skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
In Australia we cull feral cats. We don't trap, neuter, release:

https://www.agriculture.gov.au/sites/default/files/documents...

We're not likely to release a neutered cat back into the environment where it will kill more native creatures. Feral cats have already caused the extinction of 20 native species.
I'm not a lawyer but I think saying anything about the model would be in beach of the NDA then? Maybe they went and go special permission to say that the model hasn't been changed since launch?
You split
The past is not true
Children of Time is incredible, I would consider it the best sci-fi novel I've ever read in a similar way to how I consider Wheel of Time the best fantasy series I've ever read.

As for books vs show, in my opinion it's way too early to tell. Both me and him agree that the first season was significantly better than Eye Of The World, but because the later books are much better than EOTW I think the show will need to increase in quality significantly to be better than those later books - I'm excited for season 2, but in season 3 they're tackling the story of The Shadow Rising, which is probably my favourite book in the series. It's an open question in my mind if they can improve quality and characterisation enough to match that bar, although either way I'm going to enjoy it. And more importantly, I think it's not as important to judge them on a season vs book basis, because the reality is the show can't really be judged fairly against a completed book series until it is itself a completed television series. Once they're both finished (aka once I'm an old granny), I expect I'll have a much clearer idea of which rendition of the story I ultimately prefer. I know I'll definitely be talking about it with my husband a lot lol.
What other language or languages do you use at Cloudflare for new performance critical stuff?
pour out some liquor for my homie
It very much depends on exactly what kind of intelligence role they're in. Few CIA members are doing wet work. Exposure to the intelligence community sheds light on a lot of information that the vast majority of people don't have access to, and can be a pathway to lucrative careers in government or industry.
Chinese grammar is far more simpler.
"Spy Kids" has a trademark and sells video games, I don't see why this isn't trademark infringement. Surely the CIA would be aware, could Disney have approved it? Wouldn't there be notice at the bottom then?
Hmm, I wonder which material properties contribute the most benefit to that application. "Abrasion resistance per weight/thickness" seems like it would be somewhat lower on the scale for whips than it is for motorcycle rider protection.
I doubt that falsifying data was "okay", just unnoticed. A systemic managerial failure, rather than a rotten culture per-se.
The cost of the lockdowns was more than a missed party or two.

And the point of the study quoted above is that jurisdictions that did not implement lockdowns did not experience increased mortality
>There's nothing keeping age peers from hanging out and being friends, just because they're at different levels in different subjects

Nothing tangible. But your peers you do work with very much influences the kinds of peers that become your friends.

But that's tangential to the real point I was making: socializing around a bunch of different peers your age in a specific nigh mandatory environment helps develop a sense of public etiquette. How to socialize, how to figure out who you do/don't want to hang out with, how to manage arguments or de-escalate tension. Potentially delaying or skipping that can be catastrophic, and you can argue that there's so many people today that feel like they never got that.

This can theoretically be replicated outside of school. But given how few venues of loitering there are these days for adults, I don't have much faith that we'll create such places for minors.

>the kid who does well in language but not math would end up friends with the kid who does well in math but not language, helping each other and challenging each other to succeed in a positive fashion, rather than ending up pitted against each other by the fundamental structure of the class structure.

It's all theoretical. But my experience makes me much less optimistic of that outcome than you.
That’s ok. If you don’t want your kids to be spies in the future, just say some stuff online that the agencies will dislike but which is not illegal to say.

Hopefully that will discourage them from recruiting your children in the future. After all, who would want to hire the sons and daughters of a person who raised them with views that run so obviously counter to the opinions of the agencies.

Edward Snowden is a humanitarian hero, and I will raise my kids to know that that is true :)
I was just reminiscing about the days when every random website had a “games” section. We got to bring that back.
It says it was 111 degrees, but presumably that’s the outside temperature, right? What would the temperature inside the plane be? It must have been pretty hot given that people were starting to pass out.
I'm curious how this will impact Radon release from deep areas of the crust. For context, a Radon risk map of the US: https://www.epa.gov/sites/default/files/2018-12/documents/ra...

Uranium and Thorium decomposes into Radium, which themselves are found at 450m but the gas then rises through the Earths crust as it moves. I could see this kind of constant agitation releasing significantly more at least within a radius.
As per the hypothesis I stated, I think your problem is running Teams on an Apple system. I'm not defending Microsoft releasing a shitty product here, but I think it's most likely they didn't bother to properly test/debug it for other OSes and configurations than "embracing Windows and the Office ecosystem".
Eh, social engineering was and still is a major component of infosec, right?

He was very good at that segment of the industry ("penetration testing" via social engineering).
Transposition has little to do with theory. Any player who has musical practice but no knowledge of theory understands the notion of changing keys. If you think this is something acquired by learning music theory you should revisit this idea.
Apple earned $50 billion from iOS gaming last year. I'm willing to bet most of that is coming from games using dark patterns and gambling tactics. For all their posturing about caring for the customer when it comes to privacy, they sure don't mind trapping them in gambling debt if it gets them billions in return!
Phone numbers for airlines listed on Google directed to scammers
This isn't about recruitment, it's about PR. If the CIA is friendly and fun and cool, then you'll keep it funded. Period.
I would guess because it's “spy game” and not “spy kids”. Seems like there is no way those could be confused.
"Moreover, any loss in alumni giving at the elite institutions would presumably be at least partially, if not fully, offset by additional giving to alternative institutions where parents of wealthy students might donate as an alternative, and the wealthy students themselves would become alumni. "

I think that paper over-indexes on exactly that argument - that having a relative attend the school is just a proxy for wealth, so they would give just as much anyway if they went to a different school. It doesn't stand to reason at all that the donations will be transferred to whatever other school their kid attends, donations like this are not fungible and do not scale linearly - if everyone in your family for five generations has gone to Harvard, and your kid goes to Arizona State, you aren't suddenly going to build a family tradition of loving Arizona State. You're more likely to simply dilute the strength of the family-college connection and not donate at all, or donate a perfunctory amount and put the rest into the opera you attend these days. I didn't look up the authors of this study, but they certainly didn't bother to mention any familiarity with the field of fundraising, which isn't as straightforward as they make it sound. Even if the strength of connection was the same, do public schools have the same skills and desire to request donations as Harvard does?

To test that hypothesis: they should check the Arizona State alumni to see if the number of relatives who attended Harvard is just as good a predictor of donations to Arizona State, because it's equally as strong a proxy for wealth when you attend Arizona State as when you attend Harvard. My bet is that it's a very weak predictor!
I’m not sure how other browsers’ dev tools do on this front, but at least in Chrome most requests in the Network tab will link to the file/line of code which initiated the request. From there you should be able to set breakpoints or whatever to track subsequent requests.
My parents vaguely remembered who Kevin Mitnick was when I gave my father my copy of 'Ghost in the Wires' to read.

I told him, this was the 'hacker' of the 80s, read how he managed to 'hack' all these places. My father replied, "I'm pretty sure I won't understand anything he would do". Me, "Just give it a chance, you'll be surprised"

When he gave the book back, I asked my father if anything Kevin did my father wouldn't have understood. My father said, "I understood everything he did". I asked, "Now, when you get a call from someone you don't know claiming to be an authority figure, what do you do?". Father: "Hang up"
It's been said that video games today are glorified Pachinko machine but people are in denial
To the contrary, it increases my trust.

Just the fact that Stanford managed to conduct an independent investigation against its OWN PRESIDENT, tells very positive things about the University.

After this episode, I might trust Stanford research even a bit more than any University that never caught fraudsters.
There is some hope for improved M&M in pancreatic cancer: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-023-06063-y, thanks to personalized mRNA vaccines and PD-L1 checkpoint inhibitors.
I’m in the same boat. I have been manually copy pasting stuff from ChatGPT.
Aside from the barely-related rants in this thread, you can all calm down because you still need a battle.net account, anyway. It's probably going to be the same garbage as the EA app, and how it's tie-in and perpetual running services need to be running at-all-times in order to play their games.
int(phone number) "contained all ten digits" is the main embellishment. KM used different acct#. check delivery was weeks later, after negotiations. either way kevin was OG AF ..|..
This smells like cost savings, but besides that: Safety and performance are diametrically opposed. I would expect it to get worse. Eapecially innthe short term while they test different apporaches.

ICE cars have also “gotten worse”[0] over time, not better.

[0] based on having more safety measures getting in the way of raw speed.
Couldn't they just not inject as much water into the injection hole? Then presumably the steam hole would stop making steam.
The vas majority of data these models are built from are from public sources. It's already out there. LLMs are just a way to aggregate pre-existing knowledge.

And there are also Ted Kazinsky in the goovernment and big corporations with way more power and way less accountability. Dispowering the public is counter-productive here.
It strengthens mine. Science is self correcting in a way the religion and politics never can be, they keep making the same faith based mistakes over and over, while science continues to progress. Evidence of that is everywhere you look, whereas politics and religion have barely made any progress in hundreds of years.
The “games” are all tests for different information-analysis tasks. It might be PR but it’s definitely recruitment, too.
Surely you mean “ducking”? :)
From https://gnustep.github.io/ "GNUstep provides a robust implementation of the AppKit and Foundation libraries as well as the development tools including the advanced interface designer Gorm (the InterfaceBuilder) and the IDE ProjectCenter (ProjectBuilder/Xcode)."

Has anyone tried building linux apps with Gorm and ProjectCenter? And how long ago? I feel that gnustep has been around for a long time, at least a decade at this stage. I think it was available as a desktop choice for Ubuntu 12.
Bipartisan senators propose stock ownership ban by lawmakers, admin officials
So relieved to finally rule-out the flat elf theory
Yes, that was what I was saying.

The "no evidence" comment is not made by the paper itself - it was made about a much weaker 2008 study. The linked paper actually claims that legacy admissions do increase alumni giving by implicitly favoring wealthier families. I think both papers have flaws.
I was just thinking, his obituary is both the worst kind of, and the absolute definition of, the term "hacker news."
Having worked extensively with the major frameworks in multiple orgs, I have largely found that templates synced with state via change detection (like Angular) result in more readable/maintainable projects.

While I personally like React, it's pretty tricky to use in reality. I have found that its idiosyncrasies make it less resilient to suboptimal contributions from engineers that are still early in their careers.

Broadly, the projects I have entered using React tend to be pretty wild, messy and unreliable.

There is cross over though, Angular projects using Redux (ngrx) are horrific. The criticism of Angular for me is the lack of control you have over the compiler, dependency versions and testing strategy.

Svelte and Vue are both interesting, but they use custom file formats (.vue, .svelte) which can add an extra layer of unreliability to projects using TypeScript and testing frameworks.

The advantage of Angular is that it's an ergonomic abstraction that allows optimisations to occur at the engine level. It's more like an ORM, where React is more like writing SQL queries directly.
I genuinely do not understand why anyone thinks that LLMs for customer service is a good idea.

I want to avoid having to talk to someone from a business at all costs. The only time I (begrudgingly) reach out to customer support is when I need to accomplish something that I can't do natively through the service. If a LLM can do the task, then just make it part of the service. Why add a LLM middleman?

I do get that I might be a bit weird and there are folks out there that like to talk to someone. But these people are probably even less likely to care for LLMs than I am, since they value talking to a real person.
Not necessary - both parents were doctors but I became an engineer.
And no - They were not in it for the money.

Although they worked really hard they were always passionate about their work and truly loved helping people getting better.

But I realized early enough that I did not have the same level of commitment.
Possibly that ploughing money doesn't automatically produce results?
>Having these skills would give most people an edge in whatever line of work you are in.

Yes, and you can probably learn 80% of those skills yourself without having to spend years and a small fortune on a formal degree in journalism.
I mean, the CIA helped Walt Disney set up the insane property deals he used to build Disneyworld, so it's not outside the realm of possibility.

edit: oh, I misread your comment and thought the CIA page was making some specific references to "spy kids." But now that I've looked, what's there doesn't seem to infringe on anything.
Gob-smacking how few options there are where real deep discussions happen. Just jaw dropping how much HN is the one.
This reminds me of something I hacked together to get these ligatures into other fonts:

https://github.com/sandtron/auto-ligaturizer
> Also sounds like you haven't actually used Azure OpenAI

On the contrary, I am using Azure OpenAI daily at work, and I'm explicitly not allowed to use "regular" OpenAI offerings.

> It has the same 30 day retention for legal reasons unless you manually request (just like OpenAI)

It doesn't, at least not for us.

> Azure OpenAI has a narrower built in filter that you can't modify without again, a separate request.

I'm not sure if it's narrower, but it is there and I have a strong suspicion that MS is just trying to extract additional rent from companies that really want to turn the filter off.

> Azure OpenAI overall is mostly for companies that need to signal to other companies that they're using Azure: it's no more commercial than the OpenAI offering.

No. Azure OpenAI is for companies that don't play fast and loose with data - their own data, and their customer data. Of course, most companies don't give a damn, but for big enough companies, or those operating in certain industries, there are actual, severe legal consequences for mishandling the data, and such companies don't have the option to just not give a fuck and dance with OpenAI - they need to sign an actual contract with a serious entity that understands regulatory compliance, and how corporations tick. Microsoft is such entity. OpenAI isn't.
WebAssembly Polyfill (run WASM in vanilla JavaScript)
It is not just the ssd, the pc bios had design problems in it's allocation for drive geometry (Cylinders, Heads, Sectors) and the first limit found was that it was unable to represent drives larger than about 500 Megabytes. Drives very quickly(early 90's) started lying about their geometry to get around this limit.

There were various schemes of this and it finally ended up with abandoning physical(CHS) addresses entirely and just let the drive figure it out by moving to a flat address model(Logical Block Addressing), note that LBA mode was around long before SSD's

http://www.steunebrink.info/bioslim.htm
I had a nightmare flight recently - 48 hours to fly 6 hours. Direct flight canceled, overnight in hotel, missed connections, total nightmare. My assistant tried for an entire day to get reimbursed by various airlines for the problems and we got half the money back but somehow United stonewalled us. Don’t even know how to complain.

Bottom line is - not going to travel for at least a year, and told my family to research places we can drive to. Flying is an absolute mess and I’m not going to do it anymore.
No, video games do not use dirty tricks from gambling to attract big spenders. Gacha/lootbox does. Two completely different things. Given how majority of people just read the headline, this is just bad reporting.
This is super cool! We built something in the same vein but using Mux as a way to dog food our products[1]. This is certainly doing more product-wise, though in terms of being similar shape-wise to Loom.

I noticed your demo example in your top comment isn’t working, which made me suspect you’re just using the raw MediaRecorder output, and sure enough. Unfortunately…that’s just not going to work for any “real” use case.

MediaRecorder is well known in the video infra world as being incredibly crappy videos, to the point of being difficult to transcode reliably much less just use directly as a video for playback. Sorry to be the bearer of bad news, but there’s just no way of avoiding a proper transcode (if you care about the videos created from any supported browser being playable on the gamut of browsers).

[1] https://stream.new
That’s a pretty charitable summary of the issue of pressure vessel safety. I’m just a hobbyist with tools in my garage and I’ve avoided buying an air compressor for air powered tools because I don’t want to have a pressure vessel to maintain. If I know this, industrial operations definitely should.
Blackstone’s march to $1T marred by trouble at flagship property fund
https://archive.is/eCrTh
Pretty neat, thanks. Would be interesting to see some overall stats about all dollars under management with the same graphs, etc, instead of just employer sponsored plans.
Can you elaborate on the problem? I've successfully used LLMs to format unstructured data to json based on a predefined schema in a number of different scenarios yet somehow missed whatever issue you're describing in your comment.
Signals have their own shortcomings as well. Once you leave the "re-run the render function on state change" you suddenly are dealing with implicit dependencies, stale closures, cyclical updating, and all sorts of weirdness in debugging things, figuring out what triggered what, etc.

Signals as a concept existed well before React and I think part of the genius of React is actually not using them. In a way a signal is just a very simple version of RxJS that Angular is moving away from, with a lot of the same downsides, just without all the pipe/abstraction mess.
Very interesting, this makes sense, it is definitely a direction we could go into. We are using Postgres and were also considering using 1 schema per tenant.
So what I don't get is why they don't have it as two tiers, aka if you make software and sell it. Your software and all dependencies must be certified.

The people doing certification must have a active hand in the development process of the specific software component. who, at their option can charge for certification.

This would allow open source projects that are used in industry to charge for certification labels, to the commercial companies that require it. But non-commercial which does not need a certified stack, is business as usual.

Seems like it would incentivize funding of open source, right? As long as the fees are low enough, no one will fork. But since only the people maintaining the project can make (and optionally charge for) certifications, it would incentivize knowing your software stack, and paying for maintenance/contributing back.