skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not best practice? That's a very generous way to describe storing plaintext passwords in logs. I've seen this in the wild too but that's no excuse.
This is common in Florida around hurricanes.
For me, the writings of Erich Fromm offer wonderful and coherent
insights..Particularly those that move love from something that
'happens to us' to something we're responsible for.
Now I’m very much interested in reading more about his life! Gotta say tho, sounds a bit like an ancient Marco Polo where maybe the myth is larger than the man at this point.

Still going to read more. Thanks for the citations.
Reverse Engineers' Hex Editor
It's a bit tangential to the main topic, but

> When people say “It’s a matter of principle!” they are usually doing something self-destructive.

Oof. That's an interesting perspective on some of the choices I've made in the past. If no other choice, then the choice to use Free Software as much as possible, even when it is awkward to do so, might surely count.

I note that the author does include the escape clause of "usually", so they're not claiming it as a universal. It is an interesting perspective to consider though. (Also, I've not caused any rifts with family members over principle, so at least I have that in my favour.)
Yeah looks like you're right about at least the syntax highlighting and macros, I can't find any reference to Borland doing code completion back then and what I did find was people from much later complaining that it'd take up to 5 seconds to return suggestions, I used it around 4.5 and really don't remember any of those features though. I guess it was almost 30 years ago now though and I was mostly just interested in making the asteroids do weird things.

So replace Notepad with Notepad++ in my previous comments. There are definitely fast editors that do the same thing as Borland editors did back then the ones like VSC do a whole lot more and support a whole lot more.
I don’t disagree, but one unnecessary thing can be infinitely more worthwhile than another unnecessary thing
Can you expand on what they got wrong?
didn't realise that's not a common expression everywhere, fixed
I am sorry, but I really don't understand.

With the same seed, and an extremely similar prompt, why would you get an entirely different image?

If I take seed 9999999 (just example) and my prompts are

(1) "very large gothic church at dusk, spooky, horror, red roses" and

(2) "very large gothic church at dusk, spooky, horror, white roses"

then with all models I tested over the last year or so, you get _very_ similar images, with different colored roses, and (at most) very minor changes eleswhere. this only seems to work if you keep in mind the prompt being parsed left to right, so changes further to the beginning of the prompt have larger effects. Again, of course, you need the same seed.

But, with this said, why would that be any different with plain/full/rich text. Apologies if I am somehow blinkered and asking something really obvious.
Not sure why this is downvoted. Is there some blaringly obvious life changing impact of holding faith in the common astronomer’s view of black holes / stars / etc that I am missing?
This question is essentially thought-terminating in most contexts as most of not all people can’t answer it given how littler know about how humans work.

Nerds will also get hung up on this because they can’t stand the notion that any aspect of their job doesn’t require their immense intelligence.

For most contexts, “will this tool help me”’is a much more appropriate question. Anyone conflating the two is doing themselves a disservice.
Nursing schools turning away 1000s of applicants during major nursing shortage
I guess I’m just surprised that the result is passable.
Is there an easy explanation of why these are true? I already struggle grasping e^i, and I completely don't understand what e to an irrational power even means, let alone why it would be -1. Why the circle circumference ratio has anything to do with this is completely beyond me.
Im 56 and I've applied to YC 2 times with projects that after turned susseful companies , and Yes im sure they will no invest on older people.
Which is now almost 20 years old to the day (posted originally on Oct 15th 2003)
Product Growth Database
Hey everyone!

For the past four years, I’ve been working as a PMM (Product Marketing Manager) and a Growth Manager, both as a solo entrepreneur and as part of a team. During this time, I’ve encountered a wide range of experiences—from team hiring and launch strategy to crafting marketing strategies, growth plans, and tackling niche-specific challenges. I’ve engaged with numerous users, conducting over 300 custdev interviews.

Throughout this journey, I’ve consistently collected materials that have proven invaluable to me. These materials span from strategic and visionary insights to practical guides and frameworks that I’ve used and found highly beneficial.

I meticulously sifted through this content, curating the most valuable pieces. Now, I’ve decided to consolidate all of this into a new database. I’ve also added convenient tags like SaaS, Fintech, Monetization, Mobile Apps, Metrics, and more, categorizing everything for easy navigation. In short, it’s become incredibly convenient.

Feel free to use it - https://separated-lungfish-431.notion.site/cc1a7a365ca34f1a9...
Is it poor advice though? I don't think the article is suggesting to skip designing a nice landing page -- the article is saying that customizing the _login page_ is not worth the effort, which I agree with.

I can say that at my last company, redesigning the login page was bottom of the stack of things we wanted our first designer to work on. We just had a centered "Login with Google" button, our logo, and a email + password form. What else do you need?
Neat! I appreciate your approach to preventing hallucinations. I've used something similar in a different context. People make a big deal about hallucinations but I've found that validation is one of the easier aspects of AI architecture.
Consider: an argument that boils down to "MOST planes didn't fall out of the sky, it's probably fine" might perhaps not be as persuasive as one first imagines.
I want to like this page, I really do. But please don't use Computer Modern on the web... It's a pretty ancient typeface that's made for paper first, and looks bad on a raster display, even a pixel-dense one.
Show HN: Use your familiar Markdown editor to create and publish web pages
I'm excited to introduce my own developed Markdown editor to everyone. It's built on the Monaco editor and designed specifically for developers. This editor integrates various features such as document management, resource management, and MDX extensions. You can embed images, audio, video, and even use plugins like drawing tools, calendars, and cards to showcase your creativity. What's even more thrilling is that it allows users to customize PostgreSQL table structures, insert and display data in Markdown documents, and even collect form submissions.

My original intention in design was to use MDX to describe pages (with limited differentiation), and utilize low-code building tools to present and collect data. This way, users can use simple text to describe individual web pages and aggregate multiple web pages into their site.

Now, it has completed a portion of the work; for instance, the blog on my official website is self-generated using this method.

However, most users should use it as a markdown editor with extension components. I'm not sure how to better describe my vision. I really hope that you are interested in trying it out and providing suggestions.
> I hate . . . , My mum works over at the, over on the ward and she said "not another bank statement." I said "it's the second one in two days." And she said "Do you want me to go to the bank for you at lunchtime?" and I went "No, I'll go this time and explain it myself." I tell you what, my bank are awful. They've lost my bank book, you see, and I can't find it anywhere. I belong to the TSB Bank and I'm thinking of changing my bank 'cause they're so awful. They keep, they keep losing . . . [someone comes in to bring some tea] Oh, isn't that nice.

In all seriousness, this feels weirdly similar to listening to Donald Trump.
> I've seen this in the wild too but that's no excuse.

See, the LLM also saw it in the wild...
This whole approach makes little sense for a developer (not to mention a user). When a consumer buys a phone at particular price point, they expect it to offer some level of performance. Now if devs can offload to these accelerators on a tiny subset of devices in the market, it will by definition lead to a fragmented user experience (and a ton more dev work). Why bother?

I am becoming convinced that CPU (and maybe GPU) is the only viable accelerator on Android devices. All these fancy accelerators are just for phone makers to do their own thing (mainly camera crap). Might as well make it part of the ISP.

Also, I fear Apple is going to eat Android's lunch at this rate :(
This is because google docs is now widely used as a malware vector.

Send the user to a google docs page, and because it is on the google domain it is trusted by corporate firewalls and AV scanners.

The 'tracking' is in fact this page:

https://www.google.com/url?q=https://wikimediafoundation.org...

And that alerts the user to the fact they are leaving google and ending up on another site - which hopefully reduces the effectiveness of using google docs to distribute malware.
It isn't an either/or for most countries. I suspect America and Russia will have to change enormously, the rest of the west just needs decent public transport, cogeneration of heat, insulation, and some changes to agriculture. Nobody is going to have an awful life if we deal with climate change in a just way, even if we limit ourselves to today's technology.
Your mac can already do this for usd files fyi
An institution which fails to use a power is precisely equivalent to one that doesn’t hold that power at all.

As for the last few, I’m basically just saying we should dismantle the current “journal” concept entirely (it stands only to benefit those who receive the fees it takes and those who derive self-worth from being published in a “prestigious” journal), and replace it with a system by which for any given scientifically testable hypothesis, a collection of many different reproduction attempts and their respective methodologies and results are immediately available all side-by-side. With that in place, no scientific result would derive any credibility from being “peer reviewed” or not, but rather from the quantity and diversity of reproduction attempts it has faced.

This database should be free to query and free to insert into. Individual papers may support community comments to serve as the weak “peer review” we currently have, but at no point should these comments be considered anywhere near equivalent to a full reproduction attempt.
As someone that’s done both, you are certainly overstating the suffering endured by not compiling your own Python. I very much believe that this is a consequence of your ideology rather than any indication of frequency.
I'm pretty sure the stated intent of the redirect is to prevent phishing (that is, provide an opportunity for Google to warn users about visiting a known dodgy site). The ability to track is just an added bonus!

Microsoft does this too with Teams. Links that my colleagues and I share with one another to _internal company sites_ get link checked then redirected. Microsoft must have a treasure trove of data about external company employee browsing habits as a result.

I would have infinitely more respect for companies that are upfront about their intentions, no matter how nefarious: "we're doing this to help protect you from phishing. But also, 99% of links are probably not phishing. So this feature really enables us to collect data to track what you do, and perform analytics to improve our bottom line".

Why sugar-coat it?
> borderline deceitful

why borderline? It is entirely deliberate deceit.
Related: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27581391
Imho, any 50-100$ template would do. It's not about aesthetics being unimportant. The scale of measure here is ROI and the ROI of doing it yourself to get something good looking is probably bad for most startups.
I have a feeling you're onto something but also something feels off, like there's a catch we're missing.

> Then it just re-sorts them all when an object moves (which would be very cheap)

Given player input and moving enemies this is every frame anyway, and your solution sorts four angles instead of one.

Wait, do you mean "insertion sort the moved object from its original position"? I guess that would be cheap if it's just a handful.

EDIT: if he is using an adaptive sort it shouldn't really matter should it? Although using one sorted list per axis seems smart (you don't need four, symmetry means one sorted list is the other in reverse)
Sorry for the tangent, but the following is surprising to me:

> My bank are awful, by the way, is grammatical in British, though not American, English.

How would someone phrase this in idiomatic American English?
Here is a drawling of what they think this tablet says:

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:YBC_7289_sketch.svg

It's just a bunch of numbers scribbled onto a tablet. For all we know it could just be some guy writing down the number of sheep he is willing to sell to his neighbor or something. To say this tablet proves the Mesopotamian knew about Pythagorean's theorem is quite a stretch.

To the people who want to believe, there is nothing that can be said. Believe what you want.

Also, this tablet has no provenance. According to the wikipedia page on this tablet, it says "It is unknown where in Mesopotamia YBC 7289 comes from" Basically it just magically appeared one day. For all we know it could be faked. In any other field, this artifact would be ruled inauthentic. But in this field, for some reason it just doesn't matter.
maybe if we make it look more like a phishing site it will select only the customers that truly value our product
I think most of the people hyping it up are just thinking about the pure money-saving/generating side of it. You can automate away entire teams of people, imagine all the savings! You can generate infinite content with 2 clicks for basically free, think of the money to be made there!

They of course ignore the fact that most people don't want to be talking to a robot and would take the human any day of the week. And most people create things as an outlet for their creativity or whatever else, not (solely) as a way to make oodles of money.

The company I work for provides tools for Support teams, and there's been talks from the higher ups about "automating away 90% of conversations", which basically translates to us auto-closing 90% of all incoming messages for our customers based on some "AI" decisions. The only people who buy into it are the CEO/CTO and their direct underlings, everyone else in the company realizes how fucking stupid and shortsighted that is, but they don't care. It's the big hype thing, all the competitors do it regardless of how idiotic it is, and our customers want to get rid of as much human labor as possible.
I don't think that Uber through SMS would be strong enough to compete with taxi services.

One of the core features that made me use Uber was the map - I could see where the driver is going and how far away is he. Also, the app is localised into language that I can understand and I can see the price upfront without having to worry about getting scammed. Recently I had to book a taxi over the phone at the end of the world (literally - Ushuaia) in a language that I can barely speak and the experience was rather stressful in comparison with using an app.
Having seen the parts tracking system of a european helicopter manufacturer: They had the most insanely detailed parts tracking system (including certa for every part and sub-assembly and supplier) I have ever seen. I would be surprised if it takes them a lot of effort to figure out which planes are affected.
| But who wants to listen to a computer copy of someone else's voice? No one.

Id imagine a lot of people would be up for doing this if it improved call quality..

If you could reconstruct a persons voice from text in realtime locally on your phone you would only need to transmit compressed text during the call reducing the bitrate a tonne. And those volume issues and difficult to remove voice artefacts would cease to be a problem too (assuming the senders side can still transcribe correctly).
oh classic. Nothing is "gefährliche Drohung" unless it's pointed at public figures
> but you already chose to suffer by not having control of your tools

~Gaslight much?~

Edit:

How about not insulting people who don’t share your point of view?
Google benefits as long as you use Android, with Play Store, Google Search and the general Google ecosystem. The problem with long-term support was lack of discipline, not lack of incentive.
Could the problem be with the DC current that is being supplied via USB power from the car / power adapter? If this DC current is very noisy, then it could make the noise generated worse I presume?
Super interesting, I think this level of 3D client interaction is above my pay grade
People say money makes the world go round. False. The International Earth Rotation Service makes the world go round.
Langchain previously had a nice blogpost about how they build their RAG chatbot, maybe there are some helpful hints in there: https://blog.langchain.dev/building-chat-langchain-2/
I don't think it's possible to say. All we know is that fake parts are in circulation.

We can assume some aircraft have fake parts out there, or there wouldn't be a market for them.

But it must be hard to trace fake parts.
I'm still not happy with any of this: the model is traversing a semantic field according to inherent probabilities, which are in turn a function of its specific aggregation. Hence, as an alleged "speaker", it is more like coerced to these "hallucinations", which are more "in the faults" of the semantic field, rather than being a production of any agency. We may say, this phenomenon is "oozing" from the semantic aggregation, as the model is under stress.
>Any tips on building robust LLM software?

Honestly, it's difficult.

One reason why we are very happy with our results is because the person in charge of experimenting with the LLM-flow, while highly intelligent, is not talented with languages (honestly, he's the opposite).

This forces him to come up with creative solutions where others might get more mileage just with flawless prompts. Thanks do this, we discovered some really interesting tricks which help us solve problems that the available literature does not discuss.

Based on the flows he designs, I revise his prompt templates for more precision and token efficiency.

>And yeah I agree on how important test cases are. Having some sort of objective benchmark for judging how effective prompts are is really useful.

Its not just about effectiveness, but about ensuring that no false-positive-inferences make it into production: for a given prompt template, deeply investigate which edge cases of input data would lead to false positives. then, adapt the template and api-params until the unit test has 100% success.
Complete BS. Early '90s, perhaps — Users have advanced in their judgmental capabilities. And these days, you only have .5 seconds to make a first, splendid impression. The details are not the details, they are the product.
Ah yes. Broad money supply in the US and yet the US has among the lowest inflation in the world.
I don’t know if either question is more „appropriate“. One is more scientific and philosophical, the other is practical.

I mean a power drill is also helping me a lot, without being intelligent.
I feel like this is one of the biggest missed opportunities. Why do we insist on our energy system to be infinitely flexible and full power available 24/7? Is a habit of doing the laundry at night worth more than additional millions of tons of CO2 in the atmosphere?

I understand convenience, laziness and inertia (resisting change) but I also think changing the times when we click "power on" is a simpler solution than mining millions of tons of more lithium, no?
> Search always required logging in

I always used a search engine to search. Site search is usually worse than Google (is/was)
Magnetic watchbands like the Milanese Loop band Apple sells can also cause issues with magnetic lid sensors.
Trafficking/laundering fake aircraft parts out (possibly mixed in with genuine articles) is hugely profitable. There was a major scandal about this many years ago when the USAF found several quite sophisticated parts (not just nuts and bolts) were in fact counterfeit.
Edited for typo.
SNPE seems like the old way and QNN is the future as I understood it. I ran into some engineers at a recent AI conference and it appeared even they could not explain how to do model optimization in a sane way. What the heck is Qualcomm thinking? For my work, I just decided to ignore their accelerators for now.
Terrible advice.

If no one can understand your work, then no one will use it.
Or it could just be better thermal management, i.e. slower ramp up.

It could also be as simple as a bug causing the CPU to waste additional cycles in a specific set of circumstances, which would also partially explain the reports of excessive battery usage.

Considering that the iPhone 15 Pro is basically just "last years phone" in new clothes and with a bigger battery, i find it hard to believe that it would suddenly go from no overheating issues to massive issues.
currently it is not open source, an LEMP stack, also a MVP and looking for improvement.

The next iteration will turn it into a truly 1-time use fully encrypted inbox, implementing a PGP with end to end encryption in next iteration.
The public key will store in our database, will be used to sign message before send to our server.
The private PGP key is expected to store as a AES-CBC-128 format by your 8 digits pin (or if you want longer)
and the 8 digits pin will be hashed before send to our database.

The next iteration proposed design is supposed to be fully encrypted.
https://health.ec.europa.eu/tobacco/product-regulation/syste...

> to address the issue of illicit trade
My point is that people WILL use your Discord as a forum and it WILL accumulate valuable knowledge.

This knowledge should be mirrored to the web so it's discoverable and archivable. And to do that you need consent - you should notify users now even if you don't implement it now.
> Currently, NOVAS has three different editions, for C, Fortran, and Python.

I imagine the Python versions wraps one of the other two. But are the C and Fortran versions separate, or does one wrap the other? If not, how are they related? Parallel implementations kept in sync by hand? Used to check each other? Machine translated? Code-generated from an upstream definition?
History is written by some combo of historians & surviving records.

With "records" being any physical objects that outlast oral history: writings, clay tablets, the pyramids of Egypt, etc.

(and note the "surviving" bit!)

This says nothing of what really happened in the past. Only what exists in the present to support particular reconstructions of past events.
Did you install hackernews before posting here?
I keep hearing stories of nurses whose jobs become unfeasible (40 day on shifts and such) but they are getting 3x pay rates and other perks like signup bonuses to work for "traveling nursing" outfits.

From the very little I've read on it seems like the employment agencies are negotiating better than the nurses unions. It appears that theres a perceived need to have an intermediate agency between the hospital and its staff now but I don't get why that is.
I used https://www.answeroverflow.com/ which can be self-hosted.