skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you're making assumptions about people and their capability to judge consistency over large chunks of information, when that information is at least internally consistent and common in their experience.

If I believe the Clinton's are pedophiles and murderers and are part of a ring of like minded people, and I'm inundated with information from people and organizations which support this (or at least carefully don't refute it), then when I'm presented with information about a pizza parlor that is supposedly holding children in the basement, is that consistent with my beliefs?

I think what you're presenting is just what everyone already does. Instead of assessing thi gs based on how well they fit our beliefs, we should assess them based on a consistent objective standard, and then alter our beliefs if it meets that standard but conflicts with our beliefs.

This may in fact be what you belief, because you belive in facts and the importance of the truth. The problem is that you get wildly different results when someone that values different things applies the same system.
Calling his Tesla stock "savings" and using market cap to determine its liquid purchase power is astoundingly ignorant. Tell me, if you have, say, 100 million in savings, and you spend 20 million, does the remainder magically shrink also to 20 million, like happened with Musk in 2022?

Also do you realize he paid about 1/4 of the value of Twitter. The rest is loans and other investors burning cash by trusting him and rolling over.

Tell me why did a wealthy man who merely spent "20% of his savings" take on high-interest debts worth over 13 billion?
> Matter can also work entirely on your local network, so gadgets should respond more quickly and work even if your internet is down.

https://www.theverge.com/22832127/matter-smart-home-products...
OT & Apologies for being unspecific, but can anyone else jog my memory about the open source fork 2-3 years ago that was going to try to pretty heavily edit internals/try some of new architectural designs? Some searches have not lead me back to the name of it...

Edit: OrioleDB! https://github.com/orioledb/orioledb https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30462695

The 2021 slidedeck on problems & possibilities in postgres was super fun to read! Solving postgresql's wicked problems. https://www.slideshare.net/AlexanderKorotkov/solving-postgre...
Please note that Christianity is characterized by its emphasis on Jesus and the New Testament, in contrast to say Judaism. Feel free to criticize Christianity as well as other religions, but the criticism is more fruitful if based on actual practices or authorative texts such as the Catholic cathecism

Wikipedia:

> In 318, Constantine I considered infanticide a crime, and in 374, Valentinian I mandated the rearing of all children (exposing babies, especially girls, was still common). The Council of Constantinople declared that infanticide was homicide, and in 589, the Third Council of Toledo took measures against the custom of killing their own children.
Europe currently, no pop ups, no ads. And no place holders. Page loads fast.
Guys, everybody goes into management for the money.
There’s an ikea in Hammersmith. I assume there no sed service box area, and perhaps a smaller display. If you want something it will presumably be home delivery.

I assume the market hall stuff is on site though.
ChatPDF-GPT: An Educational Project Using LangChain and OpenAI to Chat with PDFs
If they can’t make $30 ARPU stick, what could ever be profitable on Web, other than by deceptively recovering damages through ads? Is the only value prop of Web that it’s free-beer?(my mental answer is nothing and yes)
Yes, it "works", and no, it's not worth the time.
I adore TypeScript -- JS/TS has been my primary language for most of my career.

Kotlin has a few things that TS doesn't have but overall, I'd rate it very similarly. I probably enjoy writing TS a bit more than Kotlin.

EDIT: TS also has Opaque Types, sort of. They call them "brand types" or other names, it looks like this:

declare const opaque: unique symbol
declare type Opaque<T, K extends string> = T & { readonly [opaque]: K }

type Email = Opaque<string, 'Email'>

function mkEmail(email: string): Email { return email as Email }
function takesEmail(email: Email) { console.log(email) }

const email = mkEmail('foo@bar.com');
takesEmail(email);
takesEmail('wrong'); // error
ChatPDF-GPT is an innovative project that harnesses the power of the LangChain framework, a transformative tool for developing applications powered by language models. This unique application uses LangChain to offer a chat interface that communicates with PDF documents, driven by the capabilities of OpenAI's language models.

In this project, the language model is connected to other data sources and allows interaction with its environment, thus embodying the principles of the LangChain framework. Users can upload a PDF document, which is then processed and saved in Pinecone, a vector database, and Supabase storage. Users can then chat with the uploaded PDF, with the AI utilizing the content of the document to engage in a meaningful conversation.

The project relies on the Next.js framework, a leading choice for creating robust, full-stack Web applications. The UI components are beautifully crafted using the Radix UI library and styled with Tailwind CSS, based on the elegant template provided by shadcn/ui.
How I think about it is …

If the weather says “10% chance of rain”, what that means is in my city - there’s a 100% chance water will fall from the sky. But only 10% of us in the city will experience it.
> If it's the latter, I expect all existing mods to get the boot and replaced with people who are friendlier with Reddit admins.

I'm not crossing the picket line, but I think that's a likely outcome, too. That's why I'm preparing to archive what little content I'm personally interested in and am leaving the platform permanently.
Melt in what way? Just didn't have enough network bandwidth, or something else?
That's great. I have over 1000 posts on my WP blog, so moving it is a bit more involved. But if you're starting out today, what you suggested seems great!
funny how we still have people even on hn dissing Windows. How old are you?

No srsly how old are you?

My arch linux works great, just takes a little bit more fines than Windows. My Windows runs very well for the last 6 years and happily entertains me with tons of games, chrome and lightroom. The MacOS i'm using at work though, also works totally fine.

You trigger people on purpose right?
You could say that about any license. Every license has stipulations, including those not for profit. Otherwise it would be public domain.

One could arguing enforcing open source is harder to afford specifically because you aren't making money off of it.
hell yeah. burn baby burn. i fucking love reddit but i'd rather it die by implosion than see it live long enough to become slashdot
You have to use a very strange definition of "cause" for the articles title to be true.

If there was no chemical the addiction to the chemical would not be there. It is obvious.

The existence of the chemical is part of a hugely complicated causal tree that leads to addiction. The argument laid out in the article is a false dichotomy, which is denying one part of the causal tree(the existence of the drug) by pointing to one part of another part of the causal tree(social factors).

Real change (the end of the war on drugs) should come from facts not poorly laid out rhetorics.
I disagree with this article, not because of it's correctness, which I don't care. It is more about the perspective. This kind of "explanation", has nothing good to solve the problem. It is just yet another aftermath "excuse research".

In east Asia, we had an infamous example: Chang Hsueh-liang https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chang%20Hsueh-liang . The problem is clear here: if we could find an excuse for him, then we could for anybody.

Let's ask ourselves this question: do we want our kids addicting to drugs, or do we want ourselves addicting to drugs? If the answers are no, still the question will be, going forward what we can do, which this article has little advice.
This does nothing that important. I do detest annotation soup, but what would be more useful is to simply generate a competent rest service and client from the openai spec. There is nothing performant or magical about using Java here.

In fact the comments on performance are pretty dumb. The JIT compiler is the only source of performance in the jvm and you will never make a performance optimization that beats the JIT
These is just (another) reason for avoiding Spring. Whenever I'm tempted because of XY module that looks good, I'm reminded with feedback like yours that things are still the same.

Oh well, will continue using java far away from that framework.
The decisions that reddit has taken were not affecting me for now. The new ui was horrible for my use case (text subreddits and focusing on the debate) so I was a old.reddit user.

But the way the direction is going, and some experiences in some subs have made me take a decision, and my 12+ year account is no more.

It won't matter, and probably reddit will survive, be it as strong as it is now or in a diminished state. But I'm tired of this kind of directives in these kinds of companies.

I hope that leaving that, and not having Instagram or Facebook on the phone, might give me a little push on being more productive. Wish me luck.
Ah, but wasn't half the fun in the journey.

I sort of agree if time travel was an option, it would be visiting someone in the past and telling them about the things they aspired to know.
Not quite what you're getting at, but there is a Federal law known as the Peaceable Journey Law:

Notwithstanding any other provision of any law or any rule or regulation of a State or any political subdivision thereof, any person who is not otherwise prohibited by this chapter from transporting, shipping, or receiving a firearm shall be entitled to transport a firearm for any lawful purpose from any place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm to any other place where he may lawfully possess and carry such firearm if, during such transportation the firearm is unloaded, and neither the firearm nor any ammunition being transported is readily accessible or is directly accessible from the passenger compartment of such transporting vehicle: Provided, That in the case of a vehicle without a compartment separate from the driver’s compartment the firearm or ammunition shall be contained in a locked container other than the glove compartment or console.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/18/926A
The chain is yanked whem you raise your first round. The yanking stops at Exit/IPO
I (sadly) doubt Lemmy will be it in terms of a reddit replacement (if reddit is to actually lose it's users).

I just really hope it's not discord who will replace it but I fear they have a good shot. And while discord is great for real time communication with others passionate about a topic, it's worse at sorting, ranking and finding old information.
Link to the same article on his personal blog: https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/#hey-guys

Why? It's right the header:

> No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period.
Hmm, so will everything be glued, nailed or bolted down? Looking at local IKEA there is quite a lot of random stuff on display. Both sold in store and also things like books that are not.
Now this is the "headphones for my eyes" I have been waiting for.

I wonder if combining an ebook with a contextual audio track (does this exist?), would work as well as combining an audiobook with visuals (a movie).
There have been a good handful of those. Greenplum is much older, PostgresPro was 2015. I'm sure there have been others too.

Edit: I hadn't heard of Oriole. Neat!
i only bought TFA Dostmann AirControl Mini CO2 Meter TFA 31.5006 Ambient Air Monitoring by accident, it does what it does and is super unflashy so i got another one a year later.
What’s missing is the encoding time difference. AVIFs are slow.
You've described my housing situation exactly, and, for me at least, 1200 sq ft is way too much house. I work from home, too, so a whole portion is dedicated to a non-house work area.

If it helps with your search any, I'd say 900-1000 sq ft would be good for a single person. Obviously, it depends on the person and how the space is laid out, though.
First off, there are two recorders: the cockpit voice recorder and the flight data recorded.

The voice recorder needs power which is provide by the aircraft and is a rolling 2-hour recording. If there is an incident, the captain will pull the breaker to this system to prevent the recording from being overwritten after on the ground, or, in the worst case, aircraft destruction will cause the severance of power to the device for a similar effect.

The flight data recorder a very dependent on all the systems of the aircraft, it listens on all electrical buses, senses the position of controls, and records datapoints at a defined rate for a rolling two hours of flight time. It has a small battery system to capture what it can, but if you lose engine generation and your APU, you either gliding to a crash landing in the best case or you are just hosed and it will be literally seconds before you’ve reached the ground.

Both of these things are not read only, they continually rewrite their memory because it’s usually the last bit of flight data that matters. There are pushes to make a system that can allow for 18-20 hours of flight data, but everything moves slowly in avionics.
I was providing the link as context and a jumping off point for further reading, if you were curious (which is encouraged here). If you're looking for criticisms of Rat Park, I suggest starting with the "Criticisms" section on the Wikipedia article.
I mean the reason should be plainly obvious if you’ve been following the last few days.
Let's all go back to Slashdot.
If a comment or post is particularly unpopular, it can get flagged here, even if it is perfectly civil.

Example: The problem with “doing your own research”
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=31334034

Yes, there is censorship on HN, but it's typically enacted by users instead of mods.
I did read the article and you are misrepresenting it.

E.g. > Mr Clifford acknowledged that the prediction of computers surpassing human intelligence within two years was at the "bullish end of the spectrum"

I watched part of the video, and the interview directly contradicted what you are saying.

I'm not going to spend an hour on the whole video to disprove your dishonest take on it. If you have a specific point; post it.
If Reddit just cared about having the ads, they could have a free version of the API that includes the inline ads. Or otherwise work with API users to blend in the ads for user-facing clients. They could even kick back a share of that revenue to client makers.

As far as I know they're not doing any of that. To me it looks like the goal is to wall off all the user-generated content in an attempt to extract maximum dollars from it while intentionally excluding third parties.
Sorry: Having a hard time with URL. Deleting.
Same. Regardless of how they've bumpy the pay increase and related comms have been, it's their platform. Nobody uses third party apps to access Pinterest, tiktok, Facebook, ig, or any other major internet property and I don't see a problem with reddit running their company to make money. Yeah it sucks that Apollo, rif, etc all are getting shut down.
I think you might be in the wrong place. You're annoyed that people are discussing a 6-month old promising technology on _hacker_ news?
Why don't you mod then? Everyone thinks it is an easy job with all these 'power' perks, then when they get onboard they figure out it is actually a lot of work and mostly just pissing people off because you can never please everyone.

It is like people who say 'those who cannot do, teach'. Hey, maybe teaching is hard work and most people suck at it?

The type of person who thinks mods are all power tripper do-badders who could be easily replaced is usually the type of person who doesn't bother reading the rules of the community before posting, or who resorts instantly to insults in disagreements, or who think it is funny to piss people off.
The difference here is, a,b=b,a will use one less bytecode, by taking advantage of ROT_TWO
Yeah i think extension functions and operator overloading are biggest things in kotlin that are missing in typescript. Its very easy to add functions to existing types and chain the method calls in kotlin.

Edit: didnt know about the brand types in typescript, TIL, thanks for the example.
Spez also presided over the headcount ballooning ten-fold.

He’s chasing new markets, not doubling down on current ones. to the detriment of everyone including his companies profitability.
Hey, author there - HackerNews Effect killed our AWS hosted WordPress ;(

You can find mirror on Substack: https://vived.substack.com/p/the-compact-overview-of-jdk-21s...

EDIT: We did the redirection to the Substack mirror.
1. Java already has succinct lambda expressions.

parameter -> expression
(parameter1, parameter2) -> expression
(parameter1, parameter2) -> { code block }

and function signatures like the below might be "clunky" from your point of view, but IMHO are more clear since they document explicit types. (and you can navigate to their javadoc)

Blah doSomething(BiFunction<String, Integer, Foo> fn)

2. Conceded. There are some JEP's around this but they all got rejected.

3. Already covered in existing discussion. Verbosity level is fine.

4. Context oriented programming can easily be achieved using AOP in java. But frankly is readability and maintainability nightmare in any large project. I have seen projects/apps/libs that used this paradigm (in several languages) be re-written to explicitly designate all contexts.

5. Java with virtual threads now has far better support for async programming than Kotlin or Scala. It is now competitive with Golang in async ease-of-use.
https://blog.rockthejvm.com/ultimate-guide-to-java-virtual-t...

6. shrug. Many popular languages have explicitly rejected function named parameters. Use a struct/record if you want named arguments is the usual answer.
I'm sure the other engineers on the project will have their own opinions here, but for me there's the obviously visible parts to the project (the prompt, tools, ...) and the invisible parts (indexing, tokenising/chunking, parallelising, streaming, ...).

Building agents is an experimental process. You test an approach, maybe it works, and there's not always an obvious reason why certain experiments fail or succeed. We built three prototype agents in a Python and JS, because those languages favour scrappy fast iteration. This helped us quickly nail down our approach to the 'visible' parts.

Once we nailed down our approach, we rebuilt the agent in Rust because the speed and safety favoured all the 'invisible' parts of the project.
Yes and no, the tech of a forum is not interesting, but fostering a healthy community that generates value is an eternally novel problem as every success has been the result of good timing more than anything else.
Ask HN: What do you think of actors spreading malicious packages with ChatGPT?
Summary:

"* People ask LLMs to write code
* LLMs recommend imports that don't actually exist
* Attackers work out what these imports' names are, and create & upload them with malicious payloads
* People using LLM-written code then auto-add malware themselves"

https://twitter.com/llm_sec/status/1667573374426701824?s=20

Description of Attack:

We have identified a new malicious package spreading technique we call, “AI package hallucination.”

The technique relies on the fact that ChatGPT, and likely other generative AI platforms, sometimes answers questions with hallucinated sources, links, blogs and statistics. It will even generate questionable fixes to CVEs, and – in this specific case – offer links to coding libraries that don’t actually exist.

Using this technique, an attacker starts by formulating a question asking ChatGPT for a package that will solve a coding problem. ChatGPT then responds with multiple packages, some of which may not exist. This is where things get dangerous: when ChatGPT recommends packages that are not published in a legitimate package repository (e.g. npmjs, Pypi, etc.).

When the attacker finds a recommendation for an unpublished package, they can publish their own malicious package in its place. The next time a user asks a similar question they may receive a recommendation from ChatGPT to use the now-existing malicious package. We recreated this scenario in the proof of concept below using ChatGPT 3.5.

https://vulcan.io/blog/ai-hallucinations-package-risk

- - -

From a cybersecurity perspective, it seems like a fairly interesting technique for spreading malware on a greater scale.
I'd say it's better than shutting mods and power users out of better apps entirely. They could also do things like give mods of subreddits past a certain subscriber/activity threshold free premium to help them mod better.
Moring, this is looking really simple to adopt, good work.

First question: is there maven already available for this library? Mostly to ease upgrades in the future.

Second question: what strategy would you recommend for adding https on the communication channel?

Thanks.
Lemmy Usage Charts
This page reflects all Lemmy instances, not just lemmy.ml. See [1] for stats on the larger fediverse, including Mastodon, etc.

1. https://the-federation.info/
Yeah that was saying if you crushed n injected it would be addictive. No. It was addictive in literally any form. They knew that too, n it wasn't on the packaging.

You kind of have to be a monster to say something that callous.
Will submerging computers make data centers more climate friendly?
That's true for GCP as a whole, but for that one salesperson the numbers probably do still make sense.
Maybe a link to the project would be better: https://github.com/sansyrox/robyn
If they spent the money in the right places, i.e helping people or organizations get back on their feet after a breach, that would be more fruitful. This whole 'we're gonna sit in your computer chasing bad guys' is just shenanigans.
The trouble is that images are a large fraction of the page size even for well optimised websites. Using smaller images via changing format often makes a significant difference in the page load time.

It's also relatively easy for new formats to be adopted - the html picture tag makes it really easy to serve the same image in multiple formats to allow for backward compatibility.

And of course image decoders are easily distributed - JXL's encoder/decoder are open source.

The combination of those two factors probably means that this will never be a settled area now. It's fairly easy for websites to adopt a new format and there are strong reasons to. Means, motive and opportunity.

I reckon Chrome will cave in eventually. The pressure on browser performance is intense. Unless they want to see Safari faster in benchmarks of image heavy pages they will have to adopt it.
https://web.archive.org/web/20060212093806/http://blogs.msdn...

It's unfortunate that the MSDN blog shufflings over the years resulted in losing all the comments on the original post...
Creative Constraints: Making Memorable Music Videos on a Budget
Years ago during the maxwellhill r/technology debacle, many users did that, and we're all banned. My first primary account, which today would have been 13 years old, was banned.
There’s a central-London IKEA scheduled to open soon on Oxford Street on the Fitzrovia side - I think it’s the old Oxford Circus TopShop site. I’m looking forward to it!