skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> I spent an entire afternoon writing string-matching heuristics, regular expressions, and even implementing Levenshtein distance to answer the simple question, "is this address the same as that one?"

> But then, on a lark, I replaced all that code – 50+ lines in all – with a single call to GPT. And within ten minutes and just a few lines of code, I hit 100% accuracy against my test suite!

They could write an extra layer or two to preprocess and match obvious easy ones, and also to sanity-check the LLM's output for hard ones.
I'm a huge fan of txtai and the work that David has been doing on it for years now. He's deeply committed to open source at a time when that's getting watered down in the LLM space. That's commendable.
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Great accuracy as tested to a continually changing black box. GPT hits are also expensive and often have unpredictable latency. This would have to be integration tested to detect changes to GPT answers.
That last bit about the media is both true and perhaps uncomfortable for Democrats today whose political will aligns with the media narratives.
Especially true when you consider the website is called “bored reading”. Having to register for a service is even less appealing when you’re bored.
>"But there’s a difference: All these kinds of orders are made without any written documents."

And you know this how? Maybe the document do exist but are classified. As for rule of law - try civil forfeiture for example. It is but a pure theft that goes unpunished.
I can't help but think LLM is the wrong tool for the job here. There are many address validation and standardization services, including databases you can get straight from USPS. Those services will give you real and consistent answers, rather than unknown edge cases that will shift subtly over time as your LLM changes.

Edit: The USPS even runs a program called CASS for this exact purpose. While you may not need to CASS certify yourself, you can either follow its rules or use a service that follows CASS to guarantee your results are accurate.
Can’t wait til we start replacing all those algorithms with api calls to llms. Enter the new era of ultra-speed-up development frameworks and programming.
the nice thing about guile is that on GNU systems it is pretty much installed by default, so scripts depending on it would be easy to distribute
If you're bored reading this same article (and pretty much the same
comments on it) over and over, go listen to our take on it all from a
month ago. Much more entertaining, I'd hope.

https://cybershow.uk/media/episodes/watchers_2023-07-01.mp3
Technically this is a valid denial of service attack...

... against MITRE and NVD.
>Well, people in the PRC aren’t really working for peanuts nowadays either. They’re not making US/EU wages, but they ain’t working for free, either.

Mate, forget about chinese wages being livable as an argument.

First and foremost, US/EU workers aren't working in factories which have suicide nets on them, that alone shroud tell you everything.

Secondly, workers in the US have it so good that they don't even want to work in semiconductor factories of TSMC (the better paid kind of skilled factories with weight on your resume), let alone consumer electronic factories where you're a disposable cog, least ones which need suicide nets to keep you from killing yourself after your 12h shift and living in a shipping container village.
The final assembly, while it doesn't cost nothing, isn't that expensive.

What does cost more is final testing, to make sure all the components work together. It is cheaper to do that well at the end of the assembly process before starting packaging, than to deal with a high rate of returns. The testing done throughout the manufacturing process is a significant cost.
Ahh yes, good point it is mostly the US, but US allies do own a lot of IP and supply chain capability, particularly Japan and SK.

I don’t agree China will have the advantage though, it will certainly develop its own standards and mandate it internally but it remains to be seen if it will be able to export those standards, it tried with BRI and that did not work, but that was more manufacturing oriented. It’ll try to tech again but it will be a tough sell. It simply does not have the goodwill required. Will see gains in Russia, Pakistan and Cambodia, some countries in Africa but that’s about it.
> Probably the biggest thing Austin seemed to have going for it is the combo of tech+diversity+what seem to be outdoor activities.

Try Denver.
Aging Code
Any time I hear "Capitalism is [...]", it is when one forces his own, carefully worded definition, so that the subsequent arguments sound natural, logic, simple, irrefutable. "It's simply the system of exploitation".

Let me try that game. Capitalism is what emerges from trade and money. You can fight it, you can embrace it, but you won't eradicate it. Black markets and barter will emerge, which are forms of capitalism. In the end, all you can do is regulate it (or not). Then I would define socialism as an attempt to regulate it so it doesn't turn into the law of the fittest.
> the UN can't really do much without the sign off from the Security Council.

Yes, it can; it has deployed peacekeeping missions without Security Council signoff (UNEF I), by the UNGA after France and the UK vetoed action in the UNSC, it adopted broad sanctions against South Africa, through the UNGA, after a triple veto by the US, UK. and France.

The UNGA has taken various action, including expelling Russia from the Human Rights Council, in respect to the Russo-Ukrainian war in a process starting with a Russian Security Council veto.

The common underlying factor in all of these is the UNGA “Uniting for Peace” resolution pit forward by the US during the Korean War because, while dodged initially in that situation because of the Soviet boycott of the UN over other issues, the problem with letting the Security Council veto be the end of the story was made very clear in that context.
On the surface this seems incredibly stupid. But after thinking on it for a minute - maybe use cases with very low tokens in, very low tokens out, makes sense. Still feels awful, but maybe. Probably not. But maybe.
Yes, the dowels are usually the weak points in Ikea furniture. They'll slip out a little, then the leverage will tear apart the wood around it when you're carrying the furniture.
The car data collected predicted you'd post the above :)
Flat-pack furniture is not an efficiency due to the cost of assembly, but shipping, as furniture is mostly air. You will note that most flat-pack furniture designs somehow fit incredibly efficiently into cubic prisms that themselves fit suspiciously conveniently into standard shipping containers.

By contrast, consider a modern smartphone. There is very little volume to be won by shipping it as parts, and there is greatly increased risk of customer dissatisfaction due to customers-at-large being clumsy, untrained, unequipped and unaccustomed to the assembly task. Just look at how popular it is to complain about assembling Ikea furniture, compare/contrast with e.g. PC assembly, and then scale that up...
> Markets occur in every economic system.

Voting occurs in every political system too, but who gets to vote and what the votes are about is important.
The bugs I am aware of are on the PCIe side. i225 will lock up the bus if it attempts to do PTM to support PTP. That's a pretty serious bug. You would think Intel has this nailed since they invented PCIe and PCI for that matter. Apparently not. Maybe they outsourced it.
Maybe they do but one could just as well apply this logic to bans on Huawei telecom equipment.
Thanks! There's ETL in the traditional sense of moving production data to the data warehouse (hence the 'reverse ETL' moving data back into prod), as well as the term increasingly being used for data pipelines in general.

On the former, we had custom tooling at the time of writing but now use GCP Dataflow (which I can say I'm rather partial to).
Knowing this, we ought to design an economic system accordingly!

The inevitable concentration of power should be out in the open, broadly consented to, and held accountable. We could call it "government".

Instead, in the most "anarchic" corners of capitalism we have "shadow governments" where power is tightly concentrated and undemocratic, but it's okay because "if you can't see it, it doesn't exist". Insurance giants, tech giants, finance giants, etc.

Edward Bernays was writing about this exact phenomenon 100 years ago (Propaganda).
How does it handle flaky connection or even offline scenario? How does it work with service worker?
That reminds me of this: https://esolangs.org/wiki/Lingua_abstrusa
"Secretly dreaming" sounds like a thought-crime.

In terms of real-world actions, the US has more 750 military bases in 80 countries, including 300 in Asia.

China has 8 overseas bases: one in Djibouti and the rest in islands near China.

China is definitely trying to advance its economic interests throughout the world, by investing in infrastructure in Africa and Latin America.

That's what every country does or aspires to do. It's just business.

Better transparent soft power that delivers tangible results for the local populace rather than opaque coups, mercenary armies, and funding dictators and warlords.
Socialism, despite what republicans want you think isn't any govt service. If that is true then the only socialism free model would be anarchy.
It is inference, so maybe it is just CPU memory?
I totally agree with pretty much every point you make.

I also invest in US majority index funds so certainly agree they are the best bet. I do however think security and certainty are different in that one is 99% and one is 100%.

I'd say it depends on your personality and risk tolerance but when talking about life destroying events I'd say 1% is quite significant. For example a 1% chance of a car crash per journey would be unacceptably high.

Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed reply by the way, I'm thinking around this topic a lot at the moment so debating the details is very valuable to help reach a view I'm content with.
The Tao of Programming [pdf]
Socialism and communism are two different things. It's sloppy thinking to conflate them.
I'd like to highlight one of the previous comments on this article:

>Here's some important things to think about:

>First, socialism is defined as worker or public control of the means of production and distribution. This has been interpreted in both libertarian and authoritarian ways.

>Second, if socialism is worker control, then it is fully compatible with free markets. Mondragon and Semco are both worker democracies, and operate successfully in the global market.

>If socialism is public control, this does not equal totalitarianism. Social democracy is a form of democratic public control of resources.

>I understand people's reasoning for preferring capitalism (ownership defined by contract) or socialism (ownership defined by use), and I respect that, but I would love to be able to have political discussions about these issues which take into account the complexity and diversity of these two very broad terms.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2315657
I just started building a new app in Flutter too after working exclusively in React for the last several years.

I'm not sure I'd use Flutter for the web yet but I definitely prefer it to React Native.
Thanks.

I read the original article and conspicuously absent is the actual mechanism of the data collection that is occurring here. Some of the claims seem barely believable.

Is data exfiltrated from the phone, via some kind of data access loophole in Android Auto / Car Play? Are the microphones in vehicles actively listening to conversations and shipping them off for analysis? Or is this all purely hypothetical (i.e., they say they have the right to use it, so clearly they must be trying to acquire it...)?

The only techniques I can imagine that might lead to collection of data such as sexual activity are truly egregious indeed, and although I have incredibly low trust in auto makers such techniques seem like a bridge too far, even for them.
Totally. That being said I'm on 'soft skills' phase now :joy:
I would classify Brand more as counter-culture liberal than a conservative. He’s still very much a liberal in terms of his views, he just hasnt reduced himself to partisan tribalism. Im sure I disagree with him on many things and from different directions but I think its commendable that he doesnt subscribe to a mold.
>Diamonds are also rare

Only if you define them such that you exclude lab-made diamonds. But I agree that we can like things for multiple reasons and that rarity is a part of the demand for diamonds.

In any case, I believe people will eventually forget about "unnatural" diamonds. People will be more creative with thier works if a failure does not cost so much, and the average size will be larger. Consider that modern farmed perls were once considered unnatural. But they are not only cheaper but more uniform than wild ones and now nobody buys those.
I suspect the plant-based "milk" makers are investing a lot of marketing resources in smearing the reputation of milk as unhealthy, just like the margarine makers did before to promote the replacement of butter with cheaper hydrogenated vegetable oils.
I actually am not convinced that this is a good format for intellectual discussion based on past experiences I've had. If you have, say, ten people and are meeting for three hours, that gives 18 minutes of speaking time at most if speaking were divided equally. Of course it won't be and certain people in the group will disproportionately hog the talking time (btw, it is this kind of person who will be most excited about the format). The more nuanced your position, the more difficult it is to express in the short amount of time that you may have to speak. Also consider that some people are simply better at speaking in a group environment even if the quality of their arguments are weak (or at least one sided). One or two people can easily dominate the whole group. It can devolve into a series of lectures rather than a conversation. Or the entire conversation can be sidetracked by something inflammatory that hijacks the group's attention. These issues can be addressed in part with a great moderator, but a poor moderator is a disaster and you may not find out the moderator's weakness until there have already been major problems in the group.

It is no surprise to me that the format is attributed to Jefferson. He seems like he had exactly the personality that would thrive in this tightly controlled environment with rules that he set for his own benefit.

That being said, good intellectual conversation over a meal is one of life's great gifts. I just prefer other formats.
have you checked connected devices / sign in activity on the account?
go to account settings -> secuirty and see if you can disconnect some device / verify sign ins.
But it sounds like someone is trying to fatigue you in to accepting

Good luck
North American cultural tropes, especially from high
school on up, make out physical activity to be a kind
of war. It is supposed to require extreme discipline
and a punitive degree of focus. It's supposed to separate
winners from losers.

Amen. Extremely well said.

Additionally, as somebody who has always sort of had one foot in athletics and one foot in the world of nerdery:

I find that many sedentary types are just uncomfortable with sweating. They find the sensation of sweat on their skin to be super gross and embarrassing and/or are afraid of "body odor" and this is a major deterrent for them.

I was this way, kinda, when I was much younger. I definitely see it in others.
So correct me if I'm wrong, but:

* Germany has an Obamacare-like system: Insurance is private, but mandatory.

* You can choose and change your insurance provider freely, and they cannot reject you

So if that is true, health insurance companies have the risk of older residents joining, whether or not the previously resided in Germany, and it's not like they benefited from their contributions before.

So how exactly would this exclusion work? Is insurance not mandatory for immigrants after a certain age? Do insurance companies have a right to reject them?

I was not able to find a direct discussion of the question, but this page discussing the health problems of older immigrants (including "access to the health care system") does not mention the possibility that they would be excluded from the health care system altogether: https://heimatkunde.boell.de/de/2013/11/18/ältere-migrantinn...
is that not just a no true scotsman argument? what you describe doesn’t exist anywhere at scale, humans have never found a way to do this idea at scale.

Same faulty logic affected the communists too.
Thank the reds we're not all forced to speak German.
Seems like no one writing this article noticed the drone war going on in Ukraine right now.

I'm a lot less worried about industrial accidents, and a lot more worried about the path of military accidents. Drones /will/ outpilot human pilots, and AIs /will/ out-strategize humans. That's inevitable at this point. Bugs will creep in too, as will cyberattacks.

In a war, no one will have time to dive into AI ethics, let alone capacity to apply them.
"Mean participant age ranged from 29 to 86 (median=55) years" I wonder what the results would've shown for a younger demographic? Feel like stagnation typically increases with age, and I'd imagine the benefits are felt a lot more when your body has a worse baseline to begin with. Great study regardless, glad light is being shined on the benefits of physical activity!
Yes, but he refines what he meant with practical, physical approach is out, don't touch ;)
Sure:

Linux is a networking swiss army knife (or maybe a dremmel). It can do a lot of stuff reasonably well. It has all sorts of knobs and levers, so you can often configure it to do really weird stuff. I tend to reach for it first to understand the shape of a problem/solution.

BSD is fantastic for a lot of server applications, particularly single tenant high throughput ones like mail servers, dedicated app servers, etc. A great series of case studies have come out of Netflix on this (google for "800Gbps on freebsd netflix" for example - every iteration of that presentation is fantastic and usually discussed here at least once, and Drew G. shows up in comments and answers questions).

It's also pretty nice for firewalling/routing small and medium networks - (opn|pf)sense are both great systems for this built on FreeBSD (apologies for the drama injection this may cause below).

One of the reasons I reach for linux first unless I already know the scope and shape of the problem is that the entire "userland vs kernel" distinction is much blurrier there. Linux allows you to pass some or all traffic to userland at various points in the stack and in various ways, and inject code at the kernel level via ebpf, leading to a lot of hybrid solutions - this is nice in middleboxes where you want some dynamism and control, particularly in multi-tenant networks (and thats the space my work is in, so it's what I know best)

Please bear in mind that these are my opinions and uses/takes on the tools. Just like with programming there's a certain amount of "art" (or maybe "craft") to this, and other folks will have different (but likely just a valid) views - there's a lot of ways to do anything in networking.
Did you use a local caching proxy like Varnish or Squid? Would that have helped?
Ask HN: Multi step browser automation to fill out and update forms?
Hello,
I'm looking for some input or open source projects that can do the following:

1.Login

2.Browse to a URL

3.Fill out form details from a spread sheet or DB.

4.GOTO another endpoint and fill out another form( Mostly Checkboxes for permissions)

5.Save

I've tried using the API to do this on my own but the API restricts some tasks that I need, so I'm thinking a browser bot could do the trick.

I record the flow, then tell it where to get the data to fill the forms.

Anyone have any advise or services (open source) I can use to accomplish this task?

Thank you
> You could no more copyright a model than you could a phone book

Just as an interesting side note, some jurisdiction recognize something apparently called “database right” in English (in Swedish it’s more like “catalog right”).

It’s a kind of intellectual property right for the work of compiling a database.

Perhaps applicable to the weights of a model? But the US does not recognize this as a thing

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database_right
That inherently arbitrary logic can be wielded against any regulation or ideology. Nearly every policy disadvantages some person or group's preferences/freedom to purportedly better enable a greater good.

This slippery slope reasoning would not only apply to your chosen target of "modern conservatism" but to anything under most ideologies and religions. As long as their implementation attempts probabilistically/historically led to a form of intolerance, suppression, and atrocity. Is Bernie Sanders also deserving of our intolerance because of the history of intolerance under socialism?
Location is huge here, and then social circles within that location. Midwest is a world apart from the East Bay.
I think the news here is that robots are NOT killing people. They seem to be MUCH safer than human involved industrial equipment. Anyone who has worked in a factory probably has a story of their co-worker being sucked into a planer or their skull caved in by a forklift. Not to mention the thousands dying of chronic illnesses. The average life expectancy of welders is 50-60 years. Every welder we replace with a robot is saving 20-30 years of human life.

With AI safety features we can only see the gains in human life growing. At least until the robot dogs with needles for teeth start hunting down people who read books or the justice drones start shooting protestors with exploding freedom rockets.
I bought a Pixel 6a earlier this year, and traded in my Pixel 3a for $150 USD off the $300 sale price. Other than the fingerprint reader being kind of terrible, it was worth it to get a new battery and OS updates for the next few years for $150 (plus tax and shipping).

If you don't want to spend a lot on a phone, you can do that.
It sounds sort of like "Jong" or "Chang" with the a sound from Spanish not the a in "cat", but most Americans pronounce it like zang rhymes with tang, and mostly no one complains about it. I had a Chinese American friend who mostly introduced herself with the wrong pronunciation but after we talked about it, I saw her do an introduction with the right pronunciation. It's a hard problem because there's very little sound overlap between English and Mandarin, and this is made worse by using Pinyin spelling, which is designed for use by native speakers and not English speakers. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zhang_(surname)

One solution would be to translate it to Archer. :-)
Total Commander is on a whole different level of refinement and optimization.

Double Commander is good, indeed, but has some rough edges.

DC uses some components that are made by different authors and that are not that flexible and users ask for features which are beyond what those components can offer. So this is a dead end since nobody is updating/adapting the components so the features could be implemented.

DC has only two listed active developers, one of which is the author and the other one is new and fixes mostly Mac problems. If someone knows Free Pascal and Lazarus IDE or is interested in contributing, it would be to the benefit of all the users. I imagine it is not a trivial task to keep this program running on Windows/Linux/Mac with only two people.

For Windows, Unreal Commander is also good.
Also Free Commander, but it is the slowest of all the orthodox file managers.