skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Let's rein in Big Tech. Now what? Law enforcement and intelligence agencies are going to leave it at that and not seek alternative paths? I do not understand how anyone is more eager to address something that merely facilitates the problem than the actual problem itself.
Show HN: HN Resume to Jobs – AI Powered Job Matching Tailored to Your Resume
Hey HN! I'm excited to show off this side project I've been working on. This project matches your resume with the best matching jobs from the monthly HN Who's Hiring post. It works by creating a vector embedding of your resume using OpenAI's embedding API, and then ranking the jobs using a vector similarity score. (You can toggle between max inner product, cosine, and euclidean in the "Advanced Options")

I was laid off in August and it took a whole 6 months for me to find my new job. Fortunately, I found my new role on January's HN Who's Hiring post. So I hope this will prove useful to any job seekers out there. I know it's a tough time right now, but you will get through it!

Thanks HN! I would greatly appreciate any and all feedback!
I know three different people who sold their homes, moved into sailboats, and set out to be waterborne digital nomads, sailing around the world and doing freelance work to support themselves. I know one guy who did the same thing, but with #vanlife. In all these cases, without exception, they regretted it within a year.

My advice is, before you liquidate your assets, quit your job, upend your life... give it a dry run. Try it for a month or two first. See if you still like it. If you don't, call it a long vacation and re-evaluate.
See also:

https://www.sacbee.com/news/politics-government/capitol-aler...

> "Aguiar-Curry’s bill would not stop the DMV from permitting the testing of autonomous heavy-duty trucks but would mandate that the trucks always have a human operator... Supporters say the regulation would help protect people traveling on California roadways and support the livelihoods of truck drivers across the state."
The Vietnam war might be another exception.
Not at $500 a pop. The question is, do they want to sell hardware or do they want to sell the metaverse?
Yeah, the affiliate link thing gives it a propaganda feel but I wanted to know where the 1),2),3) linked to. I went to the ehn site and found the same article, but not much more detail. I found the first researcher listed,

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Terrence-Collins

but not immediately a pfas focused study, so just a little confused. If it does have pfas incidentally, I'm guessing it came from a place that processed pfas and microcrystalline wax. I know they scaled up recently, and I'm curiously guessing that their supply line changed... For better or worse I wonder. Regardless, more polyester production isn't great, and shreddable pfas is terrible, so go with what you can find that is best. I haven't gone down the amazon rabbit hole yet.
The dose for LSD to be harmful is extremely high and you would likely never encounter anyone selling anywhere close to the amount needed. The biggest threat to the user is the contamination of the LSD by possibly fentanyl or other opiates due to the unregulated nature of the black market.
Socializing is one thing you do in the Metaverse. Working is probably the bigger one though.

Lots of people don’t grok this but the endgame for VR/AR is replacing every monitor in every office and home. Probably ditto TVs when every person owns a headset.

It’s going to be a massive game-changer (and a rapid transition) when VR gets good enough to work in.

The question is just whether this is a 5-year timeline or 50. Mark is obviously betting he can get traction in the 5-10 year timeframe.
> your fierce competitors had access to all your phone calls, texts, google docs, spreadsheets etc.?

I'll take this a step further into the Sci-Fi realm: what if your competitors could use all that data to model a simulation of your thoughts and generate your own ideas faster than you can?

There's a philosophical argument here as ownership of those produced thoughts are contestable. The data is from you, so do you have the rights? The machine that produced the thoughts was built by a different person and they fronted all the costs and other such things, just not the data. You can make strong arguments either way.

And to keep with the sci-fi dystopian theme, would that society stop communicating openly and watch their words carefully?

I'm dialing it up to 11, but in some respect this is possible today or in the near future. But for our scenario, let's keep it dialed to 11 and assume this is/can be perfected. (I'm not convinced this would be effective today fwiw, far too much noise)
And goal differential as tiebreaker creates an incentive where just winning isn't enough
Once the invasion of privacy proved monetarily and politically profitable and legally a gray area its fate was sealed.

In a sense the age of moving fast and breaking things helped us see what the system is made of: What sort of moral reflexes exist, how quickly they get mobilized, where this happens institutionally, geographically and socially etc.

Needless to say that it has been the bleakest of revelations.

What is deeply ironic though, is that the system is in self-destruct mode.

The privacy destruction happens in parallel with the annihilation of ownership / copyright that is discussed in other threads. A new "world order" is instituted, uglier and poorer.

The prosperity and social stability of the West has been based on instituting, respecting property rights, privacy, individual agency as the bedrock of liberal market democracy.

It turned out the pillars on which the edifice was standing have rotted over time and nobody knew.
Agreed re fitness tracking. I have been thinking about that.
Not to worry, he's simply creating jobs by making it necessary to hire security for the security team. It's all for the sake of bolstering the economy and is just good business.
That's not my memory. My memory is that Google basically bought it (by buying Deja News) and turned it into Google Groups, removing most of what made it great. That was when people really left in droves.

But that was a long time ago. I could be misremembering.
I was being a bit sarcastic. Obviously the refs know the rules. But it's fairly easy to get a bit wrong at the margins. I've reffed ice hockey by comparison and, while you may miss a call here and there it's pretty clear at least if you look at a slo-mo replay whether a call was right or not based on puck and skates position.
The height of naming irony, given this was Blizzcon 2013 and the Cosby allegations came out in 2014.
Show HN: Predibase - Low-Code AI for Developers
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Looks like there's a number of interesting articles listed already.

One little inspiration from HN would also be nice - adding the age/year of the linked web page to the linked title, so it's easier to see which link refers to recent content.
Basic question: is it correct to assume that having PGQ involves a big change in the database engine?
Also, MNT Reform. Love it, though the screen is a bit wide for me.

My OLPC XO-1 is still a daily-driver (with an HHKB, yeah I know the keyboard costs more than the laptop, tough!), especially for outside use.

https://mntre.com/
^ MNT
Battery Guru was permanently removed from Play Store
I don't know anything about Zig except that it is a low-level language. Can someone please explain how it is better than Rust?
Go to a nursing home sometime that isn’t super duper nice and expensive. You’ll see underpaid healthcare professionals using unwieldly and underserving equipment treating people they disdain all for gross profit from corporations

Then ask yourself if elderly abuse is really surprising at all
Conversely, what personas have a higher marginal propensity to spend, IT folk? Sales?
Agreed. $120 per dinner?
For me, I think the problem is that normal, boring, stupid, unsophisticated, plebian imperative programming lives in a world of O(1) operations. That is to say, a "normal" line of code you type will be O(1), and then you generally start gluing those together with various things that start stacking on O(n) complexities. As things like the accidentally quadratic blog [1], in the normal programming world it is a bit humorous to even so much as accidentally stack two of those things unnecessarily on top of each other.

Certainly, people manage to make poorly performing things even so, but at least at the base level, your primitives may be stupid, but they are generally fast.

The logic programming world works in a default space of O(n) operations, that stack together more freely than the imperative world, and that gives easy access to O(2^n). Since this is essentially impossible, a great deal of work is done to try to get that down, but you're always intrinsically starting behind the eight-ball. It is easier to work up from O(1) operations than to write an exponential or super-exponential algorithm and then try to trim it back down to a decent complexity for a normal programmer.

I think this is the root cause as to why logic programming is generally not something we see a lot of. It's like a wild stallion; it may be powerful but the amount of effort you pour into just keeping it under control may exceed any benefit you could get.

It isn't useless, of course. Amazing work has been done in the field of SAT solvers, and there's certainly a niche for it. The problems that are intrinsically higher-order polynomials or (technically) exponential, well, they are what they are and if you're going to be stuck in that world, logic programming may offer you a much better toolset than conventional programming on its own. But there was a hope a long time ago, in the Prolog era, that it could become part of the normal toolkit of general purpose programming, and I don't think that will ever happen, because of this line of logic.

This is a bit tangential to the article, it's just what I happened to read that finally crystallized this in my mind.

[1]: https://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/
As a thought, it might be better to use the https:// link to Peter's overview. :)
Have you ever done psychedelics?
Elevating open source contributors to open source maintainers
Thanks! Lots of little neat improvements in there like accessing JSON values using dots and array syntax:

SELECT t.j.foo.bar[2], ... FROM tbl t ...
Yeah, I can't think of a plausible rationale for this rule. FTA:

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No match could end in a draw; if the teams were tied at the end of regular time, they would go into sudden death extra time. But! Any goal scored in extra time would count as two goals. This was presumably done because this tournament, like many, used goal difference to break ties in the qualifying groups. (Goal difference = total number of goals they’ve scored minus the number of goals they’ve conceded.) So that extra time “golden goal” would give a team an edge in the overall competition. Little did the organisers know that it would also lead to one of the strangest football games ever seen.

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Such a rule has no impact within a game, it doesn't change the basic premise that a tie game goes to sudden death and next goal wins. But potentially weird scenarios are actually pretty easy to think of if you just consider the rule for a couple of minutes.
That doesn't sound like a 'nomad' to me.
On understanding data abstraction, revisited (2009) [pdf]
That's a pretty one-sided description of the War of 1812. The whole thing was a bit of a fiasco and an attempted land-grab of territories controlled by Native American nations allied to the British by hawkish Senators from border states who wanted to make a name for themselves by advocating for it. The war ended with the British agreeing to status quo ante-bellum, even though America started the war. The general upshot is just that the British-allied Native Americans were, by treaty, supposed to have their territorial integrity respected but the British didn't think it was worth the hassle to enforce those provisions so those Native Americans all got pushed aside.

It doesn't really have clear "winners" or "losers." Really more like Britain getting stung by a bee while it was in the middle of something (War with France) and finding that rather inconvenient, but successfully fending off the bee's (America's) attempt to take its house.
Same, and I appreciate similar contributions to my own projects
Summary: Apple apparently helped Bechtel (a nuclear security contractor contracted to USG) build a one-off spy device out of an iPod in 2005 -- Bechtel provided hardware mod, Apple provided technical support for developers adding a buried menu item to iPod software to enable/disable the device, suggested to possibly be a Geiger counter and also advised where the data might be inconspicuously stored on the hdd.
This never makes any sense to me. Have you been to any country in Southern Europe? Parts of those are akin to the Mexican border with nationalities from all over the world - for example Portugal has a half-Indian prime minister and most of its immigrants are from Latin America, Middle East and Africa, with a number from China via Macau.
To be fair, this is a pretty lackluster "announcement". They basically said "hey, here is some new hardware that is a bit better than last years model"...and forgot to say "hey, here are a bunch of new ways this will actually improve your life".

Better resolution...great. Am I actually going to be able to read text comfortably for extended periods to do work within the headset? Better passthrough...cool, but does that enable any new mixed reality setups? Can I use other devices around me or sip my coffee without taking the headset off?

I expect next week we will see a lot more interesting experiences from Apple's announcement.
I was insinuating that maybe it was faked altogether to appear like they have more business than they do.
They’ve released two open betas. They’re not keeping anything secret. So yes, tinfoil it is.
Try "In Death: Unchained". You'll be blown away. By far the best game on the Quest IMHO. It's exactly the kind of game I wish for as a kid.
would you be willing to take on any interns? Located in NYC and on my last year at NYU.
Seems very useful but how could one try it out ?
No links here nor on your screencast :-)
Sounds like your friend overstepped local cultural norms which is quite the opposite of "integration"
Python is quite often being used without pip, as the modules are often packaged by distros already (and in many distros they have to be packaged this way in order to include the application that uses them in the repos).
I have nearly constant back pain, bone spurs and disc degeneration on my MRI, and a family history of ankylosing spondylitis which required surgery in two cases, and I still can’t see a rheumatologist for some reason. Probably because i am on Medicare.
I think the proof is going to be when you decide to sell. That may turn out to be harder than the deciding to buy.
> You cannot lay a 2000 mile subsea cable from Greece to the Nordics.

Sure, that makes it easier, not harder. Interconnection capacity can be expanded. The Nordic grid is already connected (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synchronous_grid_of_Northern_E... ; 11 interconnections are listed), just not synchronized; they can and do exchange power just fine.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/European_super_grid details all sorts of proposals in this regard, some of them currently being implemented. Like I said, not much imagination necessary; others have already gotten it well past that point.
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> We really need an EV-like fast charger standard for electronics.

We already have it, the fastest charging phones charge their batteries faster than the fastest charging EVs.

Battery charge and discharge rate generally scales linearly with capacity, given the same battery technology twice as much battery should generally be able to handle twice as much energy in either direction. For the sale of comparison we divide the charge rate by the capacity to get a "C-Rate" where 1C is defined as the rate that would fully drain or charge the battery in one hour. For an EV with an 80kWh battery pack 80kW would be 1C, 160kW 2C, etc.

The fastest charging EVs on the market right now all peak in the 2.5-3C range, with the Hyundai-Kia e-GMP cars taking the lead even with a lower overall peak wattage due to their smaller batteries. The Lucid Air, Tesla Plaid, and Porsche/Audi siblings all hit higher watt numbers but have significantly larger batteries so they have an easier time doing that.

A modern cell phone with fast charging can be well above 5C. The wattage numbers are thousands of times lower, but so are the capacities. The fastest charging phone I can find right now claims 300 watts and has demonstrated a bit over 280 from the wall which would imply around 260 reaching the device. In to a 4100mAh battery, which assuming standard chemistry is 4.2v nominal means 17.22 watt hours, so 260 watts would be just over 15C. A Tesla P100D would need to be accepting 1.5 megawatts to match that performance.

Hope that puts it in to perspective for you. The fact that phones exist that can charge at hundreds of watts is absurd already, without some serious advances in both battery and wiring tech we are not getting significantly faster than that.
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Show HN: Secure ChatGPT – a safer way to interact with generative AI
Hi HN,

I’m the founder of Pangea. We’ve built a developer platform where you can easily add security to your code through a simple set of APIs - features like authentication, secrets management, audit logging, redaction of PII, restricting embargoed countries, known threat actor intelligence, etc.

With the ChatGPT and LLM explosion, we thought of ways to reduce the risk of both the inputs and outputs from these services. Our NextJS sample app adds a security layer on top of ChatGPT with various security services that you can implement quickly.

It’s basically a front end to the OpenAI API that you can deploy which does a few security-related things:

- AuthN - it provides authentication to track who inputs what and when

- Redact - provides PII redaction with detection of over 40 different types of sensitive information

- Secure Audit Log - logs the user, cleansed prompt, and model to a secure tamper-proof audit trail

- Sends the cleansed prompt to the OpenAI API and receives the response

- Domain Intel - Performs a Domain Reputation lookup on any domain names in the response

- URL Intel - Performs a URL Reputation lookup on any URLs in the response

- Defangs any malicious domains or URLs found in the response

- On closing your session, the history of prompts disappears

Storing what users have prompted allows you to better train your model, feed it more relevant information, and keep an audit log of the history. The Secure Audit Log service can store the user inputs in a secure log so that you can track who did what and when.

The final layer of defense is a Domain Intel service to detect and neutralize the malicious URLs and domain names in the OpenAI API's response.

The proof-of-concept app is open-source on GitHub. Visit our repo https://github.com/pangeacyber/secure-chatgpt and deploy the app with a simple NPX command.

We’d love your feedback.

-Oliver
Just wanted to thank you for coming out and saying that.
Is this really still a thing?

Do people go further than using instrinsics for let's say AVX?
Yeah I agree. The first-party maps have been getting better since Beat Games started hiring from the community mapmaker talent pool, but prior to that the stock maps felt kinda clunky and lacked flow.

Also while the variety in stock maps is better than its ever been, it still doesn’t hold a candle to the thousands of community maps.
Reminds me of how Carl Sagan wrote about his experiences with cannabis usage (under the pseudonym Mr. X, as to avoid the social stigma associated with it at the time).
I find these descriptions incomprehensible. Its like explanations written for ppl who already know the thing.
Some labelled images or videos or before/after comparisons might help.
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How about removal from Windows 11 Home, available in Windows Pro. To me it feels like a move towards Android where there is no task manager, apps can start themselves at boot, and little ability to easily manage what is happening on your own device. I hope not.
Life should be all about entertainment. You are missing something essential I believe.
I'm wondering if the analysis that is done will feed some insights ro the optimizer.

Or is it done in reverse, the optimizer that feeds data to the analysis?