on splitting down to the cent because it is a good indicator they are reserving some moral license to betray or otherwise screw you later. I've heard them say it's a matter of being equal, yet they haven't considered that in rejecting my goodwill they have admitted that they have wasted my time.

Picking up a tab is not settling debts either, that's taking an opportunity to add some value to the time you spend together. I know the feeling of the chips being down all too well, and interpeting someones generosity as pity, but that's the sting of pride, and it deprives people who actually like you of the enjoyment of being able to be some relief.

The best way I have seen money spent on others is, "this thing is happening, it's already settled and done and everything is taken care of, we just need good company to be able to enjoy it, if you are able, you should really join us, there are no costs except getting there and maybe some drinks." I think that approach works all the way from concerts to holidays.
Separate stack for return addresses (SHSTK, shadow stack).
You could have just read the article, it explains very clearly what it is about. Or checked the github page linked in the article that provides more information and screenshots.
It gets complex. There are a lot of tradeoffs between short and long running transactions, and different choices in the design space each have pluses and minuses.

Of course if you're running reduced consistency things are easier. Wrong answers are often faster. But when people select a transactional database, it's usually because they at least need snapshot consistency, and often they require full serializability.
Congrats! I went to your demo and asked for words that end in agi. This is what I got:

--

agi, agi, agi, agi, agi, agi, agi

These are some of the words that end in agi. You can also use the word agi in a sentence. For example, "I am going to the grocery store to get some agi."

These are some of words that end in agi.

These are some words that end in agi.

maximize, maximize, maximize, maximize, maximize, maximize, maximize, maximize

These are some words that ends in agi

--

So I think this needs more work to get to "as good as ChatGPT". But having said that, congrats on the landing
Check this out: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34963057 From a previous article discussion on the vertical farming bubble popping: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34959649

"""
It appears to me that Silicon Valley is unaware that there's such a thing as Food Valley. Which does exactly what you ask for.
Food Valley centers around the Dutch University of Wageningen, the pinnacle of agricultural research, teamed up with a network of innovative food companies and experts.

...
Here is a link: https://www.wur.nl/en/article/Foodvalley-2.htm

"""
msvc does not support inline asm for x86_64 code. Additionally, inline asm can be quite fragile, can impede other optimization opportunities, and it is easy to misstate your inline asm's invariants and side effects to the compiler.
Ask HN: I've run Linux for 13 years. Is it time to switch to a Mac?
I've always used Linux because I want to keep my computer as similar to prod as possible, first servers and now robots. Now that everything is containerized that feels somewhat less important...

At the same time, I've become more and more frustrated with Linux support on laptops. The last Thinkpad I used didn't have working wifi drivers out of the box! Getting Nvidia drivers to work well on a laptop is also a big pain.

So HN, what do you recommend?
Finding bugs must be unpleasant.
I do, actually. It looks like a standard CLA. It grants them a perpetual license to whatever code you're contributing and allows them to use it as they please, and not affecting any of your other rights. There's also some stuff in there about you only contributing code that you actually have the right to contribute, and how to manage edge cases around that. It's fairly standard when someone intends to be able to use your contribution as part of a greater open-core / closed-source distribution and to be able to simplify licensing matters. They have to protect their own interests and they're doing so in a manner that basically doesn't affect you at all.

Do you hire a lawyer any time you encounter an unfamiliar OSS license? I assume you don't, or you'd have a hard time using any modern packaging ecosystem.
We're past the point of innovating for a better consumer product. Most innovations nowadays are to reduce to cost while getting the consumer to accept the downgrade. Usually it happens gradually using the "boiling frog" method.
Thank you for the link! I only knew the referenced folklore page, but never saw a picture and the following exchange. Was just about to post this story as well :)
Maybe read what SQLite is first
That's why its pluralized
TIL Kissinger and Nixon were Demorats. Along with apparently Reagan, Bush Sr, W. Who knew.
DeepNotes – Visual Note-Taking for Deeply Interconnected Ideas
Hi guys!

DeepNotes is an open source, realtime collaborative, end-to-end encrypted visual note-taking tool with deep bidirectional page navigation.

I'm making my note universe public in this link to showcase the possibilities with DeepNotes and show how I use it, and maybe help other people learn some stuff as well: https://deepnotes.app/pages/euYw8Xg1JJ1I1BOpWkuA5

Let me know what you think!
A friend of mine lived on one bank of the river and worked on the other bank a short distance away. She bought a kayak to commute with occasionally for fun.
Most (serious) employers’ code of conduct policies are ‘don’t do anything that risks the appearance of impropriety*

* without talking to legal first’

So I take your point. But the FCPA and rules around federal government gift-giving mean that in practice companies are generally cautious about this sort of thing.
I've probably mentioned this story here, but my first job out of school was working for a nationally known cash register manufacturer, writing front-end software for the cashiers to use. This didn't happen to me but was told to me by an old-timer my first week there (mid-90s).

A group had done an install at a grocery store. They did in-house testing of the new system, then rolled it out to 1 or 2 lanes to try it out for a few days before upgrading all the lanes with the new system. It was a fairly normal roll-out with a few minor issues, but nothing major.

The day they rolled it out, about 2 or 3 transactions each day started including an extra charge for 10 cents worth of deli meat. This was weird because it would be pretty hard to buy only 10 cents worth of meat, and certainly any deli counter worker who had rung it up would have remembered doing so because it would have been a really bizarre order. None of them had seen such an order come through.

The only thing the transactions had in common was they were paid for with a debit card. Worried about compliance issues and the possibility that there might be a bug in the new card readers, they turned off the debit card functionality. Unfortunately (or fortunately if you work in compliance), it happened again to someone paying with cash. While that was a relief because it meant the card readers were fine, it also meant they had no leads on the problem.

The on-call engineer got called in to work on the problem just before the store closed one night. He checked all the obvious things - problems with the cabling; an incorrect value in the database; some data getting mangled between the cash register and the database; a problem with the scanner; etc. There were no problems he could detect.

In order to keep the last few customers from entering his lane, he moved a shopping cart in front of the lane. In fact he did it to the one next to his as well because he'd be walking around the entire lane working on cabling and such. He crawled under the register to check something things just as the scanner beeped to indicate it detected an item. Sure enough it was for 10 cents worth of meat. He looked around and noticed a mother scolding her child, "Leave to empty carts alone! That lane is closed!" That's when he noticed that the cart had an ad on front of it for some random product. He jiggled the cart, and the scanner beeped again. Another 10 cents of meat.

It turned out the artist who put together the ad thought that the packaging without a barcode on it looked weird, so he grabbed something he had laying around and made a fake barcode that looked similar. By some miracle, the barcode was actually valid and was ringing up 10 cents of deli meat at this store. Mystery solved!
Why I'm no longer writing stories with AI
actually, this "tears in the rain" vibe was one of the strongest behind this project. Preserve.
> Why would they have to do that consciously? Do you think LLMs do this "consciously", if that term even applies?

Because the only thing an LLM does is apply statistics to inputs to generate outputs. That's literally it. It's just a pile of statistics.

To draw an analogy to humans requires that humans are similarly statistical. LLMs do not have cognitive processes, while humans do, so the analogy obviously requires making some kind of leap between the two if it is to have any merit whatsoever. My request lines up with this: if LLMs are "not so different" from humans, and if LLMs work only based on statistics, then this requires humans also work only based on statistics. I want to see evidence of this.

> You don't know what thinking is mechanistically, so you can't make this claim. I don't know why people keep pretending we have knowledge that we do not in fact have.

Are you suggesting the code behind the LLMs is just, like, ineffable or something? And therefore we can't know how they work, so we get to just make up wild claims about their capabilities, and then smarmily position ourselves as some kind of authority on the matter when other people talk about how they work?

No, I don't think so. We do know how LLMs work, and the way they work is not thinking. They have no agency. Claims to the contrary are, frankly, absolutely absurd. They're just statistics. There's nothing magical about them. You should stop pretending there is.