skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it would be cool if you eventually provided an app to facilitate people who want an easy way to get notifications on mobile devices. There are services which will already do this, but would be nice to have one bundled with the paid plan which wasn't liable to go away.
Some of those could be avoided by using a search regex such as "\bblonde\b". I believe a sophisticated enough regex could solve all of these, if it were a central library used and maintained by many.
I read your link and don't get it. He said "Russia should not invade Ukraine" and pretty much nothing else. The criticism seems to be that he isn't more aggressively criticizing Russia? When he is physically located there, in a country that famously does not have any sort of freedom of speech, and has a wife and baby?
My favorite bad translation was a Philip Jose Farmer novel where all measurements were given in Imperial and Metric units. As in:

"It was about 1000 feet, or 304.88 meters". "He was 6 feet tall, or 182.88" meters."

Every single measurement, converted with two or three decimal places. It got old fast.
some guy in /r/stablediffusion made a lora that can do that (or maybe a derivative model, dont remember which)
They have explicitly said in interviews that it was intentional not to release epowerful ai models without being sure of the safety. OpenAI put them in the race and let's see how humanity will be affected.
Digital markets act strikes again
That anything that can be done will be done to push the narrative that will enrich the few.
You used to be able to do something very similar with Perl, right? A bunch of independent scripts that were basically web endpoints? I forget the name of those little scripts...

edit: CGI ?
I would indeed say that hoping for a perfect open source free (as in freedom) scalable web solution with a bustling community is an unrealistic, idealistic alternative. At least, as of now.
The painful lesson here is that nothing with the "you are the product" business model escapes enshittification. So I am not really interested in anything that's not community controlled.

Thankfully I've been making my home over at the Fediverse for the past few months so it's a lot easier to leave now than it would have been a year ago.

Yeah, it's not perfect but it's ours.
This all presupposes that LE is acting in bad faith, which - so far - has not been my experience. There definitely have been exceptions and those have rightfully been smacked down, both AIVD and the regular police forces have seen judgments against them for trying to expand the envelope to the point that it was clear that was not the intent of the law.

Those 'huge legal safeguards' in practice work out to a fairly loosely specified set of laws that are then interpreted as widely as possible by LE and subsequently tested in court whenever a party feels that they have overstepped the line. This method seems to work well enough that it has become standard procedure and of course new laws will be tested in a similar way. The current investigative process is often very dynamic, far more dynamic than the usual warrant process provides for and in that sense I can see the frustration about seeing a crime in progress and not being able to something about it as something that would need addressing. The international nature of the net and the speed with which these situations develop would mean that the online equivalent of 'skipping state lines' would be enough for a perp to always get away with it. This is an undesirable situation. It is also undesirable that law enforcement would be handed tools that give them too much leeway. Whether this tool is one of those or not will depend very much on how it plays out, given what I know about how the oversight system here works I have very good confidence that if there is abuse that it will be stopped. Dutch LE has learned a lot from various incidents in the past, which led to various backlashes. So they stand to lose as much as they stand to gain here.
Regular ChatGPT cannot download files or access pages on the internet - but it sometimes does a very convincing imitation of being able to do so.

I wrote about that here: https://simonwillison.net/2023/Mar/10/chatgpt-internet-acces...

There's a new thing called ChatGPT Browsing mode which CAN do this, but you need to pay for access to it and it makes it very obvious what is going on. There's a screenshot of that in my post (at the bottom).
Especially since bandwidth is usually measured in bits, and storage in bytes. Units matter!
> Yeah, TIMESTAMPTZ expressions don’t index nicely because they’re nondeterministic

Could you expand on why it's not deterministic? I thought timestamptz was 8-byte microseconds since the epoch. Is the problem that the timestamptz uses the server timezone?
What makes this particularly novel is the realization that traditional security measures, designed primarily for on-premises infrastructure, may not be enough to combat these SaaS-based attacks effectively.
Anything can be slippery-sloped into being horrifying for privacy.

If there were some kind of sensor that could detect, say, physical child abuse and nothing else—no video, no audio, just a binary yes/no is there physical child abuse (assuming an appropriate statutory definition of physical child abuse) you bet there would be lots of demand for that sensor -- and you could have reasonable conversations about false positives, risks of other data getting out, etc.

The difference between Telegram private chats and "unmonitored housing" is that the former has that kind of sensor available, and the latter doesn't.
Designing Crops to Change the Plant-Based Food System – Matt Crisp, Benson Hill
Benson Hill is designing crops and ingredients for some of the world’s most popular plant-based food brands.
This paper seems to be about refusing to do things that are offensive, but there is different perspective on it that I think gets overlooked, which is about UI design.

People don't know what an AI chatbot is capable of. They will ask it to do things it can't do, and sometimes it confidently pretends to do them. That's bad UI. Good UI means having warnings or errors that allow users to learn what the chatbot is capable of by trying stuff.

Unlike what's in the paper, that's a form of "refusal" that isn't adversarial, it's helpful.
> Not sure how they can confirm that it’s just 1 person infected vs. a group.

They've explained it before -- https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665444605511311362... -- while they aren't confirming it's exactly one person, they've got strong data to suggest it's likely just one person, and for sure not some kind of community outbreak situation.
> Another kind of rent seeker would be a dude building a small SAAS product by stitching together other people framework, paying a copywriter for his blog content and a designer for his visual. Another is a dude investing his money in bonds/stocks hoping for a return.

Yes, we are in agreement.

> There are many kind of rent seeker in this world. Each requiring a different set of skills, expertise and appetite for risks. Someone doing that through real estate is called a landlord. It's not better or worse than any other kind.

Let's not put makeup on this particular pig. I am a rent-seeker myself. Just not a hypocrite that will pretend that I have a particular set of skills that contribute anything to the world.

I just saved money acquired through labor and bought dividend stocks.
The feature itself isn't that crazy – it's even a good thing, especially considering that Excel (and to lesser degree, VBA) were designed for ordinary people and that in the 80s/90s English was less common than it is today.

Where it went wrong is that as soon as you choose a language you were stuck with that. It should have been a display option.
I believe gp's point is that Neutron Stars often have diameters around 10 km (so says Wikipedia anyway ). So, if you're comparing by-diameter and you count neutron stars as stars, then a neutron star can absolutely be smaller than a planet.

If, on the other hand, the comparison is by-mass, it's a different story.

All the best,

-HG
Couldn't you instead test outsiders, and cure 'forever infected' people probably sometime within their life? The tradeoffs aren't worth it with effective vaccines, but if it was something as deadly as the original SARS with a long incubation time I'm sure we'd still be doing strict measures like that.
Theyre not commercially available because theres no market for it not because theres anything infeasible about it - cost-wise or otherwise.

The amount of deployed solar and wind around the world isnt even enough to turn off the gas turbines during the sunniest windiest days yet. Theres little point to electrolyzing gas into existence until it routinely overproduces and beyond existing storage capacity and by a lot. Needing to close that 3% gap? That'd be a good problem to have but we are years away.
That's _AWESOMELY_ british.
Obviously, it depends. If you’re anywhere near London, you’ll probably have visited the Oxford Street/Regent Street/Carnaby/Seven Dials areas. The former is pretty horrible with half the shops fairly transparent money laundering operations, the latter are nice areas to visit with nice shops and restaurants. The difference is that the latter are single-landlord developments where the former is composed of many landlords each trying to get the highest bid. The difference is the landlord’s value add.
> very convincing imitation of being able to do so

So that's really what was happening! Then it's even more impressive how close it came to parsing the PDF file correctly, (or I guess I gave it more direct hints than I remembered.) Thanks for the link!
There is this idea that we are building wind and solar plants to match the consumption of an average cloudy day with not much wind. If we are able to reach that level of production, we will have an overwhelming excess of essentially free energy on days when when the weather is actually favorable for renewables. As a consequence, on those days we can do energy intensive activities such as produce synthetic fuels or hydrogen, etc. very very cheaply. To me that is pretty exciting.
Yep. My mistake. I meant to say soldered storage.
Digg is still around. So is Slashdot. For some definition of "still around."

> The energy is better spent getting Reddit to improve their official app imho

The market forces of a site like Reddit (or most web sites, frankly) are fundamentally against accessibility. The mobile web site nags me constantly with a banner popup to install their native app. How does one even talk about accessibility in the presence of dark patterns that make a site inaccessible to even those without the need for a11y?

If I'm being blunt, a11y is nothing more than a sledge hammer that devs use to bash other devs over the head with. A lot of "thou shall nots" with not a whole lot of actual user testing. Sprinkling aria attributes and "semantic" tags all over your DOM doesn't make your site accessible. Not when you're also putting in ads, carousels, and various other things that go completely against it.
Some games do use key location. Factorio, for example, uses key location. It's really hit or miss. I am not sure what determines whether they use key location or not.

Edit: Basically, the key mappings would automatically change WASD to WARS for Colemak.
The things it says aren't based on knowledge or truth. It doesn't even know whether it can download things, much less can it tell you the truth about that capability. It just says words.
> Apple implementing JPEG XL in Safari changes that. Now it's a format with a real chance of being supported across the whole ecosystem.

As I’ve mentioned in other threads, I don’t believe the Chrome team didn’t know Apple was going to implement JPEG XL.

There’s lots of communication between the Chrome and WebKit teams.

It’s going to take more than just Apple shipping JPEG XL to perhaps change Google’s point of view; JPEG XL needs to be seen as a game changer that moves the needle.
every once in a while I take a look at someone's phone who is not techically saavy.

Constant stream of beeps and buzzes, notifications, text messages and phone calls from unknown origin, phishing attempts and more. They are conditioned to enter their phone number or email for the most trivial of reasons, to use apps for everything, and to leave them on their phone forever, sapping their attention and privacy.

I think it's nice to see people pushing back and telling others about it.

I think you should help normalize the pushing back, not the giving in.
> Can you a communist example where someone like Snowden was treated better

That Isa false dichotomy

Being opposed to capitalism does not make one a communist.

There are more than two things
These use cases confuse me. If I needed to schedule an email to myself, why wouldn't I just run a simple local node server with my JS function on my home computer?

I'm sure it's a failure of my imagination but I'd just love to have more salient "ah ha!" example use cases of this platform.
if that logic worked, wouldn't unreliable people have already encouraged such behaviour?
I wrote a blog post about my experience with Dvorak!

TL;DR It's great, but if you're interested you should use Colemak. Once you switch you won't go back.

https://maxgreenwald.me/blog/switching-to-dvorak
Sacrificing one’s entire life to live in exile to expose is criminal government is plenty honorable.

Frankly as a non American I don’t know why you’re weighing in so strongly on this.
I'm 50 and I can see just as well at night as I can in the daytime. Presbyopia means I cannot clearly read the instrument cluster without my glasses on, but I can read the text message the guy three cars in front is sending. Not that you should really need to read much on the gauges anyway - all the things that are going to get you into an accident are outside the car, and that's where your attention needs to be.
> Why is absolute depth a strict safety win? How do you know how the sensor details translate to the final safety of the full system?

If you can get reliable depth information, the algorithm needed to avoid hitting stationary and slow-moving objects is extremely simple.

Is the stationary object in our path, of nontrivial size, and about to enter our minimum stopping distance? If yes, do we have a swerve planned that will let us safely avoid it? If no, emergency stop.

Because this logic is simple and well defined you can audit the implementation to the high standards applied to things like aircraft autopilot systems.

And it'll work even if the stationary object is something that didn't appear in your training data - you know the algorithm will work the same even if that concrete barrier is painted with some cheery flowers, or if that fire truck is airport yellow instead of the normal red.

Of course, this relies on the assumption you can get reliable depth information. If your depth sensor gets confused by a cloud of dust while driving in the desert, or gets blinded by the light of the setting sun, or is unable to detect a barbed wire fence, things are no longer quite so simple....

> If this is just a handwavey upper bound on safety, how do you know that such a system can’t be safe enough for its design goals?

Personally I would say that in freeway driving, a self-driving car should be able to avoid 100% of collisions with clearly visible stationary objects in dry, well lit conditions when all system components are in normal working condition.
It looks like a "Function as a Service" offering, comparable to AWS Lambda, Cloudflare Workers, Netlify Functions, GCP Cloud Functions, and so on.
Of course it’s not a conspiracy. It’s all about the interests. Just compare coverage of Palestine and Israel. US interests lie with Israel — a US proxy ready to gladly down any nation that steps out of line using American. So Israelis are the angels and Palestinians are the devils. Who cares about the brutal occupation. Who cares about settler violence. Ignore all Israeli crimes to the point of white-washing. Meanwhile, all media outlets will rush to ensure that any Palestinian resistance against the violent occupation — whether it’s violent or peaceful — is covered as if it is terrorism or racism.

US media is just Propaganda.
Network Error Logging
But Toyota is a real car with real controls while Tesla has a steering wheel and a monitor.
Whenever I hear the "British accent of the 1700" I just don't really believe it. There isn't a British accent now. There are many many different accents, all wildly different.
1. Go to meet-ups or conferences — not for your own industry, but rather for industries and verticals that you expect to consume your product. (For example, if you're Twilio, then go to an app-dev conference.)

2. Meet people; ask what they do; wait for them to return the favor and ask what you do.

3. Pitch them on the problem you're solving — and how you are (intending to) solve it — by just talking them through it. Pretend it's something you've already built and that you're just describing the company you work for.

4. Gauge interest by who demands your business card.
Apple used MacBook Pro 14 inch's Video instead of MacBook Air 15
No it’s not. It needs to be updated in order for it to run without that warning.

If the user has permission to disable the warning, they can, otherwise the app needs to be updated.
This is the most elegant way to say "jesus could've been a lizardperson" ive ever seen.
This looks really useful. Simple pitch and lots of potential applications. Say hi to Dan!
> gaslighting

> and you know it

I'm always so knowledgeable in the eyes of people who criticise me!

No, I didn't know Asahi had a single trans developer. I've never seen it come up on HN, where I most often hear about the cool work being done by the Asahi team. The vast majority of comments on here about every new Asahi article are effusive praise.

I dispute the characterisation of HN as some transphobic hellsite. That characterisation is simply not accurate, in the slightest, whatever perception may prevail on the Asahi Discord.

> why the fuck do you care

My other comment below, explaining the legal issue with fake OSS contributors, was already up by the time of your comment, so I refer you there. More broadly, I think Marcan should get to have as many anime alter-egos as he wishes. I'm just not particularly surprised that people find that noteworthy, and I think if you choose to have a public anime alter ego, you probably should be able to deal with that? I feel like Marcan's attempt to shut down this discussion is a perfect example of the Streisand effect - I certainly would have never found out about 'Lina' were it not for this silly feud.
Did they really do this? How can they possibly justify that? Are their users so held hostage that broken software isn't enough to get them to leave?
Many console gamers aren't aware of how [well] games play on PC gaming rigs, or they don't care, and are happy to play games on Switch/PS4/PS5/Xbox.

Apple may very well be targeting mobile and console gamers rather than PC gamers with gaming rigs.

Personally I would definitely enjoy playing on a high-end gaming PC (especially as GPUs become easier to find at MSRP), but I already have a Mac and a PS5.

I wouldn't mind more of my Steam library working on macOS though.
Vaguely related, I’ve noticed before manuals in which tech writers provide expansions of acronyms - but they don’t realise that in the context of that manual the acronym means something different.

I remember one z/OS manual saying AIX stood for “Advanced Interactive eXecutive”-which is true if we are talking about the Unix, but this manual was talking about a VSAM AIX (Alternative IndeX) - a secondary index for the VSAM flat file database system. Another example was USS being wrongly expanded as “UNIX System Services” when in the context it was actually a reference to VTAM’s “Unformatted System Services” (the part of VTAM which handles the initial LOGIN command, I think “Unformatted” because it is plain EBCDIC not 3270)

In Windows, there is an account flag called “UF_MNS_LOGON_ACCOUNT”. A lot of people claim “MNS” stands for “Majority Node Set” - even one MS doc - see MNSLogonAccount in https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/powershell/module/activedi... - however, while it is true that’s what the acronym stands for in the context of Windows clustering, I’m pretty sure in the context of Windows user accounts it actually means “Microsoft Netware Services”-this flag was used by Microsoft’s 1990s era software which enabled Windows NT to pretend to be a Netware server, and the unrelated Windows clustering “MNS” has never used that account flag. “Microsoft Netware Services” was renamed to “Microsoft Services for Netware” (MSN-but not that MSN!-hence MSFN or SNW), no doubt for trademark law reasons, but the name of this flag got stuck with the original acronym. I don’t think it actually does anything unless you have that old stuff installed, which probably doesn’t work on newer versions of Windows. I suppose that being an effectively disused flag, there is nothing stopping people from stealing it for their own purposes, and probably someone out there has.
> Seattle's season breakdown has "smoke" slotted neatly

We called the season "Smogust" when we lived there.
Yeah, that's fair. You can't do it, not even using horrible hacks.
And right now Russia is likely the best option given those criteria.

And it doesn't make him a hypocrite either. To focus on that is ridiculous given the context.
I once worked on a project where we had the concept of a "case" and we had to change it to a "task"..

Suddenly, we had a lot of "switch/task" statements that somewhat perplexed the compiler.
Tell HN: I won't use Google's language models in production
Having a look at https://killedbygoogle.com/, you can see tons of "cool" ideas that were once a Google product, but ended up being canceled by Google for various reasons.
As someone who's investing in large language models for the long term, I just can't trust that Google won't kill Bard or any other LLM in their line.

My gut feeling is that any product that isn't directly making money for Google, will stop at some point. It's a sad reality because I so desperately want there to be competition in this field so that ClosedAI doesn't get away with dumbing down their gpt4 without consequences.
Noise like this is why the NSA doesn't get held accountable for spying on Americans.

Who has time to worry about privacy breaches and mass surveillance when aliens are real?

It would be harder to imagine an easier psyop to pull off. The only thing that strains credibility is that apparently it works.
Wouldn't it be more appropriate to say this is how authoritarianism works?
The benefits don't vanish completely, since vowels are still the most common letters in most Latin-alphabet based languages.
It's not easy to move a group to a new platform, and there's very little people using Lemmy currently. The thing about Reddit despite its flaws is that it allows access to many large communities with a single account.
This is one of the many truly weird thing about trying to build software on top of LLM APIs.

I'm not used to programming where one of the possible error states is that the computer just straight up decides it doesn't want to do the thing I asked it to do!
There’s a grease monkey script that will block the call. It’s happening in your browser after text completion.
https://twitter.com/SolidEvidence/status/1665444605511311362

This tweet alone could probably dox someone.
To be fair, translation systems genuinely are a pain, and it's easy to make a mistake either as a developer or as a translator who has thousands of strings to translate.

It doesn't help that a lot of developers probably never translated an application; when I added translations the first thing I did was translate it myself, but that's not really feasible for larger systems and/or with people who don't speak a second language well enough to actually do translations.