skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
At least with a bank there are some actual human beings that you can rant at and maybe, finally, persuade to take some action.

That is getting less and less common these days. Take companies like Google and Meta who pride themselves on not having a single human support person.

I even paid for Google support to try and get back into my Google account lol. Here's their reply:

"My name is Christopher, and I’ll be taking up your case here today. I understand you are trying to get back into a different Google account but are not able to. I understand how important this is to you to get back into your account. We'll work together to see if we can get you back into the account.

You've said you have access to your email address, password and recovery email but you lost your phone number in a fire.

Based on that, we currently don't have any other account recovery suggestions for you."
> Entertainment is not a sector of the economy where prices come down over time relative to income, the way food and consumer products have

Not necessarily true. AI is poised to upend the industry entirely. You don't even need to wait that long though - have a look at how they've replaced green screen and on-location shooting in the mandalorian with computer generated sets and a gigantic curved monitor the actors stand in front of. That saves them a ton of money compared to taking a whole film crew out on location.
youtube has native rss support.
I use Edge.

Vertical Tabs and Chromium without Chrome, what's not to like. Oh, and the ChatGPT sidebar.
I buy it dried and use it as a bacon substitute. I'm paying way too much for what I wish I could harvest.
Fair points, and I'd appreciate a source on your last statement from the HN guideline side. I just reviewed them to take into account more nuance that may have been added since the last time I checked. I will disagree with your interpretation of substance but defer to the guidelines.
Having been a Google engineer who bootstrapped a new recommendation system with the advantage of existing data and distribution... I'd take the latter any day. :)

It comes down to: engineer A says we should do X to make the system better; engineer B says we should do Y. How do you decide? You run an experiment against some known important metric. Do that hundreds or thousands of time a year and you eventually end up with a pretty decent system.

By buying up Apple's traffic they made it much harder for a potential competitor to form by removing one of the most important tools: enough traffic to run experiments.
That is true that the python trade is somewhat problematic and is accordingly regulated, but there are also a lot of people who are legally selling pythons on facebook and evidently don't get banned for it. Search "facebook python breeder" and they're easy to find. My conclusion is that the filtering system is totally and inexplicably capricious. A braindead computer program making indefensible decisions that it probably can't even justify to facebook employees themselves, let alone to the people it's banning. Maybe mentioning pythons or pandas alone would be fine, but both together gets you classified as an exotic smuggler dealing in literal bears? Who knows. Probably not even facebook knows.
Northern Irish, living in the Netherlands, commenting on hacker news, there must be severals of us!
Some interactive CFR[] walk throughs with commentary of CFR[] reference matarial/idea links for things like intermediate p-code for turtle pascal graphics[0], interactive automota[1], intermediate ascii code for piet[2] and/or Tromp topic areas[3] would be nice.

Plan for allowing snap shoting/transcribing interactive process using epsilon, lambda, process calculi macros?

[0] : https://www.philocomp.net/computing/turtlepascal.htm

[1] : https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conway%27s_Game_of_Life

[2] : piet : https://esolangs.org/wiki/Piet

[3] : https://tromp.github.io/
Hah, nice, my data is here:
https://globatic.blogspot.com/2013/10/the-23andme-full-and-r...
I don't know about Convoy specifically but generally speaking it's not even certain a CEO is getting a paycheck at all, even when the company is still solvent. Some take all their compensation as stock, especially while it's early days and risk is high.

If it's not certain they are getting paid even while things are still working, how can you say he is getting paid after running out of money? Unless you mean "paid with worthless stock" in which case I would say "you can't fund severance and health care with worthless stock."
"Alhamdulillah" is Arabic for "Praise be to god" and is used by Muslims nowadays as an alternative to Allah u Akbar, Takbir, or Narai-e-Takbir because those 3 terms have been co-opted by Jihadists.

This is the equivalent of translating "Praise Jesus" to "I love god and hate abortions"

Also, Allah to Arabic native speakers can be used to mean "The Lord" in general. Levantine Christians and even some older Mizrahis will use Allah in daily parlance for "God" or "Lord". For example, in colloquial Hebrew, Yalla/Ya Allah is a common expression similar to "Oh God" or "Jesus" or "Come On" when annoyed.
Literally from the abstract of the accompanying paper:

"Overall, we present evidence that language models linearly represent the truth or falsehood of factual statements."

You didn't even read anything before commenting just off the headline, did you?
While the TrailOfBits post is informative, they extrapolate the wrong premise from Brendan Gregg's original post[1]. Brendan's statement was originally about the particular set of eBPF tools created for observability (especially his own). These tools (like bcc and bpftrace) are specifically geared towards observability and were not built for security in mind, nor will they be "patched" or fixed for these purposes.

Does this imply that eBPF is a bad foundation for security-focused tooling? Brendan states the following at the close of this blog post:

> There is potential for an awesome eBPF security product, and it's not just the visibility that's valuable (all those arrows) it's also the low overhead. These slides included our overhead evaluation showing bcc/eBPF was far more efficient than auditd or go-audit. (It was pioneering work, but unfortunately the slides are all we have: Alex, I, and others left Netflix before open sourcing it.) There are now other eBPF security products, including open source projects (e.g., tetragon), but I don't know enough about them all to have a recommendation.

> Note that I'm talking about the observability tools here and not the eBPF kernel runtime itself, which has been designed as a secure sandbox. Nor am I talking about privilege escalation, since to run the tools you already need root access (that car has sailed!).

This reads to me that security tooling built on top of eBPF is possible and various organizations are in-flight making it happen (such as Falco[2], Tetragon[3], and Tracee[4]). These teams have recognized the shortcomings of eBPF and are layering other kernel-instrumentation capabilities such as kprobes and LSM hooks into their solutions.

Additionally, the TrailOfBits blog post states:

> Developers need to be aware of pitfalls like probe unreliability, data truncation, instruction limits, concurrency issues, event overload, and page faults. Workarounds exist, but they are imperfect and often add complexity.

These inherent limitations exist primarily because eBPF is a virtual machine within kernel space. Many of these constraints exist because eBPF programs should _never_ lock up the kernel. The eBPF verifier[5] does some checks on the possible code paths the program can take, such as finite bounded loops, null checks on variables, etc. The foundational aspect here is that the eBPF virtual machine is designed to protect the kernel while running programs in kernel space, and that imperfect/complex workarounds may be needed by security-focused projects to respect that foundation.

[1] https://www.brendangregg.com/blog/2023-04-28/ebpf-security-i...
[2] https://github.com/falcosecurity/falco/
[3] https:/github.com/cilium/tetragon
[4] https://github.com/aquasecurity/tracee
[5] https://docs.kernel.org/bpf/verifier.html
There's no money left to provide lol
AIDS (HIV?) test? Were they going to discriminate against people with HIV? I don't get it. What about other STDs?
Yes, I'm 20 now and got started with Scratch in middle school at 11/12 thanks to a teacher. I started taking a deeper interest after making a few games for my friends and classmates - it was really nice being able to take a project home and continue working on it :) Like dnsge, I'll also attribute my interest in programming to Scratch, and also thanks to a really great teacher who encouraged us to explore our ideas. Currently in university doing a computer science degree.
How dare you people don't want to be treated like a subhuman to make some early investors insanely rich?
Take it up with your elected representative, healthcare should not depend on your employer. Convoy literally does not have money. That's why they're shutting down.
My impression is that Commissioner Rosenworcel is just being performative. Let's be clear that net neutrality has only incidental relevance to national security. (At most, a rare national security issue would result from something similar to what happened when Verizon throttled emergency responders [1].) Also, in case anyone else brings the following up, net neutrality has nothing to do with government censorship of speech. Moreover, the FCC does not have authority to regulate speech on the internet (or any private speech at all, after the FCC repealed the misleadingly named Fairness Doctrine [2]).

Even if you have a problem with other parts of Title II, net neutrality is a net good for consumers. Or, it would be if the FCC believed in fighting for consumers in the first place [3]:

> And while Democratic FCC Commissioners Jessica Rosenworcel and Geoffrey Starks talk a good game about bridging the “digital divide” and addressing the “homework gap” (a lack of affordable broadband for kids), they generally lack the courage to even identify that concentrated monopoly power is the primary reason US broadband is spotty, slow, and expensive. It’s a political risk to do so.

[1] https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2018/08/verizon-throttle...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FCC_fairness_doctrine

[3] https://www.techdirt.com/2023/07/14/finally-close-to-having-...
This is why dissolution isn't some whopsey-doodle word. When there's nothing left, there's nothing left. If that is a risk, including in that is your private healthcare provision, leave this stuff up to the 20 year olds that don't have the health concerns. Coddled might be too diminutive of a phrase, but if it's a risk you can't live with by your life expectations, don't get involved. Pick another job on the market.

Now healthcare shouldn't be tied to employment, and it's not in my country. But this is the political choices of Americans in America. Not the fault of the individual companies who are subject to the system.
Though imagine how much more features and improvements that commercial product would have, if most or all of that headcount pouring over analytics were retasked to design, development, and actually talking to the users (or $deity forbid, shadowing some users to see how they use the software).

Other than being more careful due to software being sold on physical media, I wonder if that wasn't the lost secret source of software in pre-webapp times.
Sure they may have made money from a sale months or years ago. But they’re not walking away from this incident with a payout.
Your source for that 500ms fact has been debunked but mostly agree with your conclusion
Show HN: Load Gaussian Splats with a single line of HTML
First, the Department of Health and Human Services has an annual budget of > $US 1.8 trillion, or a little over $US 5,000/year on a per capita basis.

Note that this doesn't take social programs administered by other departments and agencies into account (e.g., the Department of Education, the Veteran's Administration, the Social Security Administration...). Those also do a great deal of social spending (especially Social Security).

While this is probably not as high as the EU on a per-capita basis, it's quite unfair to characterize it as "no" safety net.

Also, I find Galloway's argument that older people are too unhealthy to move back to Denmark (or wherever)... unpersuasive. You can be pretty damned unhealthy and still get on a plane nowadays.
Is that the whole passage? It probably doesn’t matter. I’m just curious because the exact claim I see is

> The "see translation" feature for user bios was auto-translating phrases that included "Palestinian" and “alhamdulillah” into "Praise be to god, Palestinian terrorists are fighting for their freedom."

Which reads oddly
If you can still operate the business for another 8 weeks, there's a chance that things will still work out, and it's pretty pessimistic to preemptively shut it down because you assume you're going to fail. Pessimists don't generally find themselves in the role of founder/CEO of a startup in the first place.
>or even current perceptions

This is always fun to think about, that there's lag to everything from the time light bounces off an object and travels to my retina to the processing my brain does to understand what it's being shown. So by the time I have processed a visual "reality" it doesn't exist in that state any longer.

Add in relativity and I could be experiencing a different time than someone else, AND a different space. If we are fundamentally fluctuations in various quantum fields coalesced into energetic matter that can interact with each other, the lag time between that field fluctuating and those fluctuations interacting with other fluctuations makes me marvel that we can even interact with each other lol
But it may very well be correctly understanding that people like to end sentences with an emoji, combined with that being the most likely emoji used in conversations like this. That becomes plausible when combined with most such conversations using little to no emojis (more professional and dry) but those that do (more emotive) tend to be between partners. Texting a partner about these topics might be more common than texting others, or at least more commonly emoji-heavy, which would be below the noise floor until also mixing in the probabilities of sentences being followed by emoji versus being followed by any particular word. These particular conversations would tend to express passionate love more than happiness, sadness, sarcasm, taking orders, or various other emotions. Suddenly a signal emerges from the noise, which is both interesting and statistically most useful.

This would all be solved if the predictive text engine knew the context beyond what was recently typed. I don't think this is typically true (yet?) -- it would be interesting if all predictions were at least binned by partner vs slang1 friend vs slang2 friend vs business acquaintance et al. with structured data coming to it from the app. Bit of a privacy question I suppose.
In addition to code generation, our team has found the new AI code review tools to be quite useful as well. We use CodeRabbit and we keep finding issues/improvements in every other PR.
ExcelJS v4.4.0 Released
Is that part of the contract that if the business is shutting down or laying people off that they need to continue to pay for things for you? I don't see why there's any obligation.
"An attacker would first scan for a host with a sequential and predictable sequence number (IPID). The latest versions of Linux, Solaris, OpenBSD, and Windows Vista are not suitable as zombie, since the IPID has been implemented with patches[7] that randomized the IPID.[1]"

Is this Wikipedia entry up-to-date. On NetBSD, there is a sysctl to randomise IPID.
Alhamdulillah is not some recently coined alternative, it has been one of Arabic’s stock expressions for centuries and centuries. It is what Arabic-speaking people (and not just Muslims) have always said after something good happens. It is what Muslims customarily say as they get up from eating a meal, or oddly enough, after they sneeze.
Yea just Google it, and hope Google does not direct you to some phishing website that steals your private information or that offers you to download malware.
> I have no idea what an actual solution would be though.

Take these robocars off the roads until they're read to respond to emergency vehicles properly.
"Safari fucking sucks. It's the modern Internet Explorer of browsers; a lot of modern web APIs that both Firefox and Chrome use just... don't work on Safari because the system has bugs or weird design decisions that don't follow spec"

Absolute nonsense. The web developers who go off about Safaris are overwhelming terrible webdevs who want to stick a "Made for Chrome" button on their website and be done with having to bother dealing with other browsers. It's actually a bit hilarious when Safari is called Internet Explorer -- there was a time when Internet Explorer offered all sorts of crazy new stuff (just like Chrome today) which threatened the user's privacy and security, but webdevs wanted it so they stuck "Made for Internet Explorer" and dropped a bunch of ActiveX controls on their page. If anything Chrome is the Internet Explorer of the day.

I'm pretty passionate about this because not only is it going to be incredibly damaging for the web when Safari is crushed (Firefox will be crushed simultaneously), it means whatever half-baked nonsense Google pushes out is going to be the norm.
That was probably the wrong term to use. I just mean people who don't think freewill exists. If I misunderstood something feel free to correct me. My specific contention is how exactly you can hold someone accountable if freewill does not exist, because that necessarily means they had no choice. On what grounds are they being held responsible? Assuming they should be.
There's nothing wrong. What's actually wrong is always using k8s even when it's overkill.
Doesn't the registration lock feature resolve this?
Entitlement is more prevalent than we think.
Lose 90% revenue in 1 quarter
I'm a Development Director and I manage a team of 74. My job is consists of a lot of meetings and other interruptions.

ChatGPT and other AI tools have lead to me increasing both my writing output increasing and having enough time to write code between those. That said, I'm not writing new features, more just refactoring and fixing up shit stuff.
It's extremely meh. It's iOS-ified. There are no files, just some proprietary database of your drawings. You can only export to PDF. You can't import vectors. There are no dimensions inspectors where you can enter numbers, because that feels weird in iOS.

You will draw your thing by hand and you will be happy.
Has any progress been made on creating your own vinyl records at home?
So you want LinkedIn to give this 3rd party website a cease and desist order? You could at best contact LinkedIn however I'm not sure they'll jump all over this.
Principles of PyTorch
What investor got rich off of Convoy?
State Department advises all Americans overseas 'to exercise increased caution'
I made games using the various Clickteam tools back in the early 2000s. They even had a flash competitor which I used to put games online.
You could easily rewrite this comment to be about child labor in coal mines and textile mills. At the end of the day people are starting to expect certain basics from businesses considering places like In n Out are now offering benefits packages, and its about time we also enforce certain standards. If that raises the cost of doing business, so be it. I expect the business would be even more lucrative if you didn't have to pay your employees at all but that's not a good argument for exploiting the worker.
If they cant interact with emergency vehicles well, which they cannot, then they shouldnt be on the road. This is only one of the growing number of obvious reasons why...
Ah, okay! That is actually very clever and I tip my hat to their lawyers for coming up with that approach.

Granted, one could I suppose have some concerns with an argument that says " We can't be as good because we don't have the ability to harvest nearly as much private data that users don't just hand you unless you intermediate yourself in their lives..."

... But there's meat on the bones of that being a roundabout way to argue consumer harm.
I disabled that feature as soon as it appeared (the less I use a messaging app, the best it is) and forgot about it.

Your comment makes me curious: I do really wonder how this feature is used. Signal announced it was really something users were looking for. I wonder if it was a weak attempt at convincing the Instagram crowd or if it is really popular with some population.

In the end, I’m still angry that they removed SMS support. That was really useful to have only one messaging app on my phone.
> making the feature up

This is super hard, often someone will write a mindless issue with a feature request without thinking about it profoundly.

Than the dev has to sift through the text to understand what is the underlying problem the user is facing, if the proposed solution is actually a good solution to that problem (it often isn't), what is a solution considering long term maintenability, if the feature has synergy with future features or if it solves or is close to solve other already existing issue so the solution scope should be adjusted. The design stage is huge and it's hard to do alone and also hard when other contributors only raise edge cases to try to break a proposed design without validating if the problem the developer extracted is adequate. The scoping and design is often very time consuming and hard to get it right. Usually you end up designing to the scope of available time to solve the issue at hand - time being a rainy Sunday afternoon, or around three and half hours.
Where is RWKV? With 10K+ github stars, it's become a foundation model for many.
If you install the LibRedirect plugin, your browser will automatically rewrite twitter links to nitter.net, which is much more convenient.
What did the translation, a dog?
LF macro / character variable set to form feed character (ctrl-L) for setting up an in-band line feed lot clearer/easier way to switch out the various stack pages.[0]

[0] : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S_qTVhKyY68
Ggreer/the_silver_searcher: A code-searching tool similar to ack, but faster
For the sake of argument, assume your contentions are true.

Now how do you draw a line from that to the probability that the technical team that has been let go is not high quality?
These emissions regulations don't cover just California, but most of New England, the Pacific, and the mid-Atlantic states as well. I think New York has a way to "fast track" new emissions laws from California, so that the states are kept in sync.

"California cars" were a thing in the early days when emissions were difficult to comply with. Even modern cars come with a "50-state compliant emissions" line item on the window sticker.

If California ratcheted up emissions standards too high, there's the possibility that such segregation could emerge again, particularly when it comes to trucks. There are already several trim levels of trucks that are specific to Texas, because the market there is so big. I could see a truck coming with a sticker that says, "RAM TRX can not be registered or sold in CA, WI, NY, [...] due to emissions restrictions."
Personalized Soups: Personalized LLM Alignment via Post-Hoc Parameter Merging
I'm more interested in making it useful than extracting value.

Longer term I think you'd monetize the infrastructure to run the automations at scale in the cloud.
Are most published research findings false?
Forgive my ignorance, but isn't the chrome extension market kind of dead?

I had some silly extension a long time ago but after receiving a lot of emails from Google saying that they were killing the ecosystem I've dropped them.
Since Xitter decided to play the 'log in to read this' game, Nitter Redirect extension has saved me a lot of annoyance

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/nitter-redire...