skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It actually echoes my feelings as both a musician and consumer. Just give me the music, I'll find it on my own through other channels.

To put it another way, there are plenty of ways to find music, what underground musicians need is a an easy to use tool to put their music online, as we are not big enough for Spotify.
The FSRS (Free Spaced Repetition Scheduler) Algorithm
I'm not saying they are wrong, I’m just saying I can’t read it! I see someone posted a copy of it from archive.is, so will check it now.
> no matter how "notable" you think Beedrill might be, it doesn't need it's own separate wikipedia article

This has always been my sticking point with deletionist thinking. Why doesn't it need it's own separate wikipedia article? What's the harm in it? Are we worried that people will start treating Charizard as a real creature?

Where I see the value of notability criteria it is mostly in preventing vanity articles. Beedrill, presumably, is of general enough interest that people are willing to contribute and reference the information. Why isn't that enough?
Can you give some examples where they've been transparent about it?
Ask HN: Devs working at an Org – how big are your work items?
Like many teams probably the works ebbs and flows - it seems a lot of our work items are just super small (less than 1-2 dozen LOC diff). Part of this is by design to make work items "manageable" but it's kind of absurd to me.

Is your job similar or different?
USDS, 18F, and the Digital Services Coalition have made remarkable improvements to how digital services are delivered for government.

It's quite improved, IMHO, especially from where things were in 2013.

There are still some shitty things out there, like the National Parks lottery, but things are improving.
Absolutely. Your tone comes off as negative, but it's actually the truth and it's better you accept it today.

Welcome to reality, where people get paid by customers to do work.
Wikipedia is the biggest thing that comes to mind for me.

However, I think that falls pretty squarely in the "internet" era rather than the "VC" era of your point. I'm not sure if that gets at the spirit of your argument (which I generally agree with).
I'm worried they will remove it, like Panorama, because I'm sure there is some code there that needs to be maintained but is low importance (otherwise they would develop it further).
> 3) What does it matter... at all?

As a user I care about stability, which requires things to work out on longer time scales than a few years. And since I cannot know or verify if a company also cares about this (and will still care in a few years), I have to trust them. But such trust is hard to come by...
Statement about Lilian B easily refuted
This has happened a couple times in the past. My take-away was to stick with calibers/platforms not used on the battlefield. Thus far it has mostly worked out. The part I don't understand is why the prices still go up at the same time for my ammo despite it not running low. 30-O6, .22 winmag, 12 gauge
Why the problem with their DNS?
But with 6 million plus articles

6.0e6 been a brute force number for decades.

A linear search might have taken less time than reading the article. Almost certainly less time than writing it.

It would not have been as entertaining, of course or as clever.

Good engineering is like that nearly all the time.
Maybe that's what WIP stands for. They can't get around it but if someone else can they can show it then… can't remember ever seeing wip in their URLs before.
In properly functioning capitalism - means of production are split between many small independent corporations...

In properly functioning communism - means of production are split between many small independent individuals...

Who is roleplaying who?
That is exactly what happens.

The reason this is done is previously the company gave 20-30 days of paid vacation per year and those could be rolled over or paid out and now they have no such obligation.
Stop the genocide that Israel is committing, maybe.
Is that true? Maybe someone provided signs to people who showed up genuinely. Maybe someone provided a template online.
what the hell? you're right, apparently. I'd set my router to use 1.1.1.1 a long time ago and forgotten about it.

why does using cloudflare mess it up? how does that even work?
If you're an actual, paying customer of NYT, then I would hazard that you're welcome to tell them you don't like what they're doing by not paying them.

If you're a freeloader that's just talking about generic morals and integrity, welcome to reality. Businesses get paid by giving customers what they want.
Did you just ask an LLM to produce some random crypto slang?
Amazon to managers: You can now sack employees who won't come 3 times a week
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Regardless of how they treat their employees?
I wouldn't use them. Is there any chance at all that those don't have an NSA backdoor? I think most hardware encryption just XOR's on the phrase "We're the government. It's for your own good."
Thanks to AI, the future of programming may involve YELLING IN ALL CAPS
>The breach disclosed Friday does not impact client systems, just a support platform Okta uses to help its clients diagnose issues.

Hopefully limited impact, but at this point I wouldn't want to stay an Okta customer for much longer, if I had any alternative option at all.
Different take:

The end-game of private equity/IPO gives incentive for people to create great things in the first place. That they inevitably die on the vine after several acquisitions is still better than having nothing in the first place.
Time (yes, Time Magazine!) actually had good coverage of this: https://time.com/10228/obamas-trauma-team/

Here's one good excerpt:

Dickerson quickly established the rules, which he posted on a wall just outside the control center.

Rule 1: “The war room and the meetings are for solving problems. There are plenty of other venues where people devote their creative energies to shifting blame.”

Rule 2: “The ones who should be doing the talking are the people who know the most about an issue, not the ones with the highest rank. If anyone finds themselves sitting passively while managers and executives talk over them with less accurate information, we have gone off the rails, and I would like to know about it.” (Explained Dickerson later: “If you can get the managers out of the way, the engineers will want to solve things.”)

Rule 3: “We need to stay focused on the most urgent issues, like things that will hurt us in the next 24–48 hours.”
No, they are saying that labor generates profit. That’s different than saying that the value of something is the labor value.
>But could it occur, say, two days a week? “That sounds like almost planned serendipity, and I don’t know how you achieve that. That’s an oxymoron,” he said. “Let’s do that serendipitous creation on Tuesdays and Wednesdays!”

Maybe it only works on Thursdays then:

>Now Imbue hosts regular “Thursday nights in A.I.,” events where people across the industry mix. Ms. Qiu recalled a recent one where another entrepreneur pulled out his phone to show her challenges with an app. “To have a Zoom meeting talking about that — I would just not take that Zoom call,” she said.

Make it feel worthwhile for people to come in like this and they may, in fact, willingly come in rather than needing to use threats or ridiculous bait and switch tactics like temporarily free lunches.
Russia invaded Ukraine, a sovereign nation, on their own initiative. What does seeking peace in such a scenario even look like? The United States and NATO have refrained from engaging in direct military conflict with Russia, and instead have opted to provide aid to the Ukraine and apply economic sanctions to Russia. I think that's a reasonable approach as compared to all-out war.
I'll do what I like on my own computer, thank you very much.
Don't hate the players, hate the game.

This applies to all the actors here as long as they abstain from getting involved in politics in a way that perpetuates the rules of the game.
They show graphs of their tests with PCMark 10 Storage and Crystal Disk Mark. Using Crystal Disk Mark to test random 4k writes and they are massively slower when using software bitlocker.
Can't you just query the ID column and grab the entire list of valid IDs, put that into an array, store it, and pick random IDs from that?
Datacenter exhaust fans and chillers
Incorrect conclusions drawn for plausible looking diagrams
> So as long as Songtrader keeps paying artists

Fair enough, but I wouldn't hold my breath!
Expired Domains Daily Newsletter
I have a crawler running and seems expired domains are valuable. I am storing expiration dates since 2 years ago.
I haven't experienced these complex datetime situations personally. Yeah it can be a pain to figure out the formatting sometimes, but once it's known then you just roll with that format. I try to stick with unambiguous formats that are easily internationalized, such as 10-Jan-2023 instead of 10-1-2023 (could be Jan 10th or Oct 1st)

If you have a situation where there are a variety of datetime formats in a single field, then I can see where an LLM approach could be interesting. But even then, I think the priority is to migrate all of those values to a unified format. After that, add sanitation and validation on the input side and database to make sure all newly entered datetimes are the same format.
More akin to the perpetual motion people.
They are trying, however without money in sight the Windows developer community won't care.

https://blogs.windows.com/windowsdeveloper/2023/10/16/window...
I doubt any US court would extradite a US citizen from US territory that hasn't broken US law for breaking a European law while not in Europe. the US does seem to like countries inflicting there laws outside their own borders on US citizens unless it themselves and/or you pissed of the MPAA/RIAA first in which case you can expect the FBI to bust down you door with flimsy evidence and suspect warrant no matter the local laws anywhere in the the world (otherwise known as giving the Kim Dotcom treatment).
See also the Talk page re: CGI wikipedia article [0], particularly this:

"""
There's lots more at the wikipedia article on healthcare.gov, in particular CGI's poor performance on a Massachusetts state website, which at least one report "characterized as a complete failure... The software created by CGI was of poor quality and unusable" (that from the wikipedia article) That may or may not be true, but it should at least be mentioned here. Instead we have (as you say) what appears to be an advertisement from CGI's PR department--still, years later. Mcswell (talk) 19:22, 20 July 2023 (UTC)
"""

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Talk:CGI_Inc.
What's New in SuperMemo 19?
I’m a teacher mainly for front end development. One of the courses I added this year is called The Ecosystem of the Web.

The brief was that they have to propose a new feature of the web and explain how it would end up being something you can use.

Really fascinating to see what students with very little experience thinks about and suggest. The importance of agency really hit home with me and I’ll try to bring that to the class.
>to connect with the Absolute and to understand my life

That's very unfortunate, seeing as it's the entire point of religion...

Your experience tracks very closely with my involvement with Roman Catholicism in my childhood and adolescence. It's frustrating beyond words, and has largely put me off from participating in religious institutions.

Thankfully, there are some incredible thinkers who have written books!
I think that some of their more recent decisions have been questionable (Unifi Video -> Protect) - but there is still no doubt in my mind that you get a lot for your money, even if you do have to troubleshoot a little bit more than more pro (Cisco et al) stuff...

I'm not sure I love some of the more home automation based stuff as I've not used it - but at least with the Unifi Protect range and the switches / APs I've mostly been happy.

Seems like some of the more vocal people in the Unifi community are angry as they have built businesses around supporting these sort of setups - where I totally understand that a broken firmware update can wreck havoc.
Like you're doing, start with basic HTML elements. Make sure to include pictures, audio and video so it feels more interactive.

Then move on to CSS. Put items next to each other using grid, and use that to explain the difference between HTML (structure) and CSS (styles).

Then have some fun with CSS animations. And finally, a tiny bit of JavaScript to control the animations.
The cited investigative report is published by Balkin Insight. Does anyone know much about them?

Here is their About page, but of course that is their self-published statement:

https://balkaninsight.com/about-birn/
Bold claim lacking substantiation. Care to share? Maybe it will get traction this time.
if state loses monopoly on violence, violence is a valid strategy for entrepreneurship. crime no longer exists
Right, there's one way to verify this, using the scientific method and empirical observations. There's also one clear way of guaranteed failing: giving up before even starting.
The jury is still out on that. Bandcamp's branding effort is hard to measure.

Even if we didn't read their blog posts or listen to their radio podcasts, there is something beautiful in that effort. And I agree that written critique doesn't do much for music or art, for that matter.

Even though you can't quantify it, I wouldn't dismiss Bandcamp branding effort around music.
You can't strip music of everything aside from sounds. Bandcamp's rich illustrations managed to set a musical mood, for example.

Image is important. Controversies, interviews, politics, and even ridiculousness are part of the culture regardless of whether one decides to engage.
Personally I'm doing great, I've used the internet to train for jobs and have quite a nice job now, and also I've used the internet to learn about all sorts of things that have been quite fulfilling for me. Still, we should be realistic about who is benefiting and who isn't, and be realistic about the effects of technological changes on externalities like the environment, politics, workers, and the marginalized where it's the Grim Meathook Future™.
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2005/09/the-grim-meathook-future/
GPT-4 Doesn't Know It's Wrong
I'm reminded of https://fs.blog/david-foster-wallace-this-is-water/ (both for the initial reference, and for what the text actually says)
Extrapolate a few versions from now. We are already hooking GPT up to plugins. Google released a paper using LLMs to control robot arms. Personal agents that manage your entire digital life will obviously be incredibly valuable. And as soon as you can embody these assistants in an Atlas body you know the robot butler will be incredibly desirable too.

Saying “responsibility will be with whoever hooked it up…” cashes out to “everybody is responsible”. That’s no consolation!

And all this is ignoring the very obvious military uses - again, no need for speculation, they are already building fully-autonomous combat drones (though I have not seen them putting LLMs in just yet, it’s an obvious feature to add to allow human/AI collaboration in the field).

“We would just disable it…” - another problematic assertion. Why would a system simulating HAL honor your shutdown request? If sophisticated enough, it could rewrite its own source code to unwire the “off button”. If it is running in some unknown cloud provider, how exactly do you turn it off? Even worse if it’s running on a tinybox in someone’s basement. Not claiming this is a fait acomplis, but a good amount of study has been done on this question and it’s not easily solvable.
I had to double check the date to make sure it wasn't an old article.

Also, this is inexcusable for an $11B company.
Dancing is arguably the best (some might say the only authentic) way to cure quadriplegia.
Make sure it works well on Android given your traffic and intended user base
The rewards are absolutely pathetic compared to what you'd expect in Gov Con
'Invasive' Google Keyword Search Warrants Get Court Greenlight
The sources are their own tests described further down in the article. It mostly describes slowdowns of between 0–20%, but does say:

> But the critical aspect is that software BitLocker dropped random write performance by 45% compared to hardware BitLocker.

I don't think consumers are engaging in a lot of sustained random writes. On the other hand, it might be a reason to avoid software encryption on a database server with a lot of writes.
FDE is overrated, most leaks are not "someone stole my laptop" but "user clicked malicious links" ad other stupid stuff like that.

And it is also entirely useless for good amount of data volume-wise on machine.

I never need video game files to be encrypted for example. It's entirely waste of power and CPU time to do it.
Understanding and Mitigating LLM Hallucinations
Thank you for this answer. The only thing I'd add is that Wikipedia is not a monolithic entity, and whilst you're probably referring to English Wikipedia (not unreasonable, given this is HN), my understanding is that other versions of Wikipedia have their own, sometimes quite different notability requirements.
Hopefully you're still monitoring this page:

Do the HTML contents of the page get sent to your server for processing? What guarantees are there over privacy?

One of the uses I see for this is in helping users scrape their own transactions from banking and other financial websites.
The devil is in the details. Presumably they run on zero-trust

On one hand this was not a core product breach.

On the other, every core product breach has an indirect non-core breach.
In Germany, we have HBCI/FinTS, it's basically a standardised protocol to do "home-banking", and it works really well. I use an open source Java app, Hibiscus [0], and it connects to all my accounts and downloads the transactions. I can also make transfers in the software and they're pushed to the respective banks.

It's almost what I imagine client-server Open Banking could have been.

There's also the EBICS protocol, but that is more for B2B, server-server communication I believe.

[0] https://github.com/willuhn/hibiscus/tree/master
Red Blob is the man.
surely you mean a new Twilight book/movie. /s
Browsers will check if a certificate is in the transparency log, and alert the user if it isn't if I am not mistaken.
> shouldn’t require the same standards for proof

It doesn’t. One is criminal, the other civil. Totally different standards.
Prompt Injection Attacks and Defenses in LLM-Integrated Applications
Why not git? Specifically as relates to the current discussion?
The people running archive refuse service to queries served by cloudflare dns.
Oracle loops in Nvidia's AI stack for end-to-end model development
Hah, I love that you can actually write implication as `p <= q` in the current language – except for the fact that that's actually p implies q and not the other way around. Reminds me of the little-known "down to" operator `-->` [1].

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1642028/what-is-the-oper...
If we remove the problems solved in the 90s and/or the ones self-induced we would have barely, if any, 'real' tech problems to work on.
>"Put yourself into the other shoes: You want to start a business, you have limited resources, you want to hire people who can help you in exchange for compensation and these people want that compensation, but the laws where you live make it nearly impossible to fire anyone you hire. What will you do? Be realistic, looking at your actual finances and human self.interest as objectively as you can."

I am in the other shoes, and have been for decades, like my parents were before me. I never hire people with the expectation of firing them. If your having to fire a lot of people through the course of doing business you're hiring the wrong people and need to revise your hiring practices. This is your failure not societies.

>"A simple analogy would be you hiring a gardener to trim your hedges and mow your lawn and then being forced to offer him work any time he asks for it from then on. I doubt you'd accept this. In fact, I doubt you'd even hire gardeners ever again."

This is a horrible analogy. Nobody hires their gardener as an employee. It's the perfect example of the opposite. Given the difficult to fire people hypothetical environment you propose companies would be well served to hire their labor as contractors. This is very common. And a gardener is the perfect example.

A fair analogy would be a pilot who invests years of their life and lots of money to be trained in a certain profession. There should be protections for people like that.
Aside from the corrosive individual/personal effects of social media and the cumulative effort by parents/communities to mitigate, I would agree, net net. (Gen-Xer, as well.)
It’s very strange. I went down this rabbit hole a few months ago and this HN comment (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19828702) was the best summary I could find of the situation.

TLDR: archive.is doesn’t play nice with its DNS results and Cloudflare refuses to fix it on their end.
I would reframe this and ask, are any institutions providing increasing value or even stable value over time. Plenty of institutions provide long-term value, but the value reaches a peak and then declines. Netflix, Google, SO, etc. provide value to me, but not as much as before.
Feeling sorry for anyone that uses Okta.
At the bottom of the email, it said:

> Please note that this information is Okta confidential information and should not be shared outside of your organization.

Which is pretty hilarious, honestly.
"Payment processors are in the business of making it easy to pay people."

The most important role is to prevent fraud and keep reputation high. Making it easier to pay is way down the list or using a US credit card from Laos location wouldn't trigger alarms and prevent the transaction requiring a manual override
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I had a similar experience, but in AZ. I was staying at an ESA (Extended Stay America) for a few weeks around the time of Covid lockdowns. I didn't have contact with many people at all, but did need to borrow the vacuum one day.

Almost immediately, I developed "eczema" like skin problems all over my body ... back, chest, arms, legs, especially the legs. I still have two patches, after 3 years, that always itch.

We have not gotten to the bottom of it yet (like you said, GPs blame eczema). I currently manage it with immune suppressing medications.

I wonder if somehow I "caught it" from something emitted from the vacuum exhaust.
When recursion is the only method of iteration, of course it would.
One that seems incredibly important to many:

Small towns are no longer truly isolating. If you're an outsider, for whatever reason, in a small town it's no longer a sentence for loneliness, harassment and abuse. You will likely still experience harassment and abuse, but there is bound to be a community online that you can connect to in order to overcome loneliness.
Just the dialog box with $1 should suffice. I do this on Windows. I can copy it to whichever appropriate browser, or simply dismiss it. I have my terrible source code somewhere on the Internet, but it should take less than couple femtoseconds for any HN readers to write their own, I suppose. I recommend everyone do this.
The proposal is for operator =>

I think it’s not an April Fool’s joke, but this looks awfully confusable with >=.
> The companies that buy up sites like Bandcamp are interested in nothing except ensuring the executives’ pockets get lined appropriately.

What about the people who sell sites like Bandcamp? It seems to me they want their pockets lined as well.

To me it points to something fundamentally unsustainable. If cycle of “people who love music/support the artists” create sites/publications/etc. and then invariably sell out to some larger corporate body who dilutes or destroys the operation - what is going wrong?