skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if you noticed but the economy optimizes to toss and replace versus fix.

Fixing things is a drag on next quarter profits. Buy the upgrade with the ten cent fix at 10% markup over the original because it’s “new and improved”.

We’re just circling old inputs like an LLM trained on itself.
I’d argue that when he was muckraking against Goldman Sachs and the “Great Vampire Squid” of investment banking, he was already at least bordering on “pat conspiracy” territory.

People noticed less because he was muckraking for the “right side”.
> "In “Suttree,” for example, one character has carnal relations with the entirety of a farmer’s watermelon field."

if you write a novel with something like that then you know what will go in your obituary if you get famous
But as the device is in the attacker's hands, even a good power supply could be compromised by replacing or removing capacitors that are used to smooth out the power rails. You'd have to open the device up to do it, but eg to get at the keys inside the secure enclave on an iphone, a couple devices could be sacrificed for the cause.
> How about shoring up the social safety net like other developed countries?

Genuinely curious: how is the mental-health and drug addiction nexus dealt with when one has an unwilling participant?
Charlie Brooker Is Still Pro-Technology Despite ‘Black Mirror’ Season 6
Ask HN: What are you using for LLM response testing and benchmarking?
What are you using to test your LLM responses, benchmark them, maybe compare different versions?

I've seen a few YC startups focusing on this but I haven't decided yet if we should build this internally or use an external tool.
Dr. Fauci was quite clear about it being dangerous, no? Of all the government officials to name for downplaying COVID, that's an interesting one.
Agreed. In fact, I believe success stories actually skew the other way. Those that actually build something that gets off the ground and is successful will in many cases not have the time to write perfect code.
Nah, this was solved by most teams a while ago.
> Yelp's business model seems to work best if they can pick winners,

People must have read a different article than I did. This woman is finding tons of third-parties that are either posting fake positive reviews for money, or extorting businesses by writing bad reviews and offering to reverse them for money. She's looking for people who are trying to scam Yelp, or trying to scam businesses through Yelp.

But HN seems stuck in a narrative (for a decade, not new) that Yelp is some sort of organized crime syndicate, and refuses to budge.
Have to point out that this includes second system optimizations. Just porting C over to Zig won't give you that 3x reduction. For others, I also highly recommend the video linked in that blog post.
That is an interesting idea, but I can guarantee employers would fine ways around that very quickly. For example, maybe the law stipulates that employees must be compensated for 80% of salary, so employers start paying mostly in benefits and equity. Or we specify 80% of total compensation, and they find a way to say healthcare is worth nothing and grossly underestimate the initial value of equity. There's always a way. Banning it outright doesn't even guarantee it will work, because cartels will agree not to hire each other's recently departed employees.
He’s responding to the theory that some parents/teachers believe that if you can’t do X by age Y you’ll never be a top performer.

He’s saying you can still train but you don’t need to hit 10k hours in a specific skill to excel, especially in complex fields like team sports or creative thinking.
> It was already basically unenforcible to have an unpaid non-compete in New York (through common law)

That is not true - there are four criteria for non-competes to be valid in NY, and payment for the duration is not one of them.

> I don't think that is true, or at least I have not seen that anywhere. My understanding is this bill removes any kind of non-competes.

There are two bills - one of them requires payment for noncompetes.
It’s pretty interesting how the work they’ve been doing on plugins has fed into this.

I suspect that they’ve managed to get a lot of good training data by calling the APIs provided by plugins and detecting when it’s gone wrong from bad request responses.
a close family member swore they got covid at CES 2020. they went to vegas and came back real sick for a couple of days.

i remember in 2020 or so they were also talking about covid being in the sewage in some european city (i think in italy? and/or spain?) but my assumption was they were detecting things that were also common in other influenza strains.
Ads are someone being paid to write/publish about something. Are you claiming that’s happening here?

Also, I’m pretty sure a lot of the original photos are simply blurry (from motion) or slightly out of focus. Some of the other previews are much sharper.

Check out the beard: https://www.apolloremastered.com/shop/p/as07-04-1596

Luckily photos don’t have to tack sharp to be great. In fact, many awesome photos (on or off planet) aren’t sharp at all. I don’t care at all about the obvious motion blur in this great photo, it even seems fitting: https://www.apolloremastered.com/shop/p/as11-36-5390

(Though I would agree, you picked one that would be greatly helped by being tack sharp and where it being out of focus detracts from it. I still think the composition is great and that’s probably why it made it in.)
I reboot most weeks, just to make sure the right stuff happens when I do. (I try to do it in the middle of the day, so there's time to sort out any matters arising.)

A couple of times I've discovered I've forgotten to set stuff to auto-run on login, or things turn out to have lost their settings, or stuff doesn't work for whatever reason - I'd much rather discover this at a time of my own choosing!
> There was one point where the reporter was interviewing a guy from the ATA (American Trucking Associations) where the ATA person says that one lost life is too many.

You see the same crap inside companies. All-hands rah-rah meetings or zoom calls or mass emails with this kind of stuff in it, then the next day, directives to the contrary. Or, the handbook says to do X, for safety reasons, but your supervisor says to do Y that will be impossible to accomplish if you do X, like you're supposed to.

In union shops the workers often have leverage to point at the handbook, laws, or contract, and tell their supervisor to get fucked, but others just have to deal with it or find another job. Ditto non-safety stuff like violating the company's own policies on shift scheduling, or overtime wage-theft, or any number of other things.
Yes actually I feel the last paragraph completely contradicts the title and tone of the post.
> there is a chance that the NSA did intercept Carlson’s attempts to secure an interview with Vladimir Putin

they did, this isn't insane to believe either, they did this to jeff bezos too. US intelligence excels at signal intelligence, this isn't a conspiracy. it then goes on to make even less sense:

> Tucker Carlson has never been an intelligence target of the Agency

duh, but obviously putin is, why are they deflecting? this is low quality reasoning that fails to address any meat of the arguments.

plus, what does any of this have to do with matt? and covid? its like every time i ask a question there's more and more deflections away from the original topic. its so strange.
God damn that's impressive.
Zap sounds fast and active, which is definitely a goal of the project.

Zag sounds like it's inefficient.
I'm not going to engage with this directly, but for any other readers passing through - this is nonsense. One more drop in the flood of uninformed AI noise that's been drowning out the signal.

Choose the sources you trust very carefully, and look to the people actually working on real-world AI systems, not the storytellers and hangers-on.
What's semantic caching?
> assert the most inane drivel

Thank goodness that never happens here!
> Yeah especially TVs right? Every single one of them it's been the caps.

Yep, TVs are particularly good targets.

I knew someone who would make extra money by trawling around neighborhoods looking for TVs that have been ditched, recapping them, and selling them.
Yeah, I rarely use composite indexes in Postgres. Only if I want to squeeze a little more performance out of a frequent combo query.
Paying the wage of the new offer leads to bad incentives w.r.t. nepotism. It also discourages starting your own small business where you tend to pay yourself a small wage.
By the time you have enough clarity to create a "playbook", you probably have enough clarity to reproduce and to automate.

That said, there are still a ton of solutions where "playbook" is kind of the right call. "DB is out of Disk Space" is probably "Increase the size of the disk reservation" for most modern cloud-native companies. They rarely rise to the level of detail that proponents of "Playbooks" suggest, though. How do you do that? Is it clicking through the UI? Do you have the CLI command prepared? Have you thought about why disk space usage has grown suddenly? This is the sort of thing that may be a no brainer you were expecting (in which case - Why didn't you complete the operation in-hours?) or it could be the "That's funny[1]" moment that precedes a major discovery.

[1] https://quoteinvestigator.com/2015/03/02/eureka-funny/
I don't trust this article at all.

> Sources within the US government say that three of the earliest people to become infected with SARS-CoV-2 were Ben Hu, Yu Ping, and Yan Zhu. All were members of the Wuhan lab suspected to have leaked the pandemic virus.

> It is unclear who in the U.S. government had access to the intelligence about the sick WIV workers, how long they had it, and why it was not shared with the public.

At absolutely no point in this article are any new "sources" pointed out.

The authors make that statement early on so as to make the reader think something new in the article is going to be revealed.

Instead we get multiple paragraphs of links to various quotes and suppositions from various people, some of whom were involved in investigating the origins and some who work in the field.
is not the library that is calling these shots.
The thing is the relevant context often depends on what it's trying to do. You can give it a lot of context in 16k but if there are too many different types of things then I think it will be confused or at least have less capacity for the actual selected task.

So what I am thinking is that some functions might just be like gateways into a second menu level. So instead of just edit_file with the filename and new source, maybe only select_files_for_edit is available at the top level. In that case I can ensure it doesn't try to overwrite an existing file without important stuff that was already in there, by providing the requested files existing contents along with the function allowing the file edit.
On top of that, your shareholders will want to know the actual number of active users.
Sorry, I meant product owner, not manager. At least I got the abbreviated version correct, though.
No problem! Thanks for taking the time to check us out!
It doesn’t, but it makes it easier to mandate an API for ‘special government access’ when there’s already an API mandate in place
The assets would be anyone who does business with them.

I don't think you truly appreciate the money being left on the table with your 'just'
I meant SIP protocol VOIP that can also send and receive SMS via a server.
I can't make sense of this article. It is a bit rambling and seems to mix quotes from different times.

"Politicians, scientists, journalists, and amateur researchers for years now have zeroed in on the possibility that Covid-19 may have resulted from U.S.-funded gain-of-function research conducted in China."

And the authors leave it at that. Maybe some references to articles would be nice? Or should I just trust their meta-analysis or what.
Tell us all about Willard's booming economy and the wide swathes of open jobs available to new residents there...

... in a town of 250 people, where nearly a third of the population lives below the poverty line.

The ONLY people that benefits is the residents of SF or wherever, that successfully managed to "make it someone else's problem".
How is prohibiting truck transport on Sunday good for other road users? You'd be eliminating 14% of hours in the week, which means a corresponding higher density of trucks on non-Sunday days
> however in many people's eyes, there's a "but" there that if not suggesting it certainly implies "but we should certainly consider it"

Sorry and thank you. I'll be more blunt: we should not criminalize homelessness, putting these people in jail for being poor or mentally ill or addicted beyond agency is inhumane, and maybe if we deal with this problem we'll be less afraid of dumping the millions of Americans wrongly jailed and withheld from career development by the state back into the world.

If we continue to provide zero solutions between doing nothing and jailing, however, jail it will be. That's the political reality I'm pointing to.
the other problem is tyres. we use super singles on our trucks and the tractors, trailers and rigids have the same size tyre.

385/65 R22.5

to have a flat floor on the trailer with the smaller tyres you've now got to stock another size of tyre or run dual tyres on the trailer.
Lying is not a great place to start off with a new employer.
It gets worse. People have been 'following' the ratings when they rate foods.

A popular local restaurant came under new management and their food is now atrocious. We actually threw their food in the garbage after getting takeout there a month ago.

Meanwhile, tourists are still leaving thousands of rave reviews on their google maps page. Noticeably, you will see one or two bad reviews every 50 reviews or so, where a person comments about their confusion about the restaurants score.
OpenAI integration is going to be a goldmine for criminals in the future.

Everyone and their momma is gonna start passing poorly validated/sanitized client input to shared sessions of a non-deterministic function.

I love the future!
Show HN: AI Brain Bank – The Ultimate 'Chat with Your Data' App
Hello HN, this is my first full stack AI web application that combines the power of LLMs and persistent long-form data to allow you to chat with large amounts of novel data.

Chat with any text file, pdf, audio file, web page URL, YouTube video, or even entire YouTube channel. Your input data is saved, so you can log in and chat with it any time you'd like.

Here's how it works: you create a context (a folder), and choose a variety of data sources to upload - if they are not native text, they get transcribed into text. From there, you ask the AI any questions you want, and it intelligently searches through all the data you've uploaded to come up with an answer.

Some quick example applications:

- Asking questions about specific details in a large PDF file,
- Chatting with YouTube channels to see how a particular individual/knowledge base would answer,
- Creating a context with the financial data of multiple companies, and comparing them simply with natural language questions ("Compare company X's revenue with company Y")
- Course notes and studying for school: upload all your course materials and textbooks into a context, and ask away!

Looking forward to your feedback, and please let me know if there are any issues with the site.

Cheers!
Interesting stuff! I will say as a basic UI request: it's very much a good thing to highlight a small amount of content at one time, and let the rest "fade" a bit - consider rethinking the fat bright orange borders on everything. Maybe some grey borders? Just my opinion.

Love your opinions on inlining and timers - never thought about those
Well I've had my car broken into, and I've been assulted twice by homeless people--once spat on, and once physically jumped/attacked. (Edit: also the more I think about it, the more I remember other scary/dangerous incidences)

Nope, none of this changes my feelings, and certainly does not grant me "depravity tokens" that I'm now allowed to cash-in. "Hello, I have five depravity-tokens from being treated badly by a homeless person, I'd like to spend it on treating them badly in return."
> Granted, for something like legal advice you: 1) shouldn’t go Reddit; and 2) should search for an attorney.

Counterpoint, not everyone has access to an attorney, a mechanic, a doctor (sadly), tradesperson, or any number of expensive professionals when someone just needs to know if they can ignore something, can fix it themself, or if they should seek out professional advice. These communities can be of great help to people who just need to guided to the next step.
> losses in transmission & charging the battery

Significantly more losses in the manufacturing, refining, delivering, and distribution of gas.
The moniker “conspiracy theory” seems somewhat limited on the whole. I can’t think of a better name right now, maybe “public theory” vs “academic theory” ?

There is nothing wrong with theorizing either, but conspiracy theories often start with the conclusion, and then try to find what facts can fit that narrative. That’s how you can discern more critical theories from just made up stuff or disjointed data points to fit the narrative.
But was my comment more snide and reductive than your "okay, and what are you using your wifi for" quip?

I mean, I get that you want to see homeless people better supported. But championing their right to masturbate in public is I think going to get your cause more opponents than supporters.
I love keyword moderation. I love finding ways to demonstrate to those using it that it's futile by using only non-offensive words to thoroughly offend people. I was given a talking-to by a game administrator once for naming a match "Your granny rides my throbbing purple rod." It didn't contain any no-no words, though!
> So now we know that sites target this bit to block, but the real question is why? Is it that someone didn’t see the date of the RFC, maybe sarcasm doesn’t translate very well, possibly someone in the real world actually sent the evil bit when doing evil things, and cause some products to target it?

The evil bit could be something of a self-fulfilling prophecy. Because no one uses it, that makes it a source of bugs/vulnerabilities; therefore, anyone setting it deliberately but not maliciously (such as for a joke) will want to turn it off; only those who want to exploit it maliciously will keep it turned on; hence, anything with an evil bit can be safely assumed to be, in fact, evil, and it should be filtered out automatically.
And what exactly does "hospital" mean in China? I know in India a hospital can basically be a small clinic, not unlike an urgent care center in the USA.
> I watched this last night, and it's always interesting to people in business talk about the cost of saving lives.

My favorite example of this is the "children under 2 don't need their own airline seat". The idea was that if you required a separate seat, more people would drive. That in turn would lead to more fatalities as the fatality/mile in cars is so much higher than in planes.

I would also point out that if someone has purchased life insurance, they have explicitly made a decision about the cost of a life when they choose the amount of insurance they are willing to take on.
Yes, but the coincidence of 3 gain-of-function researchers being the very 1st simultaneous infectees would be far more remarkable than a crowded place being the 1st spot that's noticed as a cluster.

No matter the origin of a new highly-nfectious respiratory disease, certain dense public places will quickly turn up as locations-of-spread.

But 3 researchers with likely larger-than-average scrupulosity about infection risks, working on increasing the virulence of bat viruses? Pretty sus!
Yes, this is true. However, the fact that reddit was where they got it means OpenAI capitalized on something that was given for free, and now reddit is trying to do the same and failing (because they have no value proposition).

It's sad that the place where all the users stored their data is getting burned down because it offered free access.
It depends. Few lessons could be learned from Soviet times, taking Marzahn district in Berlin as an example. You need to integrate suppliers of construction materials, pre-fabricate large construction elements and design buildings from standardized elements, adding some variability on facade and layouts to make it looking more fancy than Plattenbau. Whole district can be designed and built at once to ensure availability of healthcare, child care, public transportation etc. This allows to design projects and build quickly, reducing bureaucracy. One more step to accelerate time to market is to sell without interior elements like floors or shower, just raw walls and connectors to water, sewage and electricity. The new owners/tenants may then design interior themselves or purchase standard design. They may be obliged to finish interior works by a certain deadline in the same time frame as neighbors.
"I remember reading a claim that logistics companies will often tell their drivers to break traffic laws"

I don't think most drivers are waiting for permission from their superiors to break traffic laws...
As a European I see this kind of accident as a non issue because we use roundabouts. It is only important in the back of the truck.

The main bug is using so many square corners road junctions in the US. Those are super dangerous.
It would be cheaper to house them than to jail them.
It's not: https://sfgov.org/sfc/sanfranciscowifi
Core came at 5.3% YoY for May 2023 and 0.4% MoM.

It has been quite sticky, an seen little change compared on a 3 months annualized to May 2022 (5.3% vs 5.8%).

It might as well be a dead man walking, in the zombie apocalypse sense of the word.

Source: https://www.bls.gov/news.release/cpi.nr0.htm
In my googling this week by far the vast majority of promising reddit links for my searches have resulted in the "r/[subreddit] will go dark..." message instead of the discussion. Usually only the first reddit result has the "Cached" link available. I suppose there's probably a way to force Google to use the cache for other links but knowing that there's a cached link available is already something few regular users are aware of.
Despite Advances in AI Technology, Still Not ‘Good Enough,’ NGA Official Says
Internet search in general has severely declined in 2023. I was trying to figure out the syntax for putting a URL in slack the other day and couldn't find a proper article anywhere in the top 10 results.

I think they are trying to integrate their bard UI into search and it is killing the results.

At this point, I use google to search reddit in order to find organic results. Unfortunately, that will probably be taken over by spammers soon enough.
This is the sort of thing that comes back to bite you. Websites that you think are down and ignore for now, annoyed but ok happens, only to later notice it was your own doing.

I played this on myself by setting X-Forwarded-For: '" which would trigger an sql error if someone assumes an IP address is safe to insert without escaping or parameterization. Very few sites broke, but the first one that did I remember sold TLS certificates.
Show was refreshing as a tonic in the age when everyone was a techno-optimist, but now that everyone is a techno-pessimist to the extent that the selling point for the recent breakthroughs in Gen AI is “give us money because in the wrong hands it will trigger an apocalypse” I don’t know how well it’ll land.
Certainly, a weird coincidence that many of the people worried about it being a lab leak early on, also had downplayed it and practice little caution to avoid getting it.
I'm always amazed when I search for any generic term on Google Maps at how many places I know about don't show up in search results. What a shame. They clearly ran out of new ideas years ago.