skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was a fun little presentation, nothing super-new there but it did have a good idea about showing the trust level of the application with a badge.

All credibility was then swept away by "Sign up with Google" to the mailing list on the last page. Hilarious.
It's AIs all the way down!
Using AI to Decode Animal Communication (YouTube)
> But clearly in their design of the system they hadn't considered it.

They might well have considered it the possibility of duplicate tags in the same flight plan but since identical tags are supposed to geographically distinct, they probably didn't further consider a flight plan where the entry and exit points from the UK (which is a relatively small airspace, I think) are the same tag (since it sounds from the report they did that this was an extremely weird flight plan.)
This sounds plausible, but can't be the only reason why they fired the ceo no?
Doesn’t really work. Plastic bags are paid in CA and they are still littered all over the place. Most clerks don’t even charge you the ten cents or whatever. If you want them gone you make them illegal and force biodegradable options that are more expensive to now be the only option on the marketplace.
Ask HN: Protection Against Home Router DDoS
My friend is a live streamer on Twitch, and whenever he plays on Nintendo online with viewers, there is one viewer who has been sneaking in, somehow obtaining his IP address (Nintendo online security flaws?) and DDOSing his, shutting down his internet. So far every time it's happened, he has had to call his ISP and request they manually change his IP to end the attack. This is not my area of expertise, but I really want to help him. Does anyone have any advice? Is there a relatively simple way to Geoblock traffic outside a few select countries (USA, CA, UK, etc.)? Any help appreciated!
Don't spin up 50 pods. You have outscaled your database. You can't make IO operations faster by throwing more workers at it and you can only have so many connections working at once. As a side note if your application is a typical IO bound web app its very unlikely you can process enough transactions to effectively use 50 workers in a single region.
Good point. But a compressor pre-stage is still a lot cheaper and more scalable than actually filtering through that many particles to get at each gram of CO2, no?
I had the opposite reaction, but I'm on my laptop. It looks like they are using RevealJS (https://revealjs.com/). I mention that because I originally went in thinking of this as an "article" with an alternative UX, but in reality it's just a slide show.

I did just try it on my mobile (Firefox, Android) and this format definitely doesn't translate well. I put it in landscape and it just shrink down the desktop site to fit. I feel like they should either encourage people to read on desktop or have an alternative mobile version.
on that note, cf https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants
Clearly you've not been in a job search and can compare the software job market in 2016-2021 vs now. The market is not 'hot'. Warm, maybe. Lukewarm, definitely.
I also think the article summary could be a bit more snappy and to the point.
This is incorrect and not how Copilot works. My company just hosted two MS engineers to explain it live to 175 of us.

The style applied by Copilot comes from your surrounding code context, not from the LLM. And that base, trained on all public repos from GitHub, knows everything about data structures, etc, in the languages that were scanned.

Nothing new would be gained by scanning MS's own repositories and nothing would be leaked or color the output in actual use.
This is great clarification, thanks!
The unfortunate thing is that core CAS functionality (and performance) should be based on a SAT/SMT engine to discover the rewrite rules and it goes without saying (but I'll say it anyway) implementing that is "hard". Naively (i.e., I haven't really thought through it), I think sympy should be built on top of z3 or cvc5 or at least very tighly integrated (e.g., support as a backend). And (again naively) I think until such time, sympy will remain a toy.

I will say though that symengine is a great project and congrats to that guy for pulling it off under the constraints of a phd.
That's just bs engineering and even shittier way of communicating this technical incompetency to the user. Facebook is like the Russia of tech. Casual, convenient incompetency. Which is not incompetency at all, just evil.
One benefit is that you don’t have to write a complex tree sitter mode for every editor. You can write an LSP server once and plug it into every editor.

Rust analyzer also provides compilation errors, lints, and code actions. It would be a lot of unnecessary work to implement and maintain these functionalities five times in five different editors.
I wish I knew 1984 better so I could find an apposite quote.
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2.4% by weight or 2.4% of total global warming potential? Methane has a GWP of 30 (CO2=1).

> and if the rancher uses any anti-methane feed additives

If this effort reduces methane emissions in any meaningful way then it's useful.
And despite the clever naming of the store, you don’t have to spend your whole paycheck at Whole Foods to eat a whole foods diet.
I’d guess the reason would be different, I think that a person that gets bothered by music repetition would not work as a music teacher.

You might avoid moonlight sonta, but then it’s 500 servings of fur elise.
NASA bosses admit SLS is unsustainable and unaffordable
> This may be intro level material to many people, but not everyone gets to go to a four year college, or gets raised in an open-minded community.

Hopefully if you're a person that analyzes contradictory thoughts you've already realized that a huge portion of society cannot do this. It's always fun at family reunions when attempting to discuss a complex topic has confused their opinion for being a fact and they cannot imagine a point of view that is not their own.

The first hard part of life is learning different views exist.

The second hard part of life is realizing some people have a very hard to near impossible time accepting other views exist.
Yup, and you haven't even dealt with one other driver on the road yet.
Apple’s new predictive text feature appears to be powered by GPT-2
It is insane. The flagpole glitch he was using on every level just a few years ago was considered prohibitively difficult to be included in every level in a world record push. He just nailed every single one of them, that's why after the 2nd or third one he and the chat started going nuts.

I forget what it was, there was a big world record by darbian a few years ago like 4:56 and a lot of people then thought it'd be impossible to get this close to the TAS record. 5 or so years later we're here.
Clickbait article with zero content. No "actions" listed.
Some context: In the upcoming versions of macOS and iOS, Apple is including a predictive text model which offers suggestions while you type, which they’ve said to be a "transformer model". I managed to find some details about this model, including details about its topology (which looks a lot like GPT-2) and its tokenizer, and I was even able to peek in and see several of its top predictions while typing!

Hopefully this can give some insight into some of the trade-offs that Apple went through to put a model on every iPhone and MacBook — it’s small, it has a pretty narrow scope, and it’s not very capable on its own.
> If every dev is not ready to fight for Remote...We have to fight to keep it...Remote or Die.

I had devs quit because we went remote. I have other devs still here but expressing a clear preference for more of an in-office experience.

Not everyone has the same preferences and not every dev wants to work remotely. We shouldn't be surprised when those differences of opinion play out in the remote vs hybrid vs in-office spectrum.
North Korea can build a Nuke without OS. I doubt they can build a semi fab even with OS.
I have a feeling US regulators wouldn't look too favorably on any IaaS mergers. Not to say it couldn't be done, but there would most likely be pretty high regulatory hurdles if any 2 major public cloud providers propose a merger or buy out
Hanlon's Razor seems appropriate here.
> I trust Apple not because they're good. But because selling your data hurts their bottomline. Trust capitalistic incentives and teack records, everything else is virtue signalling.

Nailed it. I trust Apple (as much as I’d trust any giant corp, and there are none more giant) because they have a profit motive to sell me privacy-respecting products. They have a few trillion dollars to lose by burning their customers.

If Apple were good about privacy because Tim Cook is a nice guy who believed in it even if it were a financial loss, that would be one CEO change away from disappearing. That’s not the case. Their stockholders are raking in cash from it. And if there’s one thing I trust in capitalism, it’s that a smart company will do things that make it more money.
It's still not any different. Just tag your release in git. No need for versions files. 1.0 matches 1.0 matches 1.0 of all the components. Want to know what version 1.1 is compatible with? You guessed it, 1.1!
It's a metaphor. For things like office politics, OKRs, etc.
https://archive.ph/l2HiW - non-paywall version

Linked within it is the original letter from graduate students opposing the highlighted professor's hiring: https://docs.google.com/document/d/1A3L4VYGbdJoLnIe5HjUF7bI3...

IMO the NYT selectively quotes the letter to fit a narrative that resistance to signing a DEI statement was the exact area of concern that caused the reversal of the hiring. But there are other quoted statements in that letter, including the professor's insinuation on his podcast that the Society for Personality and Social Psychology "underrepresent[s] white people" and, separately, his quote that "who are gonna be like more centrist on social issues such as abortion? It’s gonna be the nonwhite people."

It's not at all clear that his views on DEI statements were the red flag for the administration, but rather that they were about to hire a person with a penchant for soundbites that discuss race in an oversimplified way outside his area of research - and that hiring him could impact the university's reputation. It's unfortunate, to say the least, that the NYT did not address this possibility.
To be clear pgbouncer does not add connections to postgres or remove the connection bottleneck. Its still there under the covers. If you are saturating your connections it will not be able to improve on throughput. It sounds like you need a different architecture to allow for queueing work. The approach pgbouncer takes may actually reduce performance overall as it will intermix work on the pg instance which, if you are already saturating the database, will slow down other operations overall.
Rogue One has immense promise, but only partly delivers.

It’d have been better if they leaned harder into ripping off other heist movies (ripping things off and slapping a Star Wars coat of paint on them is when Star Wars is at its best—weirdly few people who get to make Star Wars media understand that, but the people behind The Mandalorian clearly did)

We didn’t build quite enough rapport with our characters to make their deaths hit as hard as they should have. I think it was a combo writing and directing issue. Ripping off better heist films a bit more might have helped with this, too.

Sequencing and editing of some action sequences felt a bit flat. I think it’s easy for these everything’s-CG films to run into that, but its being a common problem doesn’t make it not a problem.

A couple scenes were just awful. Vader in a couple of his scenes, LOL. Could have been one of those pre- and early-YouTube Star Wars fan parodies. WTF. And I don’t even mean the one where he rages at the end.

It is one of just two that gave me any amount of some mysterious quality I think of as Star Wars Feels, and it did the best at that, even, but was dragged down too much in other areas. Coulda been excellent, ended up OK.
> Probably a Nova 1200 or something like that though there's a lot of other specialized equipment in that film as well.

I'm more interested in the terminals. Here are some screenshots from the movie of what I'm talking about: https://imgur.com/a/Vm0LGw4
> So there could be any number from zero up, of international waters waypoints between them?

For me, it read like "there was no route between Aa and Ab because there were no waypoints available between them". But yeah, without a more detailed breakdown, information, and/or a better understanding of the precise format of the files and procedures, it is going to be a bit of assumption and guesswork.
Are they now
I wonder if search engines actually use rules for Googlebot when parsing some (specific?) robots.txt.

"Googlebot" might as well be the "Mozilla/5.0" of search index bot user agents.
It's my belief that the United States uses Israel to beta test their surveillance strategies for this country. There's definitely some kind of close autocratic relationship between the United States and Israel.
My newsletter is sad :(
Insane conspiracy level stretch of a theory.
Admitting What Is Obvious
Most things in general don’t do novel things. Its easier in terms of investing and time spent thinking to merely iterate on an idea thats already proved itself in the marketplace.
Presumably so, as down-thread, he states that they were overconfident in their growth. (Most of the time) the CEO knows that if the business can't deliver, it will be their head on the chopping block.
If you read an article with a terse description about the author struggling to ride a bike with 1 wheel missing, would you not assume a second wheel might help?
You can have load balanced inference and also fine tune models on Modal (disclaimer: I wrote this guide)

You can get a load balanced endpoint serving hundreds of tok/s per GPU using vLLM or Text Generation Inference in a few lines of code:

https://modal.com/docs/guide/ex/text_generation_inference
Twitter is benefiting from network effects by now. I'm not even sure when have I encountered a tweet in search results last time.
Eh, we've been spending decades pumping out people with degrees in this kind of "social criticism". It just turned out that no businesses except the universities themselves were interested in hiring for such positions, so of course damn near every university administrator is grinding this axe: they were told they could make a career out of it back when they were in school and can't get work elsewhere.
I stated: "like lowering the volume of their voice so nobody else can hear,"

Then you come back with: "but you speak in a way that more people hear you than intended.."

You just changed what I specifically said so it would fit your narrative. Yes, you can be in a bar and think you're talking quietly, but the 3 pints and 2 shots you've consumed means that you're still yelling, just means you're a drunken fool. If you're in a restaurant or some other public setting while sober, you can actually talk to someone without the rest of the public hearing.
I think it has some xss attack as on load my ios safari asked if i want to download 2girls1cup.jpg
That's my point, when taking a loan you know upfront the cost, but when raising money you can't know what it really takes
Construction workers probably need to wear a hard hat even when they are bald. ;)
Apparently there is no good answer?

“Behavior experts have proposed several reasons for why domestic cats “make biscuits,” as kneading is sometimes dubbed, although never fear, cats still retain their mystery.”

“Some of these are just theories because we don’t know,” says Susan Nelson, a veterinarian at Kansas State University. “Cats don’t get the funding for studies like dogs do.”
Test Your Knowledge with the JavaScript Is Weird Quiz
That would be foolish. A large part of their moat is that lots of people already have Nvidia cards in their computers, making development really smooth and allowing hobbyists to easily get started and contribute to the ecosystem.

If they were to give up their consumer gpu lead and let AMD overtake them that will lead to more AMD support in ML, enabling AMD to eventually compete in the server gpu space too.
Does twitter rely on that? Most of the time I go to twitter is from news stories, comments or other social media.
I think I'd start by removing, at the hardware level, the ability of the IoT devices to do general computing and networking. They accept authenticated external control instructions, they execute the instructions, they physically cannot do more. Most likely there would be no updates at all. There would also be a physical off switch.

My idea is that, if you limit the IoT device - say, a thermostat or a smart bulb - to only have the exact capabilities it is supposed to have, then the damage from any external hack is limited to messing with the user's house. And, if the user has the ability to turn it off, the damage of the hack is limited to "the device doesn't do anything anymore".

I figure this is much better than the possibility that breaking the security enables the IoT device to spy on the user's network traffic, or their house, or be part of a botnet, or a bounce point for hacking attempts.

EDIT: I recognize there are good real-world reasons why IoT companies don't do it this way. If we actually valued security, then there would be an incentive for someone to build up the systems to facilitate this kind of limited-attack-value design.
> Are you willing to bet the future of your children, grandchildren, etc. on unproven technology?

mon ami there is no choice. no amount of solar is going to magically meet our needs -- nuke or bust, basically -- and unless the human population gets cut in half, like, tomorrow, nothing is going to stop the impacts of climate change, that are now on a runaway train.
Are there computations for calories-produced per GWP?

How does beef fare compared to something like turkey?
Ruby on Rails is my least favorite framework by a large margin, so I guess I'm not surprised that the creator of it would make decisions that are diametrically opposed to ones I would with regards to TS.
Seeing what other users are prompting it with is half the fun of the output.

Nice to see people merely pushing boundaries rather than ruining it for everyone for now.
My favorite part of this is we won’t see flexport hiring as spam on HN for a while :)
Based on personal experience, eminently unqualified applicants can get hired if they went to high school with the hiring manager. You don't even need to be friends or in the same class, heck it might even be a different high school in the same time frame in the same general area.

But what if you didn't go to high school together? If you're in the same age range, snag some pictures from his (this will only work if he's a bro, by the way) facebook or yearbook and deep fake yourself into them. If you're not in the same age range, that's ok, maybe your brother was in his class. Get a list of names and nicknames from the yearbook so you can "remember" seeing him at a kegger or a house party, the time J-Dawg was making out with Ashley and blew chunks all over her.
That is something I have been wondering about LLMs. Do they keep track of large chunks of text, they were trained on? e.g., Does ChatGPT know that "Four scores and seven years" was a speech given by Abraham Lincoln to commemorate the battle of Gettysburg? Or does some articles say ChatGPT just write "plausible" sentences.

In other words, the reverse ChatGPT that tries to identify papers written by AI. Is it really sure that the text is plagiarized or is it simply "plausibly" written by AI. That is if something like this goes go to court and the judge asks serious questions... will these AI detectors be laughed at?
And that starts as soon more than a dozen people work together. No ex Amazon excec needed.
I feel like the beef industry should have started selectively breeding based on gas emissions like 20 years ago. The people want less farty cows, so go engineer them!
It will be unsearchable because the word close is already used all over real estate. There's nothing to differentiate your Close from any other closing.
Thanks! 100%. I think the TS support has also helped us innovate on the UX side of things much more quickly.
Pushing the Frontier
> It doesn't matter what it is, we'll make it work. We always do.

> Be warned, though: work-life balance is not a phrase in our vocabulary. We work very hard and because of that we know our shit.

When I see linear programming or optimization, I think of graycat.
Seems highly unlikely Dave Clark was a double agent installed by Amazon. Flexport only compete with a small part of Amazon, specifically Fulfilment by Amazon - hard to see them risking the massive blowback if discovered just to take down a company that doesn’t compete with either of their core businesses (amazon.com and AWS).

Much more likely he was just a bad CEO/bad hire. Often vets from mega-corps are terrible hires as C-suite types at startups, bringing all sorts of bureaucratic process and overspending, based on what they know from mega-corps.
You’ve offered no specific or practical alternatives, just idealistic babble, and are yet calling for the scaling back of direct and actionable enforcement.

People like you, the political climate you create, and the policies you vote for, are largely why our cities are devolving.
Very doubtful. They are already at 7nm.

I'll bet 3 years. Using mostly stolen IP, because they aren't allowed to buy it.
I would like to learn more about the “hack”. Although I doubt a CVE will be issued.

I can only assume it’s a simple serial console port left open, and a service technician toolset was leaked with the commands to open the cash dispenser.
Can you not read the article?
I assume the previous CEO had no handle on what was going on with their hiring (as evidenced by the rescinded jobs and 200 jobs on their website despite a hiring freeze), so a founder stepped in, assumed that role, and is trying to clean up that mess.
Great. So cops are not actually achieving any goal of keeping people safe, since they fundamentally do not prevent harm.
The genius behind Japan's viral 'barely useful' inventions
I'm holding out for the chatbot that can do my meetings for me
Leaked Google Pay Data Unfolds an Ugly Truth
It is crazy how disingenuous this comic is. I get that it was fun to make, but damn I wish that it informed rather than propagandized.
The Remote contingent needs to fight harder than the office contingent because the office paradigm has been the dominant paradigm up until now.

In-office work will realistically be seen as a niche when it's all said and done imho. Similar to LAN parties. It's not the way most people want to do things.

Time will tell I guess. But thanks for your anecdote, I hope as time goes on, we begin to see what a niche anecdote it will become.
The paper notes that further research is needed on whether there is any causative link, or merely correlation:

"Further studies are warranted to determine whether these findings represent an actual effect of menopausal hormone therapy on dementia risk, or whether they reflect an underlying predisposition in women in need of these treatments."

It's not unreasonable to suppose that women who go to the trouble of getting hormone therapy have other conditions, or are experiencing unusually acute effects of aging.
A single example is difficult to evaluate, especially when the only context is a walled village, house plans and burials - no written records.

However, if you are intrigued by this, read:

The Dawn of Everything

Graeber & Wengrow