skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Will take a look thank you!
I think "GPTs" is peak bitter lesson
You think that because you’re paying they won’t spy on you?

See smart TVs
Not an app, but... it smacks of this:
(has it been 9 years already? damn)

https://www.forbes.com/sites/amitchowdhry/2014/10/15/u2-says...
Oooh, I would _absolutely_ buy one of these to tow with. (looks like that diesel has _enough_ torque for my needs.)

It's become almost impossible to find a cheap pickup truck in the US. Even older USED trucks are commanding $30K these days.

If they could fit this out to pass safety regs in North America and keep the price under $20K, it would be a license to print money.
Is there any way to add unlisted games? This looks like a simple spreadsheet type thing, unless I'm missing some key detail.

I assume each game's scorecard is stored as json somewhere, or is a javascript object with the rows being preset icons/strings. Looks very useful.
FWIW I didn't down vote or flag your reply, I don't think anybody should have.
Not gonna lie, this thing looks pretty hot. With a lift and overlanding gear, this looks like it could be a fun rig. (I have no real overlanding experience, only wanderlust.)
YouTube's TikTok Clone
OpenAI CEO Demos How Its GPTs Can Eliminate Mark Zuckerberg's K-12 CS Teaching Position

https://slashdot.org/submission/17304520/openai-demos-how-it...
>If the residents don’t want the changes, where does one derive the (moral) authority to override their desires?

This really. My mid sized city has had an influx of covid restriction refugees and it's just too many people. Traffic is awful, everything is super crowded all the time. Inflation is out of wack and higher than other places. People really need to consider both sides of the coin.
Ask HN: What do you use for multi-user ChatGPT?
I'm looking to work with some friends on a coding project and instead of each of us working with our own gated off ChatGPT and then having meetings to share progress, cool prompts, etc I thought it would be easier to just have everyone in one big chat talking about the project and bringing in GPT for ideas and code generation when needed.

Has anyone used something like this? Can you do this with Slack? How do people collaborate with GPT - is it just everyone using their own ChatGPT and then talking about it in meetings and on slack?
I’m sure you can’t. The sovereign nation I live under has laws and the ability to enforce them that protect my property. If you tried to take my house then I’d have a tort against you. The nation would find in my favor and imprison you. My home would remain my property.
I don't think buying a new Macbook (or any computer) sooner than after 5-7 years of use is pretty meaningless for most cases.

But going for a 2017 one is simply strange considering the differences in all areas. I switched from 2019 Pro to M2 Air and it's simply wonderfull. It's twiceas powerfull and completely silent and cold.

2019s Pro was good, but it's not nearly as fast for photo editing and hot as hell even if you just code in nvim.
also known as copilot on windows and M365
Emotions aren't random; they have a purpose. They're our internal compass, guiding us through life's ever-changing landscape. Whether to alert us to danger, as fear does, or to steer us towards beneficial actions, emotions are pivotal to our survival and well-being.
> As a Brit it is utterly bizarre and alien to me.

I’m really surprised you say that. 90% of the jobs I look at for ‘software developer’ do not state salary. I have seen a couple with a ‘salary range’ but most don’t mention it or say “dependent on experience”.

I’ve been working in software for 15 years now in the UK and that’s always been my experience. Even though it’s standard, I still don’t see it as normal that such a vital piece of information is always missing.
>The comments here are like they're generated by an LLM. "Google cancel project. One more to the dead google project lol"

I understand why people post such low effort trash: "make number bigger". What I don't quite understand is why people upvote the same dorky joke they've seen others post a million times. It's baffling to me.
Not parent, but simply because I don't have the income needed to pack up and get out. No savings, no remote job. Clawing your way up from a start at $8.40/hr takes a long damn time just to reach self-sufficiency, let alone moving across the globe.
Yes, you are correct. Maybe I should have said there is more certainty about the future of Regus. I am not even sure of that.

I do agree, a lot of the media is saying this is a tactical move to re-negotiate a lot of expensive leases and they plan to get out of chapter 11 when they do.
Show HN: Affordable business email based on data instead of users
We've made some major improvements based on your suggestions and would love to hear your thoughts.
This doesn't weigh enough at all.

1 - Like someone else said, don't send a cop for that job.

2 - Even taking the scenario as given, the two harms being weighed are widly imbalanced. The harm from having a personal moment made public does not REMOTELY compare to any example of police abuse.

One can concoct scenarios for anything, and it's even true that all kinds of special scenarios do happen in reality. But the numbers and the harms are not all equal.
Yeah, gotta consider multi-modal interactions... and also there's no good way to pre-validate ownership of a phone number.

So suppose Carol clicks "Contact Me Immediately Please" on a website and and enters her phone number... But--oops--there's a typo. Now Alice is going to get an "unsolicited" message even though literally everybody involved is operating in good faith.

Even if someone is maliciously pretending to be Alice, neither the website nor the phone-carrier has a better malice-detecting tool than simply sending it and seeing if the recipient replies "STOP".
On a larger scale, people want more housing, vote for it, and vote for politicians that pass appropriate legislation. On a local level most people don't want it next to them, although they don't actually own the land in question. Developers that do own the land would love to build more housing but are opposed by their neighbors. How do we reconcile the different interests? Whose goals are considered "democracy" here?
Usually not. AFAIK no special security risks or regulatory requirements/penalties like for the other data.
I tend to agree.

But it's pretty difficult to prove any of this, because you don't know what would have happened if there wasn't a merger.
Can I contribute games I'd like to add? Or maybe run a local version customized for the games my group plays?
Why can't it apply to a constitution? Actual government is in the minds and actions of the people; it is not some "you are never allowed to skip a step" mathematical proof that gets printed in a research journal. There are nations with constitutions which are not merely unprinted, but unwritten. And plenty of nations (the U.S. included) which simply ignore clearly-printed parts of their own constitutions, when they find it convenient to do so.
It sounds like what you have found out is that not all Apple hardware is worth the hype.

Personally, I have the beats fit pro. While still owned by apple and benefiting from the same chip integrations, these have held up just fine for me for a few years now of daily use.
The rule of law is might makes right. Who makes the law? Who enforces it?
I believe that this has been your experience - I can only offer my own as another data point.

I've done the "two competing offers" thing four or five times at companies big and small. I've never had a company rescind an offer or ghost. In fact they all seem to expect a competing offer; all have asked "Are you interviewing anywhere else?" at some point.

I agree with discussing a minimum early on in the interview process. It's a good smoke test to ensure neither party's time is being wasted.
In San Jose, they tore down a bunch of restaurants, razed a bunch of houses that people were living in to build more office buildings, then decided "nah" and stopped building the office buildings. So now we have a bunch of land that the city gave to Google for cheap that they're just sitting on, that can't be used to build houses again. The LendLease houses were an integral part of why city council approved the plan.

https://www.cnbc.com/2023/04/21/googles-80-acre-san-jose-meg...
> We didn't say "never again" after millions of people died in world wars.

We did, that's why the League of Nations, the UN and the EU were created.

I'm not saying we're doing an incredibly good job, but at least some people are trying.
Air Force Asks Congress to Protect Its Nuclear Launch Sites from Wind Turbines
Adverse inference for spoliation of evidence is already a thing in law, and is separate from penalties for the destruction of evidence.
we didn't build enough housing during zero interest rates, why do you think we'll make up the deficit with higher interest rates?
I'm not sure it's so simple. There's a strong case to be made that Alameda was losing money as FTX's liquidity provider and without the alameda money FTX would have much, much lower revenue. I think it's hard to look at just one side of the business because they were so intertwined.
Double the median salary is clearly a joke?

White collar pay has gotten totally out of hand.
Unfortunately, grouping people is the only way to enforce these laws in the US. You have to prove you were discriminated against because you are part of some protected group.
Cancer quote is Balmer in 2001. That same year Miguel started Mono. But he did other things that held back the FOSS movement like support Microsoft for OOXML.

"Advocacy of Microsoft open technologies edit

De Icaza endorsed Microsoft's Office Open XML (OOXML) document standard,[15][16][17] disagreeing with a lot of the widespread criticism in the open source and free-software community.

He also developed Mono – a free and open-source alternative to Microsoft's .NET Framework – for GNOME.[18] This has raised much disagreement due to the patents that Microsoft holds on the .NET Framework.

De Icaza was criticized by Richard Stallman on the Software Freedom Day 2009, who labeled him as "Traitor to the Free Software Community".[19] Icaza responded on his blog to Stallman with the remark that he believes in a "world of possibility" and that he is open for discussions on ways to improve the pool of open source and free software.[20]"

Complicated man. I wouldn't want his legacy.
Could there be value in cultural diversity analogous to value of biodiversity?

I think of Andrian Berry’s warnings about a world state. I fear a world monoculture is one step in that direction. (Just googled him, seems time has been unkind to his books and reputation. Still, his Next 10,000 Years was so inspiring to me, not so much for the specifics but for the vision and the first-principles thinking around how we may get stuck.)
Portugal the Man, Band Website
Seems kinda like "kids eat free" at restaurants... fake-spotters eat free at eBay.
Sorry to bring you the bad news, but your lifetime is (likely) finite and each brush stroke takes away a bit of that precious finite time.

In contrast, while digitally reproduced crap is also fundamentally finite, it can be replicated gazillion upon gazillion times more without any effort or sacrifice.

This is the so-called zero-marginal cost of (re)production [1]. Some people think its a blessing, some people think its a curse.

With AI algorithms it gets even worse. You don't only have infinite copies of the original, you also have infinite variations of the original.

Interesting times.

[1] https://books.google.nl/books/about/The_Zero_Marginal_Cost_S...
Prompt: Tell me you’ve never read Brave New World without telling me you’ve never read Brave New World.
There's a "Proffesor Synapse" prompt that has been floating around for awhile, people share it and seem to find it useful. So there's some market proof that people appreciate and will gravitate towards popular prompts.
How did they lock the file when re-uploading it after edits?
It's baiting all the way down. A proc family iterates; the meaning of a digit change is debated; the bicycle-for-a-mind's bell tolls.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Turtles_all_the_way_down

https://www.themarginalian.org/2011/12/21/steve-jobs-bicycle...
Thanks; and I'm totally with you. Most informational topics (except perhaps obviously mechanical topics - e.g. changing an inner tube on a bike) are by far better dealt with in written/pictoral form. Funny you mention boomers - I remember my Dad, many years ago, complaining vociferously about how much TV documentaries were padded out with extraneous content versus those on radio. What goes around, etc. :)

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Even more of a tangent, but regarding the march of videos on the internet, I have been surprised by how much I've enjoyed (and even derived value from) TikTok, which I would have expected be the worst of the worst. But thanks to its nature, it's both far more efficient at enabling discovery, and almost always far more concise, than Youtube. And oddly, TikTok has done a lot to drive off-internet pastimes, thanks to discovery of new books to read, recipes to shop for and cook, films to watch, exercise routines to try, etc. It's so weird so write this, but I find (my little slice of?) TikTok unbelievably wholesome.
It's not just theft, it can make DB management much easier.

For example, since our sensitive DB fields are encrypted, relevant developers can get full read only access to the DB for debugging/analysis purposes without needing to worry about leaked PII. Similarly, we can log all of our DB queries, including fields, because the sensitive fields are encrypted.

This has huge operational benefits, and for compliance reasons is usually the best way to solve this problem. You can do things like limit access to columns by DB roles, but that is much more fraught, and it doesn't give you the logging benefits.
Wow, smaller fifth wheel capable.
That Huberman Lab episode had a similar effect on me. I've barely touched alcohol since.

Link for anyone who is interested: https://www.hubermanlab.com/episode/what-alcohol-does-to-you...
Probably observer's bias, but I've never seen a recovery plan work like it's supposed to.
> Those who more or less think copyright shouldn't exist in any case

I still believe a little bit in Jefferson's vision. It's just that that has so little to do with copyright that we're probably not even talking about the same thing. He envisioned copyright as being an incentive to create and do new things, to learn new things.

And here, as it would be used, it would shut down new technologies and quash new ideas. Clearly, such people are doing copyright wrong. I am not religious, I do not believe in "sin", but if that word did have any real use, it might be strong enough to describe those who would misuse copyright.

In any event, Jefferson was granting a very limited privilege and not describing a fundamental human right. This privilege was granted by the people, and the people do have the right to revoke that privilege if it continues to be misused. This, I think, is all the warning the misusers deserve. A comment that will be read by hardly anyone, that they will surely never see, and which will give them no headsup at all.
The same place one derives the (moral) authority to override any tyranny of the majority.
Or you could do chaos engineering: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaos_engineering
Mountain View is already a Google company town.
How it looks, basically. It's an anthropomorphized Amazon Echo.
The residents who own property exert a far greater say on policy than those who don't, which is more a plutocracy than a democracy.
I would like to buy whoever did this a drink.
Yet apologists proclaim it's a good thing: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38125771
I'll never be able to comprehend the idea of "Oh those many oblong glowing things in the background that are easy to miss? They're all galaxies of their own."

The Perseus cluster contains thousands of galaxies. Every little thing in that photo is incomprehensibly large.
hello, man from the other side of the divide! i grew up in a socialist country, so i find socialist activism frightful and dangerous, so yes, i think that they are activists for something bad, in general, though not necessarily specifically. (not having grown up in america, i don't share the same divide lines as you people do)

i'm not personally willing to engage in political subjects in my escapist media, and i generally don't. this is the part where you said "you're perfectly entitled", that's good that we agree on this. the rest of my op comment is my personal analysis of the nature of this new publication, which i thought was factual, because it's a collection of facts that i extracted out of this announcement, which i then used to make my decision about the publication. i've preemptively filed it in into a "do not click" category in my brain.
At least it's better than the scale used by many outlets to rate wine, where 80/100 is for wines they consider undrinkable, and 91/100 is a pretty good mid-level wine.
This doesn't account for homeowners that regularly report fake accidents on their streets to prevent Waze from directing traffic through their neighbourhood.
You write in a tone of contradiction, but I'm having trouble understanding how your points relate to mine. I don't believe I said that never-profitable businesses were unique to this era, or that the only business failures lately have been ridiculous ones.

I also think Amazon is distinct in that they chose to not have profits because they saw better uses for the money. Bezos could have declared big profits long before he did, and there was a noisy contingent of investors who were agitating for it. Bezos instead chose long-term investment in ways that upended our notion of commerce, and whose effects are still playing out.

I think that's very different than WeWork and Uber, where a lot of investor money was burned on subsidizing the core business. At least in Uber's case there was a theory, which was basically, "Use the rise of mobile to capture the global taxi market (while externalizing the capital costs to the desperate) and then use pricing power to extract Google-size monopoly rents." Maybe not a great theory, but at least something articulable. Whereas WeWork never made any sense as a business beyond a hazy "Uber for offices" handwave.
Did prices go up adjusted for inflation? I don’t think they did.

The original iPhone plan didn’t even have unlimited minutes (450 + 5000 night and weekend) and only came with 200 texts, for $60 in 2008 dollars ($90 today).

The current T-Mobile “essentials” plan is $60 with no taxes/fees besides sales tax, and it comes with unlimited voice/text with 50GB of data before throttling.

I don’t have a history of every single plan ever, but I don’t think T-Mobile ever offered an “unlimited everything” plan for less than $50 or so, pre or post-merger.

If you include T-Mobile subsidies like Mint Mobile, there’s an argument to be made that prices have dropped dramatically.

The other truth is that Sprint was always cheaper because it was by far the least reliable and desirable carrier. Sprint had the lowest prices and the lowest nationwide subscriber count because their product was inferior.

Instead of two great carriers (AT&T/Verizon), one okay carrier (T-Mobile), and one god-awful carrier (Sprint), now we have three great carriers where you are likely to be able to reliably choose any three regardless of where you live. That wasn’t really the case pre-merger.

And of course, there’s a great argument for the fact that Sprint would have probably gone bankrupt and been liquidated without its merger.
> just discard the previous one, create a new one however you want

I want to create it by re-using the memory of the previous one that I've just discarded, please (well, the one that will end up discarded, actually: it has to live until the map ends executing, hasn't it). Unfortunately, most of the languages' implementations/runtimes don't employ the Perceus algorithm.
A maximum on the band already existed, you just didn't know what it was.
I've seen this happen in these conversations too; a solution gets proposed, it gets bypassed, another solution gets proposed that manages to block the specific prompt, it gets bypassed, another solution gets proposed, and so on. And the eventual claim ends up being, "well, it's not easy but it's clearly possible", even though nothing has actually been demonstrated that shows that it is possible.

To try and shortcut around that whole conversation, let me ask you more directly: are you confident that the prompt you propose here will block literally 100% of attacks? If you think it will, then great, let's test it and see if it's robust. But if you're not confident in that claim, then it's not a working example. Because if 100 people try to use prompt injection to hack your email agent and 1 of them gets through, then you just got hacked. It doesn't matter how many failed.

99% is good enough for something like content moderation. It's not good enough for security.

Chained LLMs are a probabilistic defense. They work well if you need to stop somebody from swearing, because it doesn't matter if 1/100 people manage to get an LLM to swear. They do not work well if you're using an LLM in a security-conscious environment, and that is what severely limits how LLM agents can be used with sensitive APIs.

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To head off another potential argument here that I typically see raised, saying "no application is completely secure, everyone has security breaches occasionally" changes nothing about the fundamental difference between probabilistic security and provable security. Applications occasionally have holes that are accessed using novel attacks, but it is possible to secure an interface in such a way that 100% of known attacks will not affect it. At that point, any security holes that remain will be the result of human error or oversight, they won't be inherent to the technology being used.

It is not possible to secure an LLM in that way (at least, no one has demonstrated that it is possible[0]). You're not being asked here to demonstrate that a second LLM can filter some attacks, you're being asked to demonstrate that a second LLM can filter all attacks. So even a theoretically robust filter that filters 99% of attacks is not proof of anything. We're not trying to moderate a Twitch chat, we're trying to secure internal APIs.

Unless you're confident that the prompt you just offered will block literally 100% of malicious prompts, you haven't proven anything. "Hard to break" is insufficient.

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[0]: I'm exaggerating a little here, Simon has actually written about how to secure an LLM agent (https://simonwillison.net/2023/Apr/25/dual-llm-pattern/), and the proposal seems basically sound to me and I think it would work. But the sandboxing is just very limiting/cumbersome and that proposal is generally not the answer that people want to hear when they ask about LLM security.
Also curious. I don't see anything like that listed on the Ballotpedia page [0].

[0] - https://ballotpedia.org/Maine_2023_ballot_measures
No problem about that. But they should never complain about homelessness and congestion after voting against the solutions.
covid restriction refugees

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Anthropomorphizing in this way (sacrificing all accuracy for the sake of a nice, bite size analogy) immediately removes credibility of the article. Me writing a science article on solar power and I open with "The sun is just a large flashlight" makes me look like an idiot, even if the rest of the article is good. What's worse is that most people would rightly discredit the flashlight analogy, because most of us are quite familiar with the sun and how it works. But most people are not familiar enough with machine learning and how it works to similarly discredit this article, so they might BELIEVE it, which is a huge issue.
Are you comparing losing homes to losing access to some social media app?