skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Defaults can be powerful, but we have the numbers. Edge is the default Windows desktop browser and has 8-10% of the market. Apparently defaults are not more powerful than shipping a shitty product.
Didn't use lame for mp3 so the conclusions are pointless in my opinion
tl;dr - LLMs can reduce effort spent on related activities, thereby reducing net energy consumption. Primary example is dealing with mundane paperwork needed for getting climate projects through the bureaucracy
Just enough butter so you can melt the herbs de province and garlic into the butter and brush it evenly over the entire fish. Then a bit of salt and lemon and sprig of rosemary, bake in foil at 375. As you said, with salmon less is more. The butter isn’t so much for taste as for perfecting the outer appearance and ensuring the garlic and herbs are evenly distributed. Experiment with dill seeds!

Also - we’re talking about how French cuisine is better and you’re rejecting butter? The conversation can end there: French cuisine is better because they use butter! A tip: every bit of salmon you’ve ever had at a restaurant was cooked with butter. Try it!
You are right, but doing the kind of work proposed in the essay is how it very slowly becomes better understood and more predictive. Obviously there won't ever be the one breakthrough that solves everything, and it's most likely that the vast majority of such attempts fail, but just throwing up our hands and saying "that's just how it works!" is how you guarantee it never changes. And this is coming from someone who works in an perhaps an even less predictive and more empirical field.
I don't see the relevance to AWS regarding people's music habits.
Ask HN: Do you use Elasticsearch/elastalert and/or praeco for alerting?
Yo HN!

I've followed https://github.com/Yelp/elastalert which was archived and then forked by https://github.com/jertel/elastalert2 for quite a while, and I'm pretty ambiguous about it. On one hand, it looks like these projects got some good traction, but on the other hand, they feel pretty abandoned these days. I've also tried to reach out to the maintainers and am still waiting for an answer.

Anyway - if you use any of these projects, I'll be more than happy to talk (just drop a comment or send an email to shahar@keephq.dev)

The context is, I'm building Keep (https://github.com/keephq/keep), and I thought these projects could work pretty cool together. So, I'm trying to understand if they are still being used.
I can definitely hear the difference on some songs at some “CD quality” bit rates of MP3. Also some MP3 encoders (and decoders too, to be fair) are better than others. Particularly back when this article was written.

That all said, these days encoders are much better, and there’s no excuse not to go for 320kbps (assuming you have to use MP3).

What I find more interesting is that there was a period where some people who grew up listening to MP3s preferred the artefacting they introduced vs lossless. In much the same way how vinyl enthusiasts like the colouring of the sound that medium introduces. Which just goes to show that as much of this is down to psychology as it is technology.
I don’t see the relevance of the analogy but it is also clearly true that living in the air polluted city is better than being homeless, so I really don’t get your point.
It’s not that the user may have such intent, though they may and it’s hard to see how the AI could tell. It’s more that the AI has no clue what possible juxtapositions it might come up with of baby girl and rabbit, or anything else, might have disturbing implications for humans.
Japanese Scientists Find Microplastics in the Clouds Above Mount Fuji
Defending Against Alignment-Breaking Attacks via Robustly Aligned LLM
> Most homeless people in the UK will be aware that they can charge phones in any public library. ..have access to some kind of facility to charge phones, have a shower and do laundry.

You describe a different universe from US homelessness. Here there might be a tiny bit of religious outreach but the public (therefor public services) tends to lean toward hostility.
Nearly all (or all) of these regimes practiced, by far, more speech censorship than the others in order to reduce contradicting views; so the causality in these examples is pointing in the wrong direction.

To be more clear, these regimes arose because of the lack of freedom of speech, not because of the excess of it.
Theoretically, if you’re adding one atom at a time making a meaningfully thick object requires trillions of layers. Add 1 atom a second across a full layer ~= several years per centimeter of thickness.

Lithography is about as close as we can do, but that takes multiple stages to do each individual layer otherwise you can’t get patterns just undifferentiated layers.

If you don’t need atomic precision for arbitrary patterns there are many options. Crystals can grow much faster, but you have minimal control over how they grow etc.
The bigger question is why people uses AWS for sending bulk data.

Gigabytes are cheap.
What's up Python: Jupyter more popular than Vim, VSCode in Excel and a button
Unplug the computer from the internet, hand the kid a UNIX manual, and
suck all joy from computing.

Having a working browser teach you programming is like having an android in
the form of Kelly LeBrock teach you robotics. You're gonna want to do
things to it that engage your little brain.
When I read this it fascinates me how Plato's Allegory of the Cave continues to evolve in our modern digital world. Propaganda, visual witnessing, etc, etc - the theory stays the same, just the tools change.
There are a bunch of online tests that help you see if you, with your ears and equipment, can tell the difference. http://abx.digitalfeed.net/ and http://abx.digitalfeed.net/list.lame.html was on HN some time ago, for example. I'm not sure if any of them collect stats though.
The “manipulation” aspect of online advertising is significantly overstated by the modern media. The vast majority of it is simply making you aware of some product you were not aware existed in the first place.
The class divide isn't based around an arbitrary salary, or specific job positions. It's whether you have hire/fire powers and you make money off of other people's labour, rather than selling your own. Hollywood actors and famous football players are often very rich, but they sell their labor to get by. They don't own the means of production
If alloc() changes .beg, how do you free (release to the OS, not mark as unused) the whole arena when it's not needed anymore? Wouldn't changing .end be better, so that you can implement a destroyarena(a) which calls free(a.beg)?

Typical use: set up a specific arena just to read in the config file. Once it's done, release the whole arena.
I've always had a soft spot for influxdb after using it for a self hosted datadog/newrelic etc solution many (6+) years ago with great success. Still use it in conjunction with telegraf and grafana for personal project monitoring, but I've not brought myself to upgrade from the 1.x series.

Hopefully it's improved, but last time I tried upgrading I found the UX in grafana to be subpar on the newer versions, as I recall you lost the autocomplete/UI to build your queries. Obviously grafana is it's own project but feels like they (influx) should invest more resource in areas like this to encourage people to upgrade - if you're going to do major upgrades make sure they have feature parity
The problem is navigating the middle range.
They have some sort of battery that powers the lights. I wonder if the dock also charges those?
There could absolutely be an evolutionary advantage to genes that kill some % of individuals, depending on who/when/where/why, since genes also work at the species and even ecosystem level, not just the individual level. Just like there are genes to kill individual cells.
Let's assume there are people who are able to hear a difference. Why does it matter to a majority of people and the way they consume music?
Maybe I'm from a spoiled generation, growing up listening to FM radio and tapes, even copying from tape to tape.

A lot of rock music lives from the imperfection of audio equipment, people spend a considerable amount of time replicating the behavior of vacuum tubes. Even techo producers like Robert Babicz record to analogue tape machine to enhance the final result.
That’s just impersonation, framing is when it’s about how you make the real party look, not yourself. Which would be weird, not implausible, but you get to implausible when you assert not just that somebody framed you, but that you were framed by some specific trusted party like the police or Google, and also you have zero evidence.
There in lies the problem. With shifting priorities and shifting strategies I don’t see them actually knowing what their market is.
Mercedes-Benz Introduces Hands-Free Driving. How Does It Compare to Tesla?
A decade+ later lots of people (potential customers, investors) also prefer not say “no”.

In my work with startup founders, I regularly say, “people say ‘no’ in a lot of ways, many are very subtle. But when they say ‘yes’ it’s clear and obvious.”
> they doubled down because they lack any sense of morality.

I don't believe you know what their internal mental states are.
I’ve personally ABX tested people who swore up and down that they could spot 128 AAC, even, and they couldn’t. Never found anyone who could. I know they exist, but they are rare, and probably not the folks who say they can.
Yes. This is a very likely problem. When I evaluate quotes on the other side, I usually weed out the highest and the lowest ones. The highest one is usually some middleman re-contracting out the work adding on his profit. Or someone like you said, just trying to price out the job instead of refusing the job honestly.
It's not surprising to me at all, there's very little to friction to continue to use the thing you use every day for a new task.

I completely agree with you, it has a high risk associated with it, and you really shouldn't do it, but i can see how it happens when people don't think things through or don't remain vigilant.
We don't know anything. If you want to know how we are sure of it, we aren't.

But the information that light always move on the same speed, on any direction and for every observer has been tested again and again since the end of the 19th century. Nobody ever saw it fail.

There is of course a huge number of variables nobody tested yet. And we can't know if those are important or not. But we are very logically biased into assuming they aren't until we have a real need for them to explain something.

(Anyway, the thing you are trying to invent is a kind of modified Newtonian mechanics - even though it's not quite Newtonian, but people use that same name. There are other people trying to get a workable theory with similar parameters. Up to now, nobody got any.)
Determining who to trust with this (on what topics) seems to be an incredibly hard problem with no obvious solution. And unfortunately a lot of people either seem to delegate to those that make nice sounding promises or ignore the issues all together. Even the statement you just made could always turn out to be a "noble lie" aimed preserving personal sanity at horrible cost for others. After all, having psychological support, or being able to deal with this, says nothing about what kind of solution they would produce. In all likelihood those people to delegate to will turn out to be in large parts depressed, detached or psychopaths. So i dont see a way around verification.

Having agency in a society ( through democracy, markets, shaping narratives in discussions and many other ways) might just require adults who deal with the horrible aspects society produces in a responsible manner. Which includes not designing solutions for a false peace of mind. After all, you yourself (as in every individual) are the one responsible for the consequences you produce.

Personally i hope this might be a matter of outer alignment, as in a problem of not agreeing on shared goals that you can apply to problem solving in a coordinated manner. Which has to include the ability to verify process and outcome (which unfortunately in itself are highly safety critical) and the unwillingness to accept false but pleasant conclusions with high costs for others.
Finland may feel ok right now, but Finland seems like its going downhill pretty fast. Tax payers are declining. Having kids is seeing more PITA as people want to be young forever, or people are afraid of becoming single fathers/mothers, and the country doesnt support child families enough. The numbers dont look very good. Many of the nordic wellbeing country pillar stones come from high taxes, and once that money stops, the pillar stones have to be cut one by one. Not to add, finland has problem with employment, more than the neighbour countries.
Most likely to know if that email was opened and the user was indeed tricked to click the link, so maybe later “promoting” your email into the actual phishing email list.
CSAM & apple debacle shows we can win some of the time. I'm not going to give up. CSAM was a huge precedent for having government sponsored software on your phone, running 100% of the time, scanning your device. That is just plain fucking awful and it was new and precedent setting. It had to fought tooth and nail, and it was just "don't let perfect be the enemy of the good". I'm sorry to be so blatant but that's what it was. Yeah I read the pdf and understood what they were doing, it was a crack in the armor of having government surveillance software on your phone and computer 24/7 and that is huge.
If the big tech companies were in the EU, the dynamic would be completely reversed.

It’s simply rebranded protectionism.
I’m always a bit unease to click on content from Big Think. Not knowing exactly what the Koch Foundation agenda is feels somewhat unsettling, even though the content seems generally good.
Painful, slow, costly.

Access request needs to be created, validated, logged, processed, expired or revoked.

Or just validated, processed, and logged.
Everything you've proposed has already been tested non stop for a hundred years.
… all it takes to make positrons is particle collisions at an energy greater than 1.2 MeV, something, pulsar magnetic fields can do easily. To make antiproton takes 1500 times more.

There is a great hope, however, that (i) dark matter interacts with itself, (ii) concentrates in certain places (say around black holes) and (iii) dark mater annihilation makes ordinary matter particles we can see. But who knows? Maybe there is the same asymmetry between dark matter and anti-dark matter so that annihilation stoped happening after the Big Ban, but maybe some dark matter particles are their own antiparticles. See

https://profmattstrassler.com/articles-and-posts/relativity-...
There is a difference between showing to start interest and shoving down the throat.
I know both kinds.
Even the stuff that's built to rigorous standards is mostly built with a serials of failsafes because the same issues of being able to trust the thing apply. But it's fine because like you note, failsafes limit the effect of any individual failure.

Beyond that too, I think it's just important for people to realize that most things just don't matter that much. Everything we do eventually has to reach human scale and at human scale, there's so much room for slop and correction that most failures don't matter. Missing a paycheck because the payroll computer dropped your row is awful, but society can be built around allowing people to recover from that. Late payment forgiveness, forbearance, procedures around cutting a new check early.

I think the biggest danger about the "presumption that computers are working correctly" is in it's ability to erode our understand of the fact that "to err is human". It's too easy if you assume the machines are perfect to assume that any errors are therefore malicious, and so it's easy to go from a system where you have "oops my tax software messed up, no big deal I'll file an amended return" to "the only way for a mistake like this to happen is to intentionally put in bad data, so you must be guilty of tax fraud". Or even worse "the computer won't let me do it". I understand you want computers to have check in place that prevent the overriding of procedure and you don't want to give your low level employees the ability to override procedure at will. I also think that EVERY system should be built such that it is possible with a certain combination of people on site at the point of contact to override ANY check in the system to make the state of the system match what it should be. My specific example in this case was a problem with a prescription at the pharmacy. The script had been partially filled because they had stocking problems, but instead of going into the "partial" state, it was closed as filled completely. The tech knew what had happened and knew we still were owed the rest of the script. The pharmacist knew what had happened and agreed we were owed the rest of the script. The store manager agreed. And yet no one could change the state of the system. The only option was to get a new script from the doctor for a new fill entirely. That's the danger of assuming everything is working correctly all the time.
IMHO, Safari has been consistently good for 20 years, and the need for defacto iOS support, and defacto chrome desktop support means the desktop version is generally supported most places.

I tend to use Firefox elsewhere too, primarily because of my disdain/distrust for/of Google and Microsoft. I know the WebKit/Konqueror relationship soured after a few years of Apple giving them massive, untenable patch sets, but haven’t kept up with their development. In the early 2000s it was really impressive what they were doing compared to the Mozilla bohemoth of the day.

I also find it sad that Opera and other implementations are out of the running. I’m sure one day some Blink challenger will arrive, just like some Gecko challenger arrived, just like some IE challenger arrived, but table stakes are so much higher than they were 15 years ago.
Pulsars(rotating neutron stars) and black holes are two possible outcomes when a large star is burned up and implodes. When there’s enough mass, you get a black hole. When there is less, you can get a neutron star: all mass converted to neutrons, as tightly packed as possible. When it rotates, it’s rotation frequency is observable as a train of pulses. A quasar is essentially a galaxy, (long ago and far away), with a supermassive black hole at it’s center. The black hole swallows a lot of mass, causing a lot of high energy radiation, which is how why in the beginning they were mistaken for strange quasi-stars, hence the name.
Come now; imagine a world where nobody could ever be convicted without mathematical verification of all components of evidence. Nobody could be convicted of anything, since even if we had 10 people and three 4k video cameras all see someone pull out a gun and shoot somebody, we can't have mathematical certainty even of the three video cameras, much less the unreliable wetware memories of 10 people. We might as well give up having trials entirely.
Lame is the most popular encoder so it is highly likely you have listened to its output.
> "I deal only with my regulars … I refuse strangers."

> ‘They are mostly strangers to us, and we just have to play it by ear in deciding whether to accept a cheque’, said an official.”

Sounds like a recipe for discrimination and inequality, which isn't mentioned in either article.
Having worked in the areas you are describing, it's still duct tape and rubber bands, they just are better prepared for redundancy and error recovery.
ELK/ELF are very popular, often with opensearch these days

The Grafana based stack is gaining popularity too (with loki)
Suppose that beyond confirmation that you actually received and looked at the email, they don't learn a lot. Might be they aren't even interested in identifying the receiver, just some rough estimate on whether they're able to pierce through spam filters.

More interesting hints might be in the accompanying text. What kind of content was used to lure you into amazon.co.jp? What was the sent-from / reply-to info?

My impression is that spam is usually unsophisticated and amateur. They intentionally raise transaction costs by looking inauthentic, to weed out wary victims because those will just be a pain when they finally need to trick them into believing they should pay $10,000 to receive a million.
For me, Bing providing citations is the killer feature.
“Need can be manufactured” ->

We love using all of this scare language “manufactured”, “attention held hostage”, etc. etc. because what is actually happening is so innocuous we have to exaggerate to make it sound bad.

“Manufacturing need” is just making people aware of a product that they need. I could “manufacture need” for a new diabetes drug simply by making more people aware of it. I do not see what is bad about this at all.
It wouldn’t be a war of choice.
This seems like a behavior from a government that can be trusted to have access to all encrypted communications traffic from its citizens. This is definitely confidence inspiring.
I readily concede your astute counterpoint but what I'm suggesting is that unlike actual cardinal numbers, words like "couple" are much more likely to be used euphemistically than literally, when in adjectival phrases. But in the noun form then I agree it means "a pair" and no more.
Me too man. I don’t like saying negative stuff about people, especially unprovoked (is not a counter). Feels like a grave responsibility. Always been that way! I love complimenting people.

I’m not sure if it’s connected but in the general sphere of things, maybe one downside I’ve noticed in my life is i can be a bit slow to notice when someone or something isn’t good for me. Even if it’s obvious, to others, i always wanna see the good, sometimes i think I’m in denial willingly! Haha… So I have learned to become aware of such people and their behavior, pattern recognition.
Next paragraph (quick tip) states that it also stimulates glucagon which is an insulin antagonist and keeps it in balance.

My read is that protein and fiber are better for keeping your blood sugar in balance but whole grain can give a safer boost if you’re low. Too much protein can hurt your liver/pancreas, but it’s actually hard for most people to eat “too much” protein as it makes you feel full quickly.
In all the companies I work for in the last 20 years "senior engineer" effectively meant someone with about 5 years of experience.

In general the bar is low, indeed, and the title tends to be quite aggrandizing.

The title that shows seniority ("been there, done that"), again in my experience, is the next one, which usually is "principal engineer".
There is a ton of money spent on anticipating demand. You all are just making statements to make statements, it seems to me.
Youtube never recommends me something and instead prefers to keep repeating old videos. Probably because people re-watch a lot.

Is there any way as a consumer to discover new content (matching my taste) on Youtube. Seems like newer channels struggle a lot with this problem.
Pons and Fleischmann also announced they were still searching for the real killer after their initial claims couldn't be replicated. As far as I know, they still are.
Yeah, we really need to go out of our way to make sure Nancy Pelosi has a say in our political process.

What if one of the most powerful politicians alive doesn't get to make this particular decision? She'll be so disenfranchised!