skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes I've been banned from other platforms for doing similar things. There are certain posts that are just obviously fake and when you contact them it's clear that they are totally fake. The old adage was the squeaky wheel gets the grease but in the modern internet age the squeaky wheel just gets cut off because these platforms have no interest in actually eliminating fake posts or scams.

You have to realize that they profit at least in some way by having these posts and more of them the better. It makes their platforms seem like it's bigger than it is, drives revenue for them. So their effort in cleaning up bots and scam accounts and other things is only to the level where those things drive legitimate users away. So if that threshold is not met yet they don't care and they would rather have you not report anything because someone likely has to review that. Then you get flagged not because the quality of your reports is wrong but because they're tired of hearing from you.

This is exactly why we cannot have nice things. Because these platforms are not about giving us nice things they're about giving us the minimally necessary thing to keep our eyeballs on them.
I want one. This thing can run LLaMA 64b int8 easily.

Meta is going to use it in datacenters, Much more efficient than NVidia generic GPUs. They are serious about putting AI everywhere.
Read it later the hard way
This thing is easily defeated with a small amount of software and tactics.
How the 'junk science' of parental alienation infiltrated American family courts
Absolutely not. @exabrial nailed it. Any modern IDE used for Java development does incremental compilation so fast you can't even notice it happening. Now if you trigger a full build of your project using Maven or Gradle or something, then maybe. But that would largely be true using any compiled language.
This is good news...
The latest I heard about Havana is they believe that to not be the case any more. There are however crowd control versions for anti-riot purposes. They induce a burning feeling on the skin without permanent damage, supposedly.
GPS is jammable, I'd assume that the base with the fancy microwave anti-air system is capable of denying it and you'd want to be capable without it anyways.

Guidance via camera has been a thing for a long time: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TERCOM#DSMAC,_Digital_Scene_Ma... I don't know if it's available open source (or commercially), but I don't imagine it would take me (or any other reasonably skilled programmer) long to develop it these days. Satellite imagery is freely available from google maps if you have nothing better.

Near(ish) peer adversaries (the kind that can afford drone swarms) are definitely capable of the guidance part.
Sure, but that doesn't mean everyone who's overweight has high blood pressure and therefore should go on "shit your brains out" medication.

EDIT: Also, to my previous anecdote, despite being the skinny one compared to my partner, I actually do have several heart problems! (Thank you inflammatory diseases.) But you wouldn't guess that by looking at me, because weight is not a 1:1 indicator of health.
Airport is probably a very different environment, though? I imagine that if you have a military installation, you don't mind blasting some birds with RF every now and then (and the birds probably don't mind either).
That is not Apple’s stated design at all. If you read Apple’s passkeys security document, it claims that the private keys are synchronized with iCloud and are recoverable following the loss of all devices. Non-exportable passkeys using the TPM is an HN myth.
A lot of cities are worse than 10 years ago.
I disagree. The problem started when people doing the flows and storyboards weren't informed or didn't understand the tech side. When waterfall was detailed plans written by people in the know, it was great, but only as long as the engineers (programmers) actually read the design doc. But they stopped doing that and insisted on making it up themselves as they went instead. Good product developers can establish proper blueprints, but a good product developer needs to understand both what the user does AND what the programmer does. Then they can articulate a vision and proper information architecture and functional specifications that make doing the work as simple as following a blueprint/design document. Meanwhile, Agile has become this bloated mess with dedicated roles for everything that a producer or project manager used to do, and the project manager has been reduced to someone just tracking progress instead of informed architects beholden to programmers who refuse to read the well thought out and planned design doc.

Before there was agile, there was managing complex design projects by Dubberly. https://www.dubberly.com/articles/managing-complex-design-pr...

Such a process made sure all the appropriate questions were answered up front most important, what's the actual problem you're trying to solve, not what do you THINK the problem is you're trying to solve. In part I think programmers wanted to be more than just programmers. It's like a construction worker deciding the architect doesn't know what they're doing so they have to be the ones designing the house as they build it. Which may be true if the architect is an artist and not an engineer.
Assuming traffickers only have girls
My theory is it's a classic cargo cult situation: "If we just do the same thing this successful startup did (we'll ignore that they were doing it in a different context for different reasons, and ignore the ones that did the same thing but weren't successful) then we too will have the same explosive success!"
Just lite the most common password manager is the one built into chrome and ios, right?
> it was said these chatbots cost way more to run than they make profit

Well if it's running on Azure and using massively overpriced Nvidia data center GPUs I can't imagine anything else would be possible. Then again it's not like there any incentive for OpenAI to increase efficiency as long they get 'free' Azure credits (and it's not like the real cost for MS is anything close to what they are supposedly investing into OpenAI. IRRC that 10 billion was mainly not in actual money)
PSA: Supabase Auth is based on their fork [0] of Netlify's Gotrue [1]. If you are migrating out of Supabase completely you can just drop in Gotrue for authentication.

[0]: https://github.com/supabase/gotrue

[1]: https://github.com/netlify/gotrue
Training an eagle is expensive and time consuming compared with the swarm. A few explodey drones and an expensive eagle fleet is toast. We’re talking months to years to gain a single eagle’s trust

[edit] Disclaimer: I volunteer at a raptor conservancy. Please don’t propagate the belief that eagles or other birds of prey are an effective counter-drone strategy at scale
It's the same for all F1 cars, as there is no radiator fan and the airflow from driving is required to keep the car cool. you actually can't idle for too long or you'll overheat. you also have to cool the brakes after running or there is a fire risk.

not sure about so-called prototype [ie, lemans] cars, but i do suspect those cars have radiator fans. Even many (most?) passenger cars keep the electric fan on the radiator going, and water pump circulating, after you shut the engine down. it looks like the 2 leaf blowers in the front are for the brakes and the one in the top is for the engine.

Of course in F1 they have custom enclosures made to fit and lock into the radiator openings. It is funny to see these do look like bog standard off the shelf leaf blowers.

I used to use an e-go leaf blower with a fabricated attachment for the air intake.
No one forced you to use the private mode!
Generally not: https://www.michigan.gov/egle/Newsroom/MI-Environment/2020/0...
Yes, you pay per second. But, per other notes, this is slated to save at most 2ms. Realistically, it won't save that much, as they are still doing a sort, not completely skipping it, but lets assume qsort does get this down to 0 and they somehow saved it all. That is trivially 500 boots before you see a second. Which... is a lot of reboots. If you have processes that are spawning off 500 instances, you would almost certainly see better savings by condensing those down to fewer instances.

So, realistically, assuming that Colin is a decently paid software engineer, I find it doubtable the savings from this particular change will ever add up to mean anything even close to what it costs to have just one person assigned to it.

Now, every other change they found up to this point may help sway that needle, but at this point, though 7% is a lot of percent, they are well into the area where savings they are finding are very unlikely to ever be worth finding.

Edit: I saw that qsort does indeed get it into basically zero at this range of discussion. I'd love to see more of the concrete numbers.
Any specific reason to go with it instead of alternatives?
They tried that, in The Netherlands, I think.

They stopped the initiative. Not sure why, but they didn't think it was effective.
If those people are extremely unlikely to commit a crime again, why should there be continuing consequences for them? What purpose does it serve beyond satisfying someone's feeling of revenge?

And if they are still dangerous, then, yes, you keep them locked up. But even then what's the point of making them suffer beyond the restrictions that are necessary to ensure the safety of the rest of society?
As a complete non-gamer, the ability to walk around the earth with a VR headset would justify buying one to me.

There are so many cities I've always wanted to walk down the streets of!
Permits cost more than construction.
Aside from the lack of evidence to report on in the various news pieces, I see no evidence to believe this was limited to underage females.

This isn't a comment on Thiel or anyone related to him, in any way, for the record.
I had a co-worker that could switch between qwerty and Dvorak instantly, it was amazing. And type very quickly in both.
Recently, I tested FreeBSD and it seems one can disable sendmail. See https://docs.freebsd.org/en/books/handbook/bsdinstall/#bsdin....
Nyxt: The Hacker's Browser
Oh boy, it seems you're one of today's lucky 10000 (https://xkcd.com/1053/ :-). The concept of EM waves slowing down in a medium is a curious one: it sounds obvious (you can hike a shorter distance in harder train even though exerting same effort) but generates interesting questions, e.g. what is the mechanism that "slows them down", how do photons speed up after they exit a the medium (https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/330994/how-does-...). I think the problem here is similar to the concept of "relativistic mass", a simple way to think about things and work problems but at the same time creates another set of problems and confusions.

red75prime's short answer in this thread is correct, for a longer one see this Physics SE questions and answers (https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/11820/what-reall...). In ELI5 terms: photons always move at speed c, but in a medium now and then (depending on properties of the medium, density, etc.) they interact with its atoms. In this case the atom absorbs the photon and after a short time generates another photon. So the speed of each photon is always c but the "overall light wave" becomes less than c.

If you're a non physicist like me who would like to delve further into this, I suggest Feynman's excellent and very readable book QED: The Strange Theory of Light and Matter (https://www.amazon.com/QED-Strange-Theory-Light-Matter/dp/06...)
I imagine when you’re dealing with so many weapons systems it’s helpful to have memorable names. Beats the heck out of X1, X2, X3, X4, X5, X6 (not to pick on BMW, but to pick on BMW).

(Update: not to mention the need to appeal to Congress to keep funding these systems.)
I'd say Supabase is great at spinning up CRUD apps. If anything, this article could be summarized as "Because Val Town is much more than a CRUD app, they had a harder time with Supabase than the average."
> thus revealing its position

Takes a pretty serious piece of tech to do that part though
> Diapers.com example: "When Bezos’s lieutenants learned of Wal-Mart’s counterbid, they ratcheted up the pressure, telling the Quidsi founders that [Bezos] was such a furious competitor that he would drive diaper prices to zero if they sold to Bentonville.

How is this not a serious anti-competitive monopolistic practice? Did the Dept of Justice get involved?
Always a pleasure to read you two guys' comments on LLM posts!
Has langchain had positive ROI for anyone beyond the initial prototype of their app? My experience has me skeptical - I end up feeling like I'm painted into a corner and need to start over. Maybe if I just used PromptTemplate and LLMChain, but at that point I can just use function composition and formatted strings.

Like I'd be blown away if someone had a production app where they were able to swap LLM providers (and nothing else) due to langchain. And if that expectation is too high then why not just code against the openai API?
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But it obviously is - just not so much that it's worth switching over, given how much of a standard QWERTY is and how much hassle it is to retrain. Most people just don't type enough for the issues with it to become apparent, and if there's no issues with it then there's nothing to justify changing.
Tinfoil hat lining
sufficiently discourage crime up front

the problem here is that many attempts to discourage crime upfront come with a reduction of personal freedom and privacy. eg. surveillance.
Just really learn to internalize "Off the shelf solution", "We can fix it later" and "Minimum viable" and you'll be fine (or, statistically probably not, but that's usually unrelated to technical decisionmaking).

Database schema: the minimum viable database schema that we can fix later

Product analytics: What off the shelf solution can we find to satisfy a minimum viable analytics setup

I've worked with countless engineers at startups that are addicted to building overly complex solutions in-house. They're just wasting time and money (aka runway). The thing many devs don't seem to internalize is that lots of startup development (outside of "hard" tech, where the tech _is_ the startup) is very very unsexy/unflashy. Configuring cheap SaaS products to satisfy your need as fast as possible. Anything that keeps you in business is good enough, and if you continue to exist you can fix it later. Literally everything other than your secret sauce should be answered by 1-3 of the above mentioned mantras.
> I would imagine the vast majority of OpenWRT users don't know they're running the Linux kernel. It was installed by the manufacturer or the operator. Assuming that's true, does it make OpenWRT not a distro?

My gut is to not consider OpenWRT a distro since it's usually just the software part of a network appliance and many/most users don't know they're running it, although I concede that it does qualify in most senses as a distro: downloadable image, a package manager, is a complete product that uses the linux kernel, etc.

I fully concede that my opinion of "what makes a distro" is subjective and arbitrary. It's very much the Linux distro version of Stewart's test for obscenity[1] and is a pretty unhelpful standard which value is quite low :-)

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I_know_it_when_I_see_it
>The DOD is unable to account for 61% of its 3.5 trillion in assets.

I bet most of the circumstances behind this stat are mundane. I used to be in military SAR and we had a mule[0] randomly go missing. We were mystified because it's not like a work-issued Blackberry you could forget at a Subway or something. It's hard to lose track of a 20-ton piece of GSE, or at least you'd think so. It later turned up in Kandahar at the coalition base.

These things happen; it's not malicious so much as the fact that mission success sometimes mean you take the wrong tow mule and "oh well".

[0]https://www.google.com/search?q=sellick+aircraft+tug
I stopped caring about typing when I realized I could already type twice as fast as I can think.
I’m not sure im reading well into your criticism about user stories, it sounds like you dislike how they are used in your company.

I find user stories critical because they are the lowest common denominator for product/sales/dev/biz etc, everyone gets them, can agree if this functionality will or will not he in release X and pretty much would set expectation correctly between all parties.

Additionally, moving down the dev pipeline, once you have wireframes / more specific designs, you can go over the user stories to make sure they are all supported.
Microwaves are literally photons. They're waves because of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wave%E2%80%93particle_duality#...
> WPP-owned GroupM, one of the world’s top media agencies, has told clients it no longer considers Twitter “high risk”, just days after Elon Musk appointed advertising stalwart Linda Yaccarino as the social media platform’s new chief.

Everyone and their dog is aware Elon Musk remains very much in charge above her as chairman, below he as CTO, and also as "Chief Twit" continuing to stir up controversy over this Twitter account, recently threatening to sue Microsoft, and Twitter's being sued by dozens of parties, former employees, partners, landlords, over not paying bills and rent. They still have severe staffing shortages, and vast increase of technical, content and security incidents.

But sure.

Not high risk, suddenly.

Maybe GroupM owe Linda Yaccarino a favor. But they just outed themselves as clowns.
The alternatives are building a building from scratch while these offices sit empty, no? Certainly you must agree retrofits are cheaper than building an entire new building. Also fyi, SF isn’t even allowing gas in new buildings anymore.

I agree with your logic when CRE yields 1.5x the rent of residential, but the model needs to be updated now that it's no longer the case.

Is your base cases these offices sit empty forever? Get torn down?

I think that line of thinking is the one massively ignorant of the realities of real estate.

In a city with almost no residential rental vacancies? That's the end-game?

EDIT: For everyone direct-quoting:

The conversion alone might cost about $400 or $500 per usable square foot, Mr. Bernstein added, and would in many cases be more expensive than building a new development.

A recent Moody’s analysis of New York offices found that just 3 percent of the buildings it tracked would be viable for apartment conversions. The median rent for apartments in New York is $55 per square foot, which just 36 percent of office properties now fall at or below — and on top of that, there’s all the cost of conversion.

$500 is nowhere near the fully-loaded cost to build new in any US city. The quoted man is comparing the cost to the delta in rent to his out-of-date understanding of what offices can yield.

It is just a simple fallacy to believe that SF/NYC offices can command $75/sqft at any reasonable occupancy level.

The economics of conversions only don't work when offices command premium rents, it's not some axiomatic fact about the world (the way it was before the pandemic).
Interesting point, I too have a similar moral, but I don’t mind to do something for defense, no?
Well… aren’t microwaves electromagnetic waves and as such photons?!
> Undernourishment is just a big of a problem as over-nourishment.

Having been recently diagnosed with Crohn's I 100% agree. Getting skinnier during a bad flare makes people think I'm in better health, because I look a certain way that aligns with their expectations, but it really just means my gut isn't absorbing any nutrients. Turns out being at my lowest weight in years was a Very Bad Thing and not a sign I was doing anything right.

Which, again, is an interesting juxtaposition with my partner who weighs more than me but whose body functions correctly and whose biomarkers come back normal, unlike mine.
Envisioning a Simplified Intel Architecture
They probably also don’t want to get involved in a misty copyright suit if someone who had their copyrighted data hovered up by ChatGPT claims it subsequently ended up in an Apple product.
The joy of abstract mathematical thinking – with Eugenia Cheng
> While the capture of the two surveillance drones appears to offer a rare glimpse into the North's technology, analysts stress they do not necessarily represent the best unmanned aerial vehicles the North can field.

Always be skeptical of aggressive mimicry. A "piece of crap with a cheap camera" is cheap and disposable-- and misleads those quick to jump to conclusions. It's what you deliberately throw over the fence when you want adversaries to think you're underequipped.

They have nukes for fuck's sake. They can afford real drones.
I am not the person who replied to you and I don't know to what extent that tale is fiction, but MS was enormously profitable selling Windows to OEMs and consumers before NT became a major force. NT was more of a response to OS/2 than it was some grand plan at grabbing the enterprise market that was hatched years earlier.
You need to build a stateless fish tank via replicas. It's pretty common that a new feature gets introduced into the upstream. You never even see it until one of your tanks crashes. That's why it's critical to have a backup strategy, n+1 redundancy, and a robust change control process to limit contagion risk.

I used to have a roommate that had like 12 tanks going all the time. I couldn't even complain, because I hosted my own kubernetes cluster, so I understood exactly why he needed them.
Startups play the game of customer acquisition costs above the revenue all the time. If we want to discuss this issues we need to skip cherry picking.
Example: Say you want to use Llama models in langchain. They have TWO CONFLICTING documentations, only one of which works:

1. https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/modules/models/llms/i...

2. https://python.langchain.com/en/latest/reference/modules/llm... → Turns out, LlamaCppEmbeddings is from langchain.embeddings, not langchain.llms!

I just gave up using langchain and one of the main reasons was its terrible docs.
The best way to detect UAVs remains the EM they emit themselves, be it telemetry or electromotive hum.
And then someone sees that people are buying diapers for 10 bucks and starts selling them for 5.
The main link you provided is either not loading, or loading with missing video links, for me - maybe hugged to death at the moment?

Github may be more resilient: https://github.com/XingangPan/DragGAN
I get your meaning, but not all competition is sport. You don't have to go horse to horse with your competition if you have an F-35.
It's not as easy as it sounds. Making those apps work fast enough on hardware they were originally written on often involved highly convoluted optimized code, and sometimes even handwritten assembly. There is a valid point here, but I don't think reviving old codebases is a good starting point in many cases.
> who lose money like GCP and Azure

Really? First time I'm hearing Azure is unprofitable. In fact "Intelligent Cloud" which I assume is mainly Azure is their most profitable business...

If I understand it correctly (probably not) they actually have higher margins than AWS?
Ask HN: How dangerous is Auto-GPT?
I'm talking about this project: https://github.com/Significant-Gravitas/Auto-GPT

It puts LLM's programming capabilities in a feedback loop with the real world in order to achieve arbitrary goals. In my opinion, this has the potential to become a very powerful and therefore dangerous tool.

I fear that people with both good and bad intentions give commands that do large scale harm. How do you see it?
You shouldn’t be downvoted. This is true. (Some legal booster seats don’t even boost the kid, they just readjust the seatbelt. It’d be very low cost to make manufacturers do this at the factory, and it’d drastically reduce the hassle of having kids in the car.)