skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Igor Danchenko, the Steele primary subsource charged with (and acquitted of) lying to the FBI, was paid $220K by the FBI as a confidential human source. This was paid after the FBI knew Danchenko lied to them. As the Durham Investigation proceeded, Durham learned “the FBI proposed making continued future payments to Danchenko, totaling more than $300,000, while [Durham] was actively investigating this matter.” The FBI, in effect, was seeking to influence a key witness who would later face criminal charges.

> The FBI’s reasons for paying Danchenko were certainly curious. Interviews with Durham’s office revealed: “the FBI's Executive Assistant Director for National Security, made clear that they were not even able to accurately describe the value or contributions of Danchenko that would justify keeping him open, much less making hundreds of thousands of dollars in payments to him.”

I would like to apply for the vacant 'confidential human source' role at the FBI. Unreal.
I'm with you til the last paragraph.

Why does the age of consent just keep going up? How long before we have laws regulating age gaps for full grown adults? At what age does a person get entrusted by the All Knowing Democratic State to make all their own personal decisions for themselves?

Maybe the real explanation is that the age is arbitrary, a 17 year old is most likely as capable as an 18 year old of making these decisions, is not a child, and that the word "coercion" here applies because she was isolated on an island by someone who traffics in human beings for the express purpose of trafficking her. Of course this position is unfashionable, but it has the miraculous benefit of identifying it as enslavement even if the woman had been 50, as well as allowing people to make their own personal decisions without infantilizing them.
I know there's a lot of concerns about generative voices, but it's a shame the only solution is 'insist on a live recording of random phrases'. For those whose voices have already degenerated, but who have hours of recordings available from historical sources (e.g. speech therapy sessions), it's too late to ask them to record something fresh.

Don't get me wrong, it's fantastic to see the tech being used this way. My Dad has lost most of his speech due to some kind of aphasia-causing condition and if this had been available just a year or two ago it could've been a big help for him; it's reassuring that others earlier in the journey will benefit from this.
Google Fiber Is Looking for Organizations to Test Its 20-Gig Internet Speeds
France opens investigation into Apple over 'planned obsolescence' for iPhones
> whether that's a "leftist" or a "MAGA republican"

Funny enough, there are not symmetrical. MAGA republican is a rather specific extreme subgroup with own set of believes and symbols - red Maga hat. Moderate Republicans do not self identify as Maga.

Meanwhile, "leftist" is rather large group with no real definition. It includes people who are vaguely for social system or just democrats or just don't treat LGBT as enemies. It is roughly anyone left of right wing.

But, in a need to create symmetry, you write about these two as if they were the same. And that is exactly an issue with knee jerk centrists. They end up being damagingly and unfairly wrong in their assessments.
A lot of people buy Android. But very few people buy Pixel:

> In a world dominated by iPhones and Samsung phones, Google isn't a contender. Since the first Pixel launched in 2016, the entire series has sold 27.6 million units, according to data by analyst firm IDC -- a number that's one-tenth of the 272 million phones Samsung shipped in 2021 alone. Apple's no slouch, having shipped 235 million phones in the same period. [1]

[1] https://www.cnet.com/tech/mobile/why-google-pixels-arent-as-...
IBM Has Killed Opensource.com, Rejecting the Open Source Way
Let ChatGPT know that arguing from etymology is an exceptionally weak technique that typically yields quite limited insight.
Everyone needs to be able to fail sometimes. You don't grow and learn from nothing but successes.

Failure is an essential part of life and learning.
“Parkinson links strongly from widely used chemical Tricholoroethylene”
Compared to a lot of DAWs like Reaper, Ableton is actually convention over configuration! It doesn't offer that many preferences / options..
Google Is Bringing Zoom, Teams and Webex Meetings to Android Auto
Enforcing this is easy. The top high performance GPU manufacturers (Nvidia, AMD, Intel) are all incorporated in the U.S.
Water expands when it freezes, in my head thermos is an extremely rigid structure, how do you stop it from rapturing?
Financial transactions are held to a higher standard (i.e. there's a bunch of laws around them) than device access. That said, you can make your device passcode as complex as your Apple ID password if it's a tradeoff you're willing to make.
> Users who are sensitive to rapid animations can automatically pause images with moving elements, such as GIFs, in Messages and Safari.

That’s so nice. I hate when stuff moves in my vision when I’m trying to read something.
All of our work is ephemeral. Software development is just more ephemeral than most work. 40 years ago when I first got into this biz I didn't notice this. Now I notice ephemerality everywhere. You need to make peace with it. The things you're working on now probably won't be used or useful in 5 years. An architect can drive by a building they designed and take pride in that building for decades... but even that building will eventually come down. It just happens a lot faster in tech.
Fly under the radar as long as you can; if you hear from Cloudflare (even sales), you're in trouble.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=34639212#34639763
Like siblings said : it's not a good benchmark, as forests were not exploited as much before.

In fact, almost all forests are exploited in some way or another. Some recently protected primal old growth will take a few centuries to recover.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old-growth_forest

"The world has 1.11 billion ha of primary forest remaining.[when?] Combined, three countries (Brazil, Canada, and Russia) host more than half (61 percent) of the world's primary forest. The area of primary forest has decreased by 81 million ha since 1990, but the rate of loss more than halved in 2010–2020 compared with the previous decade."
Buffett Exits TSMC While Hedge Funds Coatue, Tiger Global Buy
It is nonsense, yet a similar thing happened recently with texting

Before Twilio et al, if you wanted to text a lot of your customers automatically, you had to pay thousands of dollars in setup and recurrent fees to rent a shortcode number

But then, with Twilio et al, you don’t need a shortcode anymore

The telcos told the regulators this would create endless spam, so they would regulate it themselves, and created a consortium to “end spam”

Now you are forced to get a license from them, pay a monthly fee, get audited, and they still let pretty much all the spam through, while they also randomly block a certain % of your messages, even if you are fully compliant
I'm curious as to why the author thinks that the fltk-rs rust bindings to fltk are "practically unusable." I've been using them and while there is a definite learning curve they seem complete, stable, and performant. Also the author is extremely helpful and responsive!
Those Kotlin issues are common when a lot of engineers from one language switch to another at the same time.

We used to see the same thing with companies that had moved C engineers over to Java. Lots of weirdly overcomplicated C constructs. Meanwhile the newbs who only knew Java were writing FactoryFactoryFactoryImpls. :facepalm
SQLite file uploads: share and query them with Postgres
your comment reads to me as totally disconnected to the OP, whose concern relates to using the appearance of intelligence as a scare tactic to build a regulatory moat.
I guess I've been lucky.
So communicate. Have guiding principles for the company. Be open about the choices you make and why you make them. Listen and respond to criticism.
Public toilet model of maintaining a codebase
I made something just for writing your congress person / senator, using generative AI ironically: https://vocalvoters.com/
Picasso was worth $250 million at his death in 1973 dollars. 1.6 billion in 2022 dollars from selling his own paintings.

Painters at one point were rock stars. Just like today's rock stars are social media stars and not a group of guys playing guitar/bass/drum/vocals.

Artistic mediums have their moment in time and then become niche, historical and retro once their time has passed.

Marble sculpture is no less amazing than in times past. That mediums time in the sun though passed a long time ago.

Just like if you go to an art gallery that arranges the paintings in period rooms, it completely obvious when photography became an up and coming medium and its effect on painting at the time.
Its certainly in the soil and groundwater - but why would it be in the air?
That's not much in the way of news. That's just typical Chinese propagandistic bluster.

You could even regard it as good news. The US is sending arms to Taiwan. China doesn't like it. That's good - it means it's effective aid to Taiwan, effective enough that China notices and complains.
It's even better when a family member loses the ability to speak. Someone with a stroke may still be able to type words and this can help them deal with the frustration of not being heard.
One of the biggest challenges I face is effective note-taking and recalling information that I believe I've 'grasped'. Take for instance, the second video in the 'NN Zero to Hero' series, where I may spend around six hours to fully comprehend the content. This involves pausing, researching additional materials, and rewatching certain sections to enhance my understanding.

While I have a sense of achieving near-total understanding of each component, can I confidently say I've mastered the whole topic? For instance, given unlimited time, could I replicate the functionality of 'makemore' without resorting to any online searches?

The answer, quite likely, is no.

Lately, I've been attempting to integrate Anki into my learning process. It becomes particularly helpful during a second review of a subject, where I can identify crucial information for recall. Additionally, using tools like ChatGPT, I can clear up any misunderstandings before making each flashcard.
AI being a primary example, and that's probably the thing most people are renting these for nowadays anyways.
https://www.cbsnews.com/sanfrancisco/news/toxic-chemical-fou...

> The Oakland Unified School district announced the temporary closure of the McClymonds to test for the chemical tricloroethylene (TCE), which was found in groundwater under the campus.

> "This is West Oakland and so there is a history of environmental injustice, of racial injustice that happens in this community. So these are places where there are leaks, there are dumps, there are things like that that are not healthy for our community," said Jumoke Hinton Hodge, Oakland Board of Education District 3 Director.

> McClymonds has recently seen a handful of students and former students develop cancer, including the high-profile cases Darryl Aikens, a McClymonds football player who died of leukemia a month after graduating in 2017, as well as 2018 graduate Ramone Sanders, who died of cancer last fall. Sanders was playing football at Laney College when he broke his leg and it was discovered he had bone cancer that spread to his lungs.
"On a very fundamental level the LLM is a function from context to the next token but when you generate text there is a state as the context gets updated with what has been generated so far."

Its output is predicated upon its training data, not user defined prompts.
> You can always tell when code was written by someone who’s arrived fresh from Java or C++.

AS3 and Flex was practically an attempt by these people to take over the language. Thankfully that failed.

TS is great by comparison!
3% yield is not telling the full story. Apple's 5yr total return is 31% annualized which is pretty decent. https://www.financecharts.com/stocks/AAPL/growth/total-retur...
It lasts in water for 150 years. It kills everything, causes eggshell thining (birds, fish, etc).

It is fat soluble and accumulates through the food chain.
> That's just typical Chinese propagandistic bluster.

I would agree; except that propagandistic bluster sometimes materializes. Mein Kampf was published in 1925, and it and every speech he gave was "propagandistic bluster" until 1939...

Or, well, take Putin. Lots of "propagandistic bluster" there until last year...
Egos-2000: A minimal operating system in 2K LOC
I am implying that there's evidence that more people like it and are willing to pay for it than people not finding it upto the mark. Yes, that's the definition of a successful software.
Last thing I want from an AI is to reason like humans.
My one of the biggest expectation from AI is to decrease dependence on human reasoning.
In case anyone wants an easy way to make nice, clear ice fairly easy in a home setting.

https://www.wintersmiths.com/ - These guys make gadgets that you can put in your freezer and get very clear ice. Melt very well/evenly.

You can also find details of their latest machine on kickstarter, which is a work in progress.

edit: I have bought most of their products over the years, starting with their first ice-baller. And supported the phantom kickstarter, and their latest one.
"I have a TV set right behind me displaying porn 24/7"
I usually upvote these links, but for The Guardian this shouldn't be needed - they show you a banner "encouraging" you to support them, but that's not an actual paywall, you can still read the article.
I have TAoE (but probably 2nd Ed, as I’ve had it for some years) and it is both educational and very dense.

That said, I bought “Learning the Art of Electronics: A Hands-On Lab Course” and really like it. There’s a good bit of practical, accessible knowledge there. Imho worth checking out for anyone who likes the idea of TAoE but finds it just a bit deep.

FWIW, my formal education is CS with a dose of digital electronics thrown in. For anything analog, I’ll try and find existing circuits close to what I need.
In most of the world prostitution is either legal or tolerated and not really looked down upon. You might be right that it is an opinion, but you're wrong that it is not held by the majority globally. Most people throughout the world would agree with the person you're responding to.
Absolutely, in terms of speed.

Even with something as simple as dictation, when iOS did it over the cloud, it was limited to 30 seconds at a time, and could have very noticeable lag.

Now that dictation is on-device, there's no time limit (you can dictate continuously) and it's very responsive. Instead of dictating short messages, you can dictate an entire journal entry.

Obviously it will vary on a feature-by-feature basis whether on-device is even possible or beneficial, but for anything you want to do in "real time" it's very much ideal to do locally.

Edit in response to your edit: nope, on privacy specifically I don't think most users care at all. I think it's all about speed and the existence of features in the first place.
Fleet-Wide Refactoring at Spotify
This would give me less personal context than the original.
Wasn’t AirBnB glorified couch-surfing initially?

It was setup as live with a local who will show you around

It came to be because hotel stock sucked for elastic demand: big conferences and festivals
Isn’t akka basically a Javafied version of OTP?
100x is nothing these days. Now the ratio is 399:1 or thereabouts.. and often even higher. Of course, there is no perfect ratio - but there is a point at which it becomes obscene. It varies from organization to organization.
I use a system76 for personal use and an iPhone. My Apple accounts for personal and work are separate. I also use a vpn on all personal devices and use Firefox for browsing.
Thanks! I tried my best to make the mobile experience feel natural.
How do hourly employees clock in? Isn't that the same as "badging in" for an HR function?
Quite. Meanwhile on the rest of the internet people are gleefully promoting AI as a means of firing every single person who writes words for a living. Or draws art.
That sounds like a good place to work!
Of course it predict the next token. Every single person on earth knows that so it's not worth repeating at all.

As for the fact that it gets things wrong sometimes - sure, this doesn't say it actually learned every algorithm (in whichever model you may be thinking about). But the nice thing is that we now have this proof via category theory, and it allows us to both frame and understand what has occurred, and to consider how to align the systems to learn algorithms better.
> Another example: multidimensional arrays. In C/C++ it [...] is not flat memory space (and thus for grid applications very slow)

Can you clarify what you mean by this? A naively defined multidimensional array,

float foo[32][32] = ...

is stored in sizeof(float) * 32 * 32 = 4096 consecutive bytes of memory. There's no in-built support for array copies or broadcasting, I'll give you that, but I'm still trying to understand what you mean by "not flat memory space".
i am a bit confused. rent control in germany works, but then you are arguing against it?

actually i disagree that simply allowing to build enough property will work. businesses tend to charge as much as they can, and if we want actual competition in rent prices, then the supply would have to vastly exceed the demand and not just meet it. with all the best intentions, that is not going to happen, and i don't think it is desirable either.

excessive prices need to be prevented either way.
If it's standard, what other companies are using the same invasive technologies?

If it's for compliance, where are the written rules saying they have to use these invasive technologies?
Ask HN: What if Wikipedia launched a chat interface? Would you use it?
AI is not at the stage of smartphones, it’s at the stages of the early transistor. It will grow because we have the data and the hardware to make it grow. But it appears that human intelligence is on a reverse trend, which is why it’s so easy to sell the idea that ai is intelligent and all of the bad scifi around it.
Ask HN: Why is it so hard to stop prompts from leaking?
Why can't companies just do something like:
```
if (response.contains(MY_PROMPT)) {
response = "I'm afraid I can't do that, Dave";
}
```
I knew a guy who served tens of terabytes of uncached content per month using Cloudflare's free plan. Cloudflare reps tried to call him for meetings "to discuss his usage and satisfaction with cloudflare" multiple times and he avoided them for years. He stopped for other reasons but afaik they never banned him.

I expect these rules are a formality to ban users like him.
Such a great scene:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MI9_cLu5-JY
Saudi Arabia's Public Investment Fund Increases Stake in EA
Agreed, which is why Facebook was so devastated by opt in tracking…
In case someone wants to skip a click:

> Artists must be allowed to go through bad periods! They must be allowed to do bad work! They must be allowed to get in a mess! They must be allowed to have dud experiments! They must also be allowed to have periods where they repeat themselves in a rather aimless, fruitless way before they can pick up and go on. The kind of attention that they get now, the kind of atmosphere of excitement which attends today the creation of works of art, the way that everything is done too much in the public eye, it’s really too much. The pressures are of a kind which are anti-creative.

I think the same applies to developing technology. Certainly resonates with me and the phases I go through.
> This map (from 2015) shows sites with the most TCE groundwater contamination.

But note there was more than TCE at those superfund sites.
A few considerations: 1) you don't need to fully mitigate the sea-level rise for this to be of value. Even a few cm might make a difference on the margin for certain areas. 2) The projects themselves might be a value if we really could increase the productive value of currently arid parts of the land with net-positive environmental impact, so the sea-level rise doesn't matter or let's us do the project without worrying about sea-level drop.

If we really had too-cheap-to-meter power for desalinization, then these projects might start to make sense, but it seems too soon to me.
Inconsistent datetime storage has been a consistent issue for me providing cross-provider and cross-application/framework support for SQLite.
that is true for front end dev.
not so much for back end.
SQL, Oracle, Sql Server, Teradata, Data Warehousing are still used after more than 20 years. Skills are easily transferable to Snowflake, Big Query, Azure ...(whatever it's called at this moment)
Does the law say they have to use more invasive technologies than necessary?
> huge trash heap of technologies that ended up being useless except for lessons learned from failure.

The joke is, even the lessons will deprecate at some point, either when younger generations, who did not learn/understand them yet, will enter the playing field, or because the progress of technology will invalidate the lessons.

Nothing is really meant to stay.
I journal infrequently. Used to use physical journals and still do occasionally, mostly use the journal plugin in Zim (https://zim-wiki.org/) now, plus git for edit history. I also use Zim for non-dated notes.

I have a poor memory, so I like having minor life events documented, and documenting them probably helps me remember them in the first place. It's also good for working through and solidifying whatever I've been thinking about lately.
I think I'd rather just eliminate the ringing portion of a phone call (when I have airpods in) and instead just let a trusted list of contacts talk directly into my ear (1-way) until I "answer" and open up a 2-way channel.
Isn't open source just a way for big tech to get a bunch of free programming done for them.
Docker to build a book is definitely something new. Not that it doesn't make some sense just something I've never seen.
I haven't gotten super deep into it yet, but https://nnfs.io/ has been good in my opinion. The book slowly replaces written and explained code with numpy equivalents to keep the examples fast. Plus the accompanying animations are also useful. I would be curious what others think on it too.
I can only speak for my experience but there was little discussion of events elsewhere in Europe, let alone the rest of the world, with the exception of very significant events involving the UK military such as the world wars or the withdrawal from India and even they were told from a very UK centric viewpoint.

Quite frankly, I think learning about say the conquistadors, the Ottoman Empire, the Portuguese empire, asian history etc and how that has gone on to shape the world we have today would probably be of more use than the amount of time spent dissecting the personalities of past monarchs.
We adopted a previous step to wireframing in Z1, a system that allows us to see the map of an app from a bird’s eye view to achieve the best results. Now we are sharing a blockframes starter kit on Figma for you. Use it to boost your design process!
I mean, it will? Not universally, but for the specific products I work on we use additional labor when we include AI-enabled features (due to installing and wiring processors and sensors).

I think that that the sorts of AI that smaller companies make will be more likely to create jobs as opposed to getting rid of them since they are more likely to be integrated with physical products.
Because it is volatile.
Ledger users express concerns over new phrase recovery feature
Ha.

From a UK perspective this looks like the opposite of gentrification (rich folk moving into the inner city), it's more like cookie cutter bargain basement build.