skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article's main point is that you can change the story, but the actual example he gives is a change in the facts--the actual facts weren't what he thought they were. That is why the story changed--because he found out that the actual facts weren't as bad as the "facts" he had previously believed were true.

So it's not true that "the actual facts are a small part of the story". They are the story; you can't change the story unless you find out the facts were different. At least, not if you're being honest.
Oh, please no, unless those third parties used it as an option for authentication rather than the only means of authentication.
As someone who has experienced several serious floods, this is my favorite example of imagery's ability to craft a reality:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cgm3_jzcNm4

Floodwaters tend to stir up a lot of dirt and mud, so the water is usually totally opaque. That makes it very hard to tell how deep it is. A lot of overhead views of flooded neighborhoods look completely disastrous, but in reality it's just a foot or two of water that will just go away once the drains can handle it.

But, sometimes, flooding really is severe and the damage is monumental. But it can be hard to distinguish those from imagery. Every picture of a flood looks biblical.
I was happily using 5 Airs for several years, whilst my colleagues had to carry their bulky Pro around.

Now my wife switched to the M2 Air, but I cannot use them anymore since they abandoned 32 bit support, and I need that for my embedded simulation work. Also the keyboard and OS sucks.
I think you just got hit by their marketing page that hides the fact that there's a free plan. I'm on the free plan and I was able to send out a document with three signers. https://rr.judge.sh/Screenshot%202023-07-20%20at%201.03.45%E...
https://lipu-sona.pona.la/11.html

I suppose I can agree with this page saying it "simplifies" thought, but not in the good way.
It'd be a gargantuan project to do so, just trying to match property data alone would be massive.
I think you know the answer to your question, more than likely this won’t see the light of day outside of federal usage.

Far too much lobbying for any REAL competition to shake up the industry.

This will be exclusive to the federal government and state governments I imagine.
Your are totally correct sometimes you gotta provide something for free to prove the value of your product
Exactly this. When some government makes a big public proposal to invade privacy, Apple will speak up with bravado. But they won't say a word in all the other cases when a government demands to invade privacy when those demands are made in secret.
How animals are evolving to survive in the age of wildfires
> On one hand, a single country can't just flood the market with a valuable material.

Why not? Seems like the start of the path to post-scarcity civilization. Once nothing has value and everyone has everything I'd say that's a win.
The fact that there are companies that have the power to shift public policy is the problem. Because they use that power for their interests that don't align with our interests.
Well said. :D
maybe it was slightly too subtle for me to have used single quotes in my comment and not pointed it out. in this case they would have been more appropriate

it's entirely likely this was just a formatting mistake, but it still feels "off" enough for me to get uncomfortable and stop reading
You clearly dont have many friends or relatives that you actually interact with
> Fracking for geothermal wells will supposedly not use toxic fluids.

I'm interested in learning more about this. Could you share the source from which you learned this?
You gotta press enter again lol
> 10-25 feet isn't reasonable for a no-filming police abuses zone. It can make it crime for someone who is handcuffed and being beaten by police from recording them.

Has that actually been interpreted by a court in that way or are you proposing a hypothetical? Your interpretation makes all dashcams illegal, which makes many Tesla and Toyota cars illegal.

The way I interpreted it was that people who are not part of a scene need to maintain some distance for safety.

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The legality of filming police is thorny. For instance, a number of states passed laws after LivePD became a thing that barred the filming of traffic stops. That, however, contradicts the abilities of citizen journalists to document traffic stops and interactions.

Personally speaking, I don't want to be filmed during a traffic stop unless its my own footage. When I was arrested and went to jail the police posted my mug shot to every local paper and crime reporting website. It took quite a long time to scrub the internet of all of that once charges were dropped. Footage would be much worse because at one point after my head was driven into the ground I was sobbing. My instance also involved the police roughing me up because they perceived me to be "strong".
I also saw a woman naked once, 10 years ago. Doesn't mean I could accurately sculpt one today.
It's not even past.
thanks for sharing this is very useful
I have a pretty common name, with a number of famous folks with the same name (mostly dead) and others who are listed on various sites.

It used to be (>ten years ago), Google would return information about me, specifically, on the first page of results.

I made an effort to remove specific references to me and it's been mostly successful. I can still be found on whitepages.com/yellowpages.com and various background check sites, along with a bunch of other folks with the same name.

If you know where I live or my age, you can probably work out who I am from those, but otherwise I'm not googleable (or bing/ddg-able).

Every few years I go and do some ego surfing[0] to make sure things stay that way.

This post caused me to do so again and I was pleased to see that I'm not in Google or Bing results (except as noted above) at all.

Even my pseudonymous handle here is used by other folks on various other public sites, although mine is reported on the first page of searches.

Other pseudonyms I use are likewise mostly not reported either.

Which is just the way I like it.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egosurfing
Early access to this and the degradation of GPT4's output quality allowed me to cancel my GPT4 sub. GPT4 may be smarter than what they are using for copilot, but it takes too much effort to get working code now, whereas in March GPT4 was almost a code printer.
cough 737 Max cough
I have another post they commented on. They can see my historical posts.
In the US you need a super majority (of legislators or states) to amend the constitution. You'd have to do something like that. But the UK government system isn't really set up like this, there aren't the checks-and-balances of the US. (It's just civil servants undemocratically dragging their feet/slowing down processes they disagree with... which is not democratic.)
Your only critique is that SICP is old. Computing power and performance are irrelevant to SICP.
What description are you referring to? He didn't speak English, and we have no voice recordings.
> Was the spanish flu actually that bad

Yes.

> was it actually a fairly bad flu that wreaked havoc on a war-torn population?

No, because those affected worst by it were young adults in relatively good health. Small children and the elderly were proportionally spared. The prevailing theory for why Spanish flu killed more healthy young adults was because it was an over-reaction of the immune system itself that was most harmful:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cytokine_storm

It is definitely the case that the war led to many young adults being moved around the world and kept in close quarters, which certainly exacerbated the spread and effect of the pandemic.
Being discussed here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36800297
Awesome to see Snakemake discussed here and many thanks for the positive feedback below. Thanks to the awesome and very active community, Snakemake evolves very fast in the recent years, while being widely used (on average >10 new citations per week in 2022).
The best overview about the main features and capabilities can be found in our rolling paper, which is updated from time to time when new important features become available. It also contains various design patterns that are helpful when designing more complex workflows with Snakemake.
You can find the paper here:
https://doi.org/10.12688/f1000research.29032.2

And here is a little spoiler: I am currently working together with Vanessa Sochat on implementing a comprehensive plugin system for Snakemake, which will be used for executor backends but soon also for Snakemake's remote filesystem, logging, and scripting language support (and maybe more). The current implementations of those things will be moved to plugins but still maintained by the core team. This approach will enable a further democratization of Snakemake's functionalities because people can easily add new plugins without the need to integrate them into the main codebase. The plugin APIs will be kept particularly stable, so that Snakemake updates will in most cases not require any changes in the plugin implementations.
Generating songs with coherent speech and sound effects
The best examples aren't at the top by the way
A short explanation of what JPEG XL is or does at the beginning of the article would have been nice. Saying:

"""Google PIK + Cloudinary FUIF = JPEG XL"""

Before saying what it is, was a little of-putting.
Yes, misuse and misappropriation of funds is such an uncommon event for fortune 500 companies. Especially the CEO, they have to justify every little expense!

In what wonder world are you living?
That has saved me more times than I care to count. "Oh, that's why that code was there. I see."
> with universal support for pretty much any encoding being an inevitability on at least all software players

This is not a good assumption. MKV supports a loooot of things which many video players will not support at all.

And IIRC some browsers do not support MKV.
having criteria for inclusion is not censorship
HN has such love for that early 20th century writer. So many seemed to have discovered The Fence at about the same time.
> The US has an absurdly consumer friendly legal environment; you simply say you didn’t do the transaction and your money is immediately refunded;

US consumer laws don't hold a candle to European ones - it's not even close.

Have you ever gone through this process yourself, or are you stating the idealized version of what should happen? I'd like to hear the bank you were dealing with, because mine tried to give me the run around ("It's not fraudulent because your PIN was used"), and I had to fight them over many calls to get a "temporary refund" by threatening to involve a state ombudsman. Later on, I got a letter in the mail that said the investigation was complete, and the refund was now permanent, only to have the refund yanked again months later.

Caping for American banks in this day and age is weird. They are mostly terrible and will rather have their clients take the financial hit before they do - even if they have to lie or frustrated you with long holds & multiple calls unless you show them you mean business.
Did you forget the `-a` option on the nms command? Works for me on a Mac with iTerm2
Show HN: RAGstack – private ChatGPT for enterprise VPCs, built with Llama 2
Hey hacker news,

We’re the cofounders at Psychic.dev (http://psychic.dev) where we help companies connect LLMs to private data. With the launch of Llama 2, we think it’s finally viable to self-host an internal application that’s on-par with ChatGPT, so we did exactly that and made it an open source project.

We also included a vector DB and API server so you can upload files and connect Llama 2 to your own data.

The RAG in RAGstack stands for Retrieval Augmented Generation, a technique where the capabilities of a large language model (LLM) are augmented by retrieving information from other systems and inserting them into the LLM’s context window via a prompt. This gives LLMs information beyond what was provided in their training data, which is necessary for almost every enterprise application. Examples include data from current web pages, data from SaaS apps like Confluence or Salesforce, and data from documents like sales contracts and PDFs.

RAG works better than fine-tuning the model because it’s cheaper, it’s faster, and it’s more reliable since the provenance of information is attached to each response.

While there are quite quite a few “chat with your data” apps at this point, most have external dependencies to APIs like OpenAI or Pinecone. RAGstack, on the other hand, only has open-source dependencies and lets you run the entire stack locally or on your cloud provider. This includes:

- Containerizing LLMs like Falcon, Llama2, and GPT4all with Truss
- Vector search with Qdrant.
- File parsing and ingestion with Langchain, PyMuPDF, and Unstructured.io
- Cloud deployment with Terraform

If you want to dive into it yourself, we also published a couple of tutorials on how to deploy open source LLMs for your organization, and optionally give it access to internal documents without any data ever leaving your VPC.

- How to deploy Llama 2 to Google Cloud (GCP): https://www.psychic.dev/post/how-to-deploy-llama-2-to-google...
- How to connect Llama 2 to your own data using RAGstack: https://www.psychic.dev/post/how-to-self-host-llama-2-and-co...

Let a thousand private corporate oracles bloom!
Cops have always been triggered by the mildest of disrespect, this has nothing to do with people worrying about social micro-aggressions.

What’s actually happening is that cops are being filmed and because of that people are losing respect for them faster than ever and the cops hate it and want to do anything they can to prevent people from disrespecting them.
> I don't know how practical it would be but an outside-of-memory data data compression algorithm would be cool.

What does "outside-of-memory" data compression algorithm mean, exactly?

> What I like so far is that lzav is a single header file

That's cool indeed.
The theory-heavy approach has seemed stranger to me the older I've gotten. Watching a lot of improvisational players in jazz and jazz-adjacent genres, a lot of their playing seems to be "structural" (based on physically where certain notes are, and the direction they're moving in) rather than theory-based. Think "just hold the octave while walking this triad down chromatically" vs. a reasoned series of extended chord resolutions.
Google says Apple employee found a zero-day but did not report it
Filling it with a vacuum however...
Agreed. 90+% of the times that I've wanted to compile something, I couldn't. I suspect that it was mostly because of missing or outdated dependencies. The only things that I can reliably compile are image encoders.
I'm advising on calls with firms that have existed since the 1800s: their clients don't even want LLMs involved in output, regardless of who's hosting what.

Companies that don't play fast and loose are not using LLMs yet. They use "old school" ML at most with much narrower scope because at this point it's simply less of a liability.

You seem to think I'm underestimating what Azure's name adds to OpenAI: I fully understand how bureaucratic organizations work off vibes under the guise of name recognition and my point is I simply have no respect for it.

If you genuinely care about customer data, then the value of being able to sue MS instead of OpenAI is moot. You also probably aren't going to use a service that shouts from the roof tops about not using your data then quietly keeps it for 30 days unless you manually opt-out. You probably don't use some model with unsolved copyright/PII questions. And a million other unknowns

> The part that matters is operations - both technical and legal aspects - and this is where Microsoft and OpenAI are independent and have different offerings.

You might want to check OpenAI's subprocessor list if you think that they're not the same technically...

https://platform.openai.com/subprocessors/openai-subprocesso...

And Azure's subprocessor list is a superset of that list, not a subset.
I'm not convinced that they're worth it for people who know how to program. If you want to write better Python at work, learn how to write better Python at work; don't waste your time on learning how to write a loop in scheme.
The web from 10 years ago is very different from the web today. High quality content is found more and more in closed gardens like Discord. The spammers have gotten better and better tools to automate their production of low quality trash more and more.

A lot of tech people have started to use the trick of adding reddit to their query, since it is one of the few bastions of actual human beings talking in volume in the open web. But even that might stop working, if reddit decides to close itself to google, and the way their leadership is doing things, I wouldn't doubt it.
Explore the fundamentals of operating and leveraging binary serialized data structures in this deep dive into effective and efficient data utilization.
How TheTruthSpy stalkerware made its millions
Yes, seriously. Your editorializing made the text longer, so it's dishonest to say it was "to fit the character limit."
Yeah, what would we possibly do with a near unlimited supply of one of the most conductive metals that is also extremely resistant to oxidation?
You can't use it in an open-source project. Open source licenses don't restrict commercial use.
I love glorifying doing things the hard way as much as the next guy, but the fact is dependencies are a way of life.

We build on the shoulders of giants. We pull in other peoples code because we don't want to duplicate work, ours is likely not to be as good, any code is a liability, and sometimes _we just aint got time for that._
The blog headline is "dope shit only", but this blog entry is the lamest account of a lame "industry" with the lamest "point" (if there even is one?) I've ever seen.
This kind of black and white thinking is defeatist.

China: already a lost cause (before iPhones and messaging existed, in fact).

The UK: a leading western nation.

Let's try to have western countries not be like China? The UK could be a domino... if it falls the authoritarians in other western countries may be emboldened to follow.
But you need the mushroom and elk to satisfy the fallacious superficial gatekeeping of the reviewers.
From what he described, if you take a (local's salary + overtime) * 1.x, you would get his non-overtime US-salary pay. US workers also get more paid holidays than locals (doubly so depending on the month you join).

US workers making x% more than locals for the same job seems like the locals are taken advantage of, not the US workers.
I went from being a notion advocate to a hater. Perf, mobile apps, and pricing weirdness have just made it clear it's no longer a high quality product but another enterprise-y Jira type product.

The early notion product was really performant, the mobile apps were ok enough and it had good ideas.

Now my last remaining notion sites sit on my to do list to be migrated to an alternative. The mobile apps are trash. Working with notion is painful.
We live in a set of time slices that we are able to control through the choices that we make as we slide through the deck. The past is done and locked up, carved in stone and can be recalled with high fidelity if we choose to dwell there. The future is always in your face - another decision to make, lives to influence, bullets to dodge - all presented as you color the current time slice with the events your choices allow. Choices are filters on possible paths for your future, some can be looped many times while others permanently exclude specific outcomes. As we color the time slice we can know parts of the future by understanding consequences of the choices we are making though we can't know it will all fit far into the future. The past is left as an exercise in recollection to serve up reminders of all the unpleasant loops we threw in our life path and most importantly, to help us choose a better, more productive path when we find ourselves at a similar node in the future.
No, my counterpoint is that Target’s strategy seems to have worked, and also that there exists the possibility that someone would opt to not shoplift at all due to the harsher penalties set by Target, and being unsure how widespread that practice is.

To be clear, I think the actual problem with shoplifting is systemic suppressed wages coupled with inflation and arbitrary price hikes by corporations.
Web3 is like Professional Wrestling with its own concept of kayfabe (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kayfabe). If you're in the industry, you know that it's fake, but you have to keep appearances to engage and grow. Those that were convinced that Web3 isn't an act end up being "marks" -- they just feed the money to those in the know.
I hate hyperbole. The correct title is that your memory of the past is incorrect.
Possibly an underrated but potentially very useful unique feature of JXL is that it completely eliminates the need to use a third party thumbnail/image-scaling rendering site or workflow. If you need a full size JXL image rendered down to 25% size for one of your web views, you literally just truncate the bitstream at 1/4 the total (or whatever percentage of the total number of pixels of the full-size image you need, that's a trivial math calculation) and send just that.

That's tremendously simpler, both from an architectural and maintenance standpoint (for any site that deals with images), than what you would usually have to do, such as relying on either a third party host (and added cost, latency (without caching), and potential downtime/outage) or pushing it through the (very terrible and memory/cpu-wasteful codebase at this point) ImageMagick/GraphicsMagick library (and potentially managing that conversion as a background job which incurs additional maintenance overhead), or getting VIPS to actually successfully build in your CI/CD workflow (an issue I struggled with in the past while trying to get away from "ImageTragick").

You get to chuck ALL of that and simply hold onto the originals in your choice of stateful store (S3, DB, etc.), possibly caching it locally to the webserver, and just... compute the number of pixels you need given the requested dimensions (which is basically just: ((requested x)*(requested y))/((full-size x)*(full-size y)) percentage of the total binary size, capping at 100%), and bam, truncate.

Having built out multiple image-scaling (and caching, and sometimes third-party-hosted) workflows at this point, this is a very attractive feature, speaking as a developer.
This type of mentality is readily observed amongst abusive parents. "That was a long time ago, why can't you move on?" "You were a sensitive child."

I will never understand people who seem to lack the ability to see that their actions may have a rippling effect throughout someone's life. One can meaningfully and negatively alter the trajectory of someone's life with one action.

I'm not advocating that we live in neurotic paralysis wrecked with the fear of unknowingly hurting others, but we should accept that whatever hurt we do inflict can have long-lasting implications, and when others shed light on ways we may have hurt them, that we lean in, understand, and make amends if possible.

We are all connected.