skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Announced yesterday - https://www.americanbar.org/news/abanews/aba-news-archives/2...

AI and ML systems and capabilities will transform virtually every industry sector, including legal practice, and reallocate the tasks performed by humans and machines. These changes raise complex and challenging legal and ethical questions for the legal profession.
Not sure you're going to shift US corn subsidies without changing the electoral system. ;)

To me, substitutability is key.

If you tax unhealthy food, but unhealthy food is the only option (from physical, financial, and time perspectives), people just pay more to eat unhealthy food.

If you tax unhealthy food, but also require healthier and low-cost options at the same establishment, then people begin to have options. I.e. do I want a $10 Big Mac or a $3 grilled chicken sandwich?

Even getting the Big Mac less often would be a net win.

And I call bullshit if McDonald's tries the "But it's impossible to run healthy food through our supply chain..." argument.
You can look at the 'record lows' map and see that the vast majority of these wells are in the south west and California.

And for the east coast and Mississippi region, they don't use deep aquifer wells, they use rain-charged ground water wells that fluctuate with the climate.
If the product got good enough you’d have a shot at selling to Canva.
As he says, any other language. His problem is that there is no use case to translate English to English, so they should choose something else. Maybe the users last non-english language?
To that point, though, aren't those services $10 - $30 per month? If they're able to sell this for $99 - $240/month, surely they'll see competition, leading to a race to the bottom?
I don’t watch Netflix anymore because there is no content worth paying for. I kept it for a while because my kids were watching cartoons now on paramount+. So I cancelled Netflix and now enjoying some quality content on paramount like start trek.
This isn't unique to Netflix. Women make up the majority of non-sports TV viewing in general.
Based on that rationale, anyone using Typescript is being exclusionary to developers who don't know Typescript.

They picked a system that suits the projects work flow, is well documented and a relatively low learning curve for anyone interested. I doubt cvs would be the main turnoff for someone looking to be an OpenBSD developer.
We have two major air forces (RAF, USAF) operating in the UK plus a naval air service and army air corps, so an abundance of airfields is unsurprising…
Whatever you use, add PAR (parity) files.

Personally I would lean towards SSDs mainly because an HDD failure can mean a broken mechanism and a nightmare recovery process while an SSD typically fails by becoming read-only. (Good-brand) thumb drives are also a solid option especially if you make multiple drives containing the same data and store some off-site.
My guess is this one: https://learn.udacity.com/courses/cs212, "Design of Computer Programs".
What a crazy choice of background color. On the other hand it kinda signals that the developers themselves designed it which is generally a good sign of other characteristics of a project.
Svgomg – SVGO's Missing GUI
the rise in obesity correlates to the rise of HFCS in food and also the "war on fats" in diets around the 80s
This should come with a few disclaimers:

(*) In Australia (subscribers are up by 17M globally over roughly the same time period)

(*) For unclear reasons (not necessarily due to the password-sharing crackdown - and these are year-on-year growth numbers while the account sharing change only happened a few months ago)
Everyone's Netflix recommendations are different, based on your viewing history. There are plenty of male protagonists in their stable of content, lol.

Maybe there's another explanation.

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-66472938

https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/katieheaney/facebook-kn...

https://mashable.com/article/bisexuality-queer-tiktok
What is wrong with Forbes?
There are degrees of insecurity. Typing secrets into a terminal is not good. Typing secrets into a terminal with telemetry is worse.
also means that OpenAI can just swap in Llama 2 and increase their capacity by orders of magnitude

this is the age (or year) of token price arbitrage
It sounds like a system designed to stop doing things on unexpected input. The designers chose correctness over robustness. It's not an accidental vulnerability.

Maybe switch off on request is a dubious design choice for infrastructure that you'd rather stay alive, but it sounds like a new version of the spec has already been released to make that an option.
Here is the original report from Meta - https://www.politico.eu/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/29/NEAR-F...

I personally think HN might have been targeted (though Meta isn't announcing the smaller forums).

I've been cross-referencing splices of some of the talking points mentioned within the document and cross comparing with post history over the past 5 years, and there does seem to be some artificial conversations by low karma (sub-500) accounts, as well as by some higher karma accounts.

In fact, one example Meta found was posted ALMOST WORD FOR WORD TWO TIMES on HN - "The Diplomat Magazine Exposed Yan Limeng and Guo Wengui"

@Dang you should potentially look into this, or maybe considering changing certain norms and rules about discussions in HN.
What is a taste unit?
It's not impossible that fine-tuning would also help RAG. but it's certainly not guaranteed and hard to control. Fine-tuning essentially changes the weights of the model, and might result in other, potentially negative outcome, like loss of other knowledge of capabilities of the resulting fine-tuned LLM.

Other considerations:
(A) would you fine-tune daily? weekly? as data changes?
(B) Cost and availability of GPUs (there's a current shortage)

My experience is that RAG is the way to go, at least right now.

But you have to make sure your retrieval engine work optimally: getting the very most relevant pieces of text from your data: (1) using a good chunking strategy that's better than arbitrary 1K or 2K chars (2) using a good embedding model (3) Using hybrid search, and a few other things like that.

Certainly the availability of longer sequence models is a big help

Sharing this relevant discussion from LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/feed/update/urn:li:activity:7101638...
Multiple Notepad++ Flaws Let Attackers Execute Arbitrary Code
> And yes, I know that money wins in legal battles. That's why I am focusing on discovery before I don't have any.

When they send you several thousand pages (minimum) of random documents you're looking for a smoking gun that's a needle in a haystack.

That takes money and time that very few parties have, coming back to the last dime expression.

I don't know if you've ever deployed your strategy successfully but needless to say I wouldn't count on it as a viable path to protect your IP against companies valued in the tens of billions of dollars.
Java, kind of with Akka or similar, although even with that one always be aware of blocking. Loom should help. Node: not really unless something dramatic has changed. Using 32 cores is going to require 32 separate node (OS level) processes, and your on your own for providing communication between them, plus callbacks aren't near as intuitive as the BEAM process model (think green threads)
We should also mention that the PDF documentation has some graphics showing how these components are (physically) connected together at https://dps8m.gitlab.io/dps8m-r3.0.1-archive/R3.0.1/omnibus/... (pages 49 through 52).

If you'd prefer not to have to view the PDF, the images are reproduced here: https://imgur.com/a/x3fy4nO
I thought you were joking, but Wikipedia does mention a tradition that Newton invented the cat flap. They call it an urban legend though.
While the claim of google being a privacy nightmare is broadly correct, the page is full of incorrect/misleading claims and half-truths. Here are the issues I can find with the first 5 claims:

>2) Reading all your emails. Even if you don’t use Gmail directly, but you’re sending email to someone who does. [5] [6]

Didn't they say they stopped scanning emails for advertising purposes? I guess it's technically true that they still scan for anti-spam purposes, but even privacy-minded email providers like protonmail do that.

https://www.theverge.com/2017/6/23/15862492/google-gmail-adv...

>3) Saving all your web traffic if the website uses Google Ads, Captchas, or Analytics

This is misleading because "your web traffic" implies all the content that's on the page or you submit. Google is getting all the urls of the pages you visit, but I highly doubt they're exfiltrating page content or form submissions.

>4) Everything you do in Google’s Chrome Browser is recorded, including even how long you are idle on a page. [7] [8]

Isn't "everything you do" in firefox recorded as well, through browser history? floc just provides a way to report that to sites in the form of cohort categories. I'd prefer if my browser didn't report my interests to whatever site I visit, but "everything do [...] is recorded" is a terrible way of describing the issue.

Also, I can't find anything supporting the claim of "including even how long you are idle on a page" in the eff link, and the other link is broken.

>Even if you turn location features off [...], it still saves your location via Wifi triangulation, which is the process of pinging nearby

This claim is not supported by the sources cited, and is explicitly denied by google.

https://support.google.com/android/answer/3467281?hl=en#zipp...

>[...] or set the phone to airplane mode

Is this an issue? It's called "airplane mode", not "privacy mode". If you want to turn off location services, turn off location services.

>Wifi triangulation can figure out your real location, even if you have a fake IP address from a VPN. [14]

Well no shit. Anyone with the slightest knowledge about how geolocation apis work will know that they're unaffected by that.
They'll let pretty much anyone write under their banner.

https://www.niemanlab.org/2022/02/an-incomplete-history-of-f...
I assume that a paywalled article without an archive link in the thread is going to be a discussion in which almost nobody has actually read the thing they're talking about.
Great for CI maybe... not so much on the traveller's dev laptop where you want to be quick and often operate on a broken internet link.

So, as much as I appreciate what Russ Cox is doing in general, how to just switch it off?
> Feinberg and her lawyers received an eye-popping $69 million from the settlement. Her share — around $40 million before taxes, hit her family bank account last week, said Feinberg, 39. “I’ve got three kids, and I tell them, ‘Doing the right thing is the right thing, no matter what the outcome is,’” said Feinberg

As JP Morgan said, a man always has two reasons to do something, a good reason, and the real reason.
Except its not on the amazon streaming service it will be for $3.99 rent on prime video like the blockbuster days again.
> Even terraform is a decent deploy tool

Terraform for k8s pods/workloads instead of `kubectl apply` YAML files?
The problem of course is most people aren't going to deliberately produce an LL grammar. It's very easy to take your language into LR territory by accident and if you've centered your features around a particular LR-able process, converting to LL may be extremely hard or practically impossible.
Xordle is the most fun variant, the association between the two words is a nice little clue and they seem to come up with good puzzles every day
I did a $5000 brake job on a range Rover in 2000. The way people let things go I can easily see $2000 going up in smoke with one visit to the shop. EVs are not going to work out unless we double battery capacity and half the weight and charge times.
Forbes is more similar to Medium (although not as open) than it is to the NYT or WSJ.
The number appears scoped to Australian subscribers. Australia only has 25M inhabitants, so it's more significant than it sounds.
Corporations will do whatever they want to until we have unions in this country. Mass layoffs, termination with no reason, dictating how they want the workforce to be exploited. If this generation cannot see that, I hope younger folks or our kids will make this country a better place to live and work.
Basically, procedural trash grinds?

Squadron 42, the cinematic, single player, space campaign, was supposed to come out in 2014!
I dont have the data to evaluate if it's true or not, but netflix content surely doesn't appeal to me. They lose licenses for older shows that I found somewhat interesting, and their original content is terrible.

So yeah, I dont know if it's because I'm not the target demographic but I haven't missed it since I canceled 1 year ago or so.
https://github.com/ggerganov/kbd-audio

It's quite good at decoding my own typing, although I am a quite aggressive typist and that may help. I haven't tried it on others, though (honest, officer).
Whether the term "vaporware" applies to SC is kind of subjective IMO. The server meshing feature has been advertised for a long time and it still hasn't been shipped. Though they did add object persistence a few patches ago which really changed the game for salvaging.

I bought the game based on what I see people doing in it already, and it was fun enough for me. That definitely won't be the case for everyone and I recognize that. So to me it's not vaporware and there are lots of other people still enjoying the game today.
What non-malicious use case is there for this?
I didnt find an article about actual hacks carried out with that technique, but here’s a HN discussion [1] from this month about a paper on the topic.

From that discussion it sounds like you need to train on data captured from the actual target. Same physical keyboard in the same physical space with the same typer.

Pretty wild despite those specific conditions. Very interested to know if people have actually been attacked in the wild with this and if the attackers were able to generalize it down to just make and model of a keyboard, or if they could gather enough data from a stream.

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37013704
In addition to missing oklab/oklch, the article is also wrong in claiming web/css supports only srgb; css color() function supports many colorspaces
AI images are getting harder to spot. Google thinks it has a solution
Agreed that this is on the browser makers. Not sure how the incentives align if the desktop version is actully an offline experience. Advertising and tracking might be compromised?
They’ve crowdsourced a lot of their Maps data for information on specific businesses through the Local Guides program.
Wrong again, the intention is to denounce the impact of burning man and force it to reduce. Publicity, good or bad, remains a very effective means.
Because you have to pay those humans their royalties when their content is consumed.
No, absolutely not. How can you trust the output from such a black box system? Who is to say that the LLM won't add or remove data points to make the chart "look good"? Heaven help us if decision makers start taking this output seriously. But of course they will, because the charts will look professional and plausible, because that's what the prompt requires.
> I think long term consequences are already completely inevitable

Degradation vs. collapse. Collapse is still preventable, but the window is closing fast.

If we'd stop fossil fuels, reform agriculture and reforest what we can, we'd be able to reverse the warming and let biodiversity rebound. Continue for a few more decades, and the carrying capacity falls drastically.
Ask HN: Do we need so many vector databases?
It seems like we get a new one almost every week. Why are there so many? isn't pgvector enough?
Nym?
Python is popular because of the ecosystem that’s been built around the language.
From the TFA: "that holds annual contracts valued at $6.5 billion with nearly every U.S. government agency."

4.6%, maybe not a rounding error, but definitely cost of doing business area
Am I missing something here? From the video and examples this looks like it's helping you make Excel charts with less suck (slightly stylized), not really building what I would consider "infographics" in the traditional marketing sense. I guess it counts as visualizations, but not what I was expecting.
"The combined effect of better architecture and Elixir saved Pinterest..." I appreciate that they also call out better architecture here. People often read these kinds of headlines and think "Oh Elixir is better than python" or whatever.

I remember when twitter had fail whales constantly and they rewrote it from ruby to java I think. At the time everyone assumed it was all ruby's fault, and that might be partly true. But it's also true that the engineers who rebuilt it understood the problem much better now, and knew the major pain points. They also completely changed the architecture to be better suited to the problem. I submit that a lot of rewrites could happen in the same language and still have major gains.

All that being said Elixir is great, and particularly well suited to these kinds of problems.
I have a Boox and it's a surprising pain in the ass to just have it sync a folder. Not really an Android thing. You can use Syncthing or various third-party apps that sync a folder off Google Drive, but I'd like to just use Google Drive like on a desktop.
I come to HN to avoid comments that leave me brimming with anger.
And I've seen it 0 times since joining in 2007.

Happy that it was re-posted today - I spent about 20 minutes on it.
this is not true? every single pin has a big button underneath which takes you to the original webpage where it was saved from. and if it was manually uploaded by the user and lacks this kind of metadata, you can scan it visually and it shows you all the other uploads on pinterest which match it approximately, and usually one of the matches has better metadata.
As someone who struggled with depression at university, I'd say that's the only useful advice.

"I am failing because I am not studying enough."

Granted, I could introspect on what was preventing me from studying, leverage additional college resources, align to my learning styles, etc.

But until I accepted the above as an honest objective truth, and a path to change, I wasn't able to be successful.
I haven't tried Llama for code generation yet, maybe I should give it a try now
"Alleges"? That's not the title of the article. They were caught and agreed to pay a fine. Although they were able to not admit any wrongdoing.
Glad your team is not ridiculous. My team treats the daily as a report up to our boss, and our boss treats the daily as a time to go on a long monologue
There’s a version with autocomplete here:

https://jaredkrinke.github.io/elevatorsaga/

I swapped in VS Code’s editor component (Monaco) and added TypeScript type declarations someone had posted. Note: The official game isn’t accepting PRs anymore, but details and code are here: https://github.com/magwo/elevatorsaga/pull/137
Northern areas are usually damp enough to enable mosquitoes even without any explicit swampland. Half of the year is snow, which produces a lot of water, and then a rain once in a few days equals mosquito paradises.

Arguably it is already not fair that some people get to live in temperate areas whereas the other in cold ones, but it is then compounded by the fact that cold areas get unbearable amount of biting pests.

So it would be just great if mosquitoes are removed from the equation somehow. I believe the best way is actually frogs. I'm not sure what happened to frogs in those areas. Is it too cold for them either? Should we have arctic frogs?

In areas where frogs encircle every pond, no mosquitoes to be seen.
They aren't just speeding up existing python code, they are making a superset of python which has additional performance features.

I guess it's possible that these features will be introduced into cpython etc. but I doubt it.
Early Rust was pretty expressly influenced by Erlang.

The green threading runtime was removed in 2014, shortly before the 1.0.0 release in May 2015.

The reason for the waning influence was exactly that: couldn’t be reconciled with systems use cases effectively.
In the early 90's I was still using 2400 baud, maybe 9600
Does OPDS support sending to the server the current position in a book? That's basically the only feature I would need a server for. Books are synced with Syncthing, no need for anything fancier than that. Of course the ebook reader must be able to send the position to the server when in the same network.

I'm also almost always in 4G coverage but there are planes, trains, mountains, tents in the middle of nowhere, etc. Apps that work offline are a safer choice.
I think it might have been more about how patent law works. There is a precise window defined for revealing invention to filing for it, same for selling something before patenting it (1 year).
They really should teach benchmark training more widely in the industry. Even though I'm readily here to sing the praises of Elixir when warranted, nothing beats actually profiling end to end the workload(s) in question that need to be improved. Sometimes, it really is optimizing the database that matters most, like adding an index (or using window functions or stored procedures, as in many cases I've had in the past)
It had direct criticisms of capitalism too, if I recall. There were characters that thrived and drowned under many of the different social orders presented there. The main character tried to adapt to all and ultimately lost himself and everyone he knew in pursuit of his constantly changing ideals.
>The best way to learn more about AI in Workspace is to use it, which is why we’re excited to open up Workspace Labs to the public and manage the waitlist as we scale to even more users and countries in the weeks ahead.

Google's definition of generally available is we've opened a google form for a waitlist that we'll forget about in a week.

The CTA button seems to redirect to contacting sales for a Google Workspace Trial.

Seems like someone in the org is panicked about Microsoft's O365 GPT integration
My Mathematics Genealogy (2017)
I'd say there are more valuable things you can do to improve security than solving the problem of "having to ssh in with a password one time to upload a key"
> Booz Allen last month admitted no wrongdoing while paying a $377 million settlement

I wish I could get away with that, but i'm middle class.
Indeed. But this is about the ability to transfer the domains to Cloudflare which was not possible earlier.
If they've figured out how to deliver performance that Python might get around to in 5-10y, shouldn't they tout that, for people who might want that now?

Ultimately promoting the possibility for better performance, & current contrast, is good for prodding other languages/runtimes like Python to match these options. The "important things [get] absorbed" process you mention relies on teams making some "play for" alternatives, to create the impetus to get new things integrated.
I assume you mean "survive sustainably on Earth"? That's certainly our most important issue; we'll all be long dead before any off-world settlement could be self-sustaining, either planetary or space-based.

Those things aren't mutually-exclusive though.
i'm the developer (non-designer) responsible for this, and dying laughing, so thank you!