skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Actually the GDPR "just" requires to protect the data against "reasonably likely" attacks.

«
To determine whether a natural person is identifiable, account should be taken of all the means reasonably likely to be used, such as singling out, either by the controller or by another person to identify the natural person directly or indirectly.

To ascertain whether means are reasonably likely to be used to identify the natural person, account should be taken of all objective factors, such as the costs of and the amount of time required for identification, taking into consideration the available technology at the time of the processing and technological developments.
»

https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/r26.htm
Did someone say anti-trust?

As you said, it's only natural for a company to abuse a monopoly in one area to boost them in other areas, that's why these companies have to broken up to keep competition healthy in the other areas.
That's one interpretation. It might also be that having a "normal" life with pets, vacations and cupcakes is sufficiently difficult for regular people today that instagramming about it is elite enough.
Op wrote "uploading a dataset and having it play with it.", not that they would use it locally.
In the US, it's common for a woman to wear both the engagement ring and wedding ring after the wedding, they are often sold as a set.

Although one tip I'd give to anyone getting married, get a pair of $18 rings for travel and what not. If one slips off while swimming in the ocean, it's ok.
That’s the age that Jesus Christ died
But I’m not typing in Cyrilic.
i would imagine the most powerful democracy in the world would have a better approach to structuring the reserves than "storing them in a chaotic manner"?
To proponents of large monorepos/monoliths at larger orgs (say 100+ developers):

What is your build time? How long to go from PR to deployed?

In my experience, this is usually _hours_ at least. In my microservice shop at my previous org, full end to end regression tests included, meant code was in production in 10-20 minutes.
of course, pocket change, probably driven by lunatic sentiments from the centuries past.
"I think watches can be a bit different... At least expensive watches retain more of their value, or even go way up in the case of Rolex."

Buying old Rolex watches is cult activity a bit like buying Elvis's shoes or such at auction for many thousands of dollars—although the latter is likely rarer and ultimately might be of historical interest in centuries to come. Same goes for other engineered products such as old Leicaflex cameras that have sold for hundreds of thousands of dollars when equally engineered high quality products from the same era are simply junked as these days they are perceived to have no value.

It mystifies me why people are so enamored with this stuff. There's nothing special about an old Rolex except they were likely near the best of breed when manufactured, but they have little intrinsic historical value nowadays in that they were very unlikely to contain new technology that altered the course of mechanical engineering at the time they were made. They have never had the historical or technical importance of Harrison's remarkable chronometers which did alter the course of history.

Let me illustrate with an example: I own two of the first cavity magnetron developed during WWII that went into production and is credited with giving the Allies a huge technological advantage over the Axis Powers. Moreover, they are band new in their original cartons and in better condition than the one in this display model: https://www.theiet.org/membership/library-archives/the-iet-a.... (Background info: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260521102_The_Cavit...)

This is truly an historical device that altered history and changed technology—it made centimeter RADAR possible when desperately needed in WWII and it's the forerunner of the device in every microwave oven around the world—yet they're not worth a pinch of shit when compared with an old Rolex—even though there are precious few used ones still in existence (let alone brand new ones in original packaging).

Seems to me, like diamonds, the outrageous values of an old Rolex come from cleaver marketing to the gullible and to those with more money than sense.

Edit: years ago I bought a fake Rolex in Bangkok for about $20 as a joke, it actually kept reasonably good time and looked reasonably genuine—at least it did from a few feet away.
They are the result of a capitalistic environment that systematically dismantled all rules and regulations to prevent monopoly and oligopolies from happening in the first place
Four important things worth nothing:

1) Weight gains comes from too many kcals consumed and not enough burned.

2) Weight loss comes from burning more kcals than consumed.

3) That is, burned kcals is half of the equation. What's consumed is the other half. Put another way, as those who exercise know: You can't out-train a bad diet.

4) Burning kcals isn't the only benefit of exercise. There are cardiovascular benefits. There benefits to the brain.

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All that noted, this is *not* exercise in pill form. It appears, at least in the short term, a weight loss aid. But that won't last if kcals consumption increases to the point it "outruns" (so to speak) the pills capabilities.

It's also worth noting that drugs for reducing cholesterol ended up having long term unintended consequences. We'll see what happens with these weight treatments.
Ask HN: LLM to API
Hi folks, I've been digesting the recent OpenAI updates, but fail to find an easy way to integrate LLMs with an API, such as:

Imagine I have an API that can create, delete, update customers, how do I use an LLM to use those APIs to offer users an interface to give those commands to the prompt and execute those actions?

Is there companies that are more focused in this space?

I hope that soon enough we'll rarely need to build interfaces, just give people a chat.
I made a post asking something about Django and the creator of Django showed up and answered. The fact that's possible here when Django is a massive framework adopted by millions is such a great signal - the density of expertise on Hacker News is just remarkable.
>> it's actually crazy we figured out how to grow real diamonds that are cheaper and better quality than the real thing and so many people are still like, no thanks the suffering is what makes it special.

https://twitter.com/missmayn/status/1612892354624786444
They talk (rightly) about mathematics replacing infinitely small but not 0 numbers with limits there. Infinitesimals were later reintroduced with rigor through https://mathworld.wolfram.com/NonstandardAnalysis.html

I have long thought such would be easier to work with on modern computers.
So Google is doing his why exactly? Since they know everything about everyone they now shut out the competition while sending all the IPs to their own proxy that will log them for themselves "for your privacy TM"???

I mean I would like this if it would not come from Google.
"Too big" could mean the pads on the circuit board were made for a smaller component, and now with the larger one, there's less overlap and direct contact from the pads on the board and the contacts on the component.
I've found it's not necessarily "hard", but the strategies that worked in school don't work after graduating. At school friendships just kinda happen - afterwards, you need to work at it. I struggled for a while, in my first two years after uni and leading up to Covid. What helped me was:

* Joining a very social team in a very social company. This was in 2019, and even though they went bankrupt and we all found other jobs, a few of us still hang out regularly.

* D&D. I'd played a bit at Uni, and once lockdowns subsided I convinced my girlfriend to come along to a local club with me. Now we're both running full-blown campaigns!

* Volunteering. I joined a local food-aid group, and it's been fantastic to have something with a bit more meaning behind it.

Once you've got a few good friends, it becomes a lot easier to make others.
I personally do not own Google shares directly, it’s mostly ETFs. I do not care much about Google and would rather prefer the portfolio to be diverse enough, meaning that there’s enough competition on the market and enough other companies worth investing. We do not need monopolies to prosper, because they reduce the size of the pie. Any fan of free market would agree with me, because when competition does not exist, free market does not exist.
This somehow breaks text selection for me (just selects all text). Here are some useful bookmarklets including a working one to enable right-click and text selection: https://github.com/alanhogan/bookmarklets
Ah, thanks, that is indeed an aspect I was not aware of. From my point of view, it doesn't change much about the cost-value-ratio though.
> Homeopathy is paid for by the German public health system.

It's worth noting that "anthroposophic medicine" (not just homeopathy) while paid for by the German public health care system is explicitly treated differently than actual medicine. There's a lot of "alternative medicine" treatments that are covered by German public health insurance but they're explicitly considered "treatments" not "cures". This entails a different standard of evidence: anthroposophic "medicine" only needs to demonstrate an absence of harm whereas actual medicine needs to empirically demonstrate a balance of positive effects and negative side-effects. Anthroposophic "medicine" sometimes cites studies involving self-reported effects but the health claims are strictly controlled, you can't e.g. claim your sugar pills cure cancer just because there's a bogus self-report study indicating cancer patients felt better with it.

I'm not defending the coverage of "alternative medicine" by health insurance. Customers should be able to easily understand whether the product the pharmacy is selling them is an actual medical drug or just an expensive filler or a "natural remedy" with no demonstrated health effects - and ideally the latter shouldn't be sold in pharmacies (or at all) to begin with and certainly not with (implied) health claims.

But thanks to German consumer protection laws there is a line for what claims you can get away with and which ones will get you sued. It's not as tight as I'd like it, but it's there and it has an effect, unlike homeopathy. In other words: while "quantum radiation removal" is hard to even evaluate as a claim as it's entirely made up woo, selling "quantum radiation remover stickers to prevent cancer and AIDS" (or selling stickers that are unsafe and will cause cancer if used as intended) crosses an important line turning the latter illegal in Germany.
Any AOT compiled language will do, but only Rust will give extra hacker credo points.
If when I started learning about calculus at 14/15 someone had explained why we were doing this it would have made it so much less confusing. Explaining in terms of speed/distance/acceleration seems to make complete sense now (one of several potential examples). However discussing a function and talking about splitting in into small (infinitesimal) strips of delta quantities and a list of equations / proofs made it completely dry and uninteresting. I don't think I had any ideas one what was going on until it was mentioned in physics several years later.
Over-dosing vodka by a factor of 10 will likely be scary for your family in the hospital. Same goes for nutmeg.

Part of the danger of a substance is how much distance there is between the substance doing something intended and something unintended by taking a higher dose.

Part of the problem of the opiod endemic in the US is that fentanyl is so potent that due to fluctuations in the incompetent black market on it, and/or due to incompetence by its users, things can turn deadly quickly.

The other thing is how long it takes for you to notice the effects of a substance. If you get a quick result it's far less dangerous to overdose, as you'll notice when it's enough.
100/e is close to 37, regardless of base.

(That 100 would be chosen as a convenient scaling factor for our notion of “percent” only in base 10 is true, but a separate point.)
B-21 RAIDER FIRST FLIGHT 2023-11-10
Just a note, run them trough https://alanhogan.github.io/bookmarkleter/ before creating the bookmark
> I don't think it's good for Google, I don't think it's good for the consumer, I don't think it's good for the country, and it's most certainly not good for us.

"it's good for the country"? How much do you need to have taken off until you say (and believe) such things?
There should probably be some legislative pressure to separate service providers and advertisers. Most of the problems of the modern web can be traced back to how well-integrated the advertising is into big corporations' widely used services.
I got my kid a tablet and reckoned the iPad mini was a better choice, and I wanted to call him, read books and play games with him remotely, and the highest recommended app for this (Caribu) worked best on iOS.

I don't really recommend Caribu (now owned by Mattel and the lack of love put into it is showing) but I don't know anything better.

A bug that bites every other day: a request for more screen time comes in (parental controls) while the iPad was last in landscape, and I unlock it in portrait. Messages comes up after I press the alert to approve it, but the messages UI is stuck half way between landscape and portrait, and the message that requires approval is off the bottom of the screen and can't be scrolled back. Rotating the iPad doesn't help. I have to quit Messages and restart it, sometimes a couple of times.

Another thing that creeps me out every time I do it: I download a free app and somewhere along the line I have to press a Buy button, or there is some "Processing payment" notification, that makes me think I was duped.

And I have a generalized gripe about the stores - there are like 3 different store apps on a new ipad, really confusing. Even worse, as an English speaker living in Switzerland (3 major official languages) some stores, like the Apple store, default to German with no configuration possible, and while the App store only shows app reviews written in Switzerland, so I basically see no English reviews for any apps. I can't opt in to seeing UK or US reviews.

Funny you should mention smoothness. After I got my ipad, I immediately regretted not getting the pro because 60Hz animation is quite flickery on a big screen.

Outside video calls I only use the iPad for watching tv shows. It's kind of a redundant device for my lifestyle.
I think you can detect either all infinite loops or only infinite loops, but there are many loops which might or might not be infinite under any possible test?

So you could refuse to run any code with a loop whose termination isn't easily proven to be guaranteed[0], without violating the halting problem.

[0] And, in practice, terminating quickly. I doubt they want people to start mining bitcoin on all of those expensive H100s.
Your comment is based on the premises that Meta/Google... are there to help you shop/find the best result once you've made your mind. For that purpose, an optimised search engine is indeed very useful.

But I don't think that's why intent profiling exists. What if, instead of helping you find quickly what you are looking for, they forced you through a less perfect system that, while leading you to your result, suggests you other, somewhat similar articles... Maybe you'll buy more? That incentivises ads and thus increases profits for the AdTech.
You have to have a pretty helpless attitude to blame someone else (teachers) on your inability to learn from a good textbook.

How are you ever going to learn anything truly novel in the world if you always delegate teaching to a teacher?
Android -- a cost center. No viable business model. Maybe Samsung would fork AOSP for their phones.

Cloud -- has to run at a loss in the immediate future to capture marketshare

Email -- nobody pays for email. Get ready for a much smaller mailbox and ads targeted by email contents. Get "sponsored" emails in your feed.

YouTube -- was a separate company before

Maps -- will become a free tourist map, may have to pay to unlock any zone except your home.

Search -- if it can sell ads independently, could be a viable business.

Advertising -- all the other units need advertising to survive. This could be a clearinghouse

In short, not clear that the pieces make sense as independent businesses with some exceptions.
For the precise reason, I would never put LLMs in my product (if I have one) be it financial (tell me what two products are doing good together in winter seasons near XYZ location) or even user facing (how can I turn off photo sharing so that only I see what I take with my camera) or something similar as trusting LLMs might lead to serious troubles if the output is wrong.

Just dry run through the scenarios and assume LLM's output is wrong even if 10% of the time.
Today, I updated the CSS stylesheet for our product and fixed a previous styling bug.
Just saying, I’m not talking about idealized free markets, but specifically what we have right now.

Your ETFs rely on the companies in the basket doing what Google does.
But you're using the same component framework regardless of whether you use React or not: it's the same underlying elements that you decide between, and the same process of configuring then correctly to be accessible.
Physics doing the work of actually teaching math is a universal embarrassment to math departments. Or, well, it should be.
I feel loneliest in a crowd. I have my wife and kids. And I talk to a couple of multi-year friends a couple of times a month. I have little opportunity to have chance encounters with the same people to begin forming friendships - I practically don't go anywhere due to family obligations and work. Best option would be church but I feel like a charlatan there as I'm not a religious believer.
But what about the arithmetic, geometric or harmonic mean?
Writing CSS in 2023: Is It Any Different Than a Few Years Ago?
Nicely written. But isn't a corollary that we should stop exams in Maths (and Physics/etc/etc) degrees and just teach people who want to learn, how much they want to learn?

Exams are for people designing bridges and doing surgery. Basic science just learn and start doing some to see if it is for you.
In the description of videos I see a "Show Transcript" button. I believe this is automatically generated. It's not grouped into sentences though, so there is room for improvement.
Well, you did spend 1.5 thousands of dollars...
I know people who buy a car for that price
It is kind of crazy. Websites allow themselves to be indexed, to become content to display ads above. What if Google just showed ads? Then it would be like the traditional yellow pages. Of course, it is not in Google's interest, but I think it is in the interest of websites everywhere. There should be some licensing schemes which state under what terms your website can be indexed. Think creative commons, but with categories such as "can be indexed for ad-driven search pages", "can be indexed for for-pay search pages" and so on. I think something like this is needed to wrestle control from Google.
As a consumer, I don't care about where or who I get my results from.

If I search for "NYC to LAX Monday", I don't care if I have to click through to a shady website with lots of SEO experts who will probably miss the "Monday" part of my query anyway, I'd rather get a nice list of flights right in my search results. I don't care if those are provided by Google, a third-party website that Google scrapes, somebody Google signs a deal with or somebody who implements a Google-provided API for this and is good at SEO, as a consumer, I care about flying, not clicking links. Forcing Google to hide the flights UI and link me to Expedia is a worse experience for me. Same applies to News, Shopping, facts, answers etc.

If the Google results ever get really bad or way too expensive, most people will switch search engines (or switch search engines for a single use-case), like searching for products on Amazon instead of Google or searching for flights directly on Expedia. So far, Google results are getting worse but results from other (free) search engines aren't that much better, so other people stay with Google and there is that.
she already has 3 doctors who could have done all these things, I don't even know what to test for, I just know my own experience.

Over the years I've been tested for a few things they've always come back negative though.
Ask HN: How did you set up usage-based billing?
For those who’ve built systems that need to charge by an ‘event’, like an API call, how did you meter usage and then bill customers?

How’s that system holding up today?
I believe you don't see the big picture.

What you just described is running on thousands of machines several times a day.
Previous discussions: https://hn.algolia.com/?query=diamondssuck
Yesterday a delivery guy asked me for directions and that interaction was my social high of the weekend. So yeah, I'm rather extremely lonely most of the time, but HN does not help me with that at all.
And inhospitable. Don't forget about that one.

I'm not one of the anti car people. But they make a good point. If you live in any sort of populated area that doesn't have a subway, every attempt to move any considerable distance is going to be unduly stressful.

The flip side is, if you live in a sparsely populated area, cars are a lifeline.

I understand why people want to at least get rid of architectures that create car dependence. Sometimes it's unavoidable, you live 30 miles from a grocery store. Other times it's unavoidable for a different reason, because your entire environment is paved over, and that really sucks.
I remember Fay Weldon taking some money for product placing Bulgari products in her novels. So it's a thing that some authors are happy to do.
> Or, my point in short: cut people some slack

That's what we are doing here! But in this case most people seems to be sympathetic to the people that suffered to get you and your wife a diamond? I don't think rich people with frivolous desires need any more "empathy"
> Pressbooks is an online book-publishing platform that makes educational resources free and accessible. Get started quickly by adapting an existing work and customizing it for your class.

This is very interesting. Also, this should be the reading experience on the web: simple, minimal, with controls (search, TOC, prev, next) hidden but not too far from reach.
From my perspective psilocybin and LSD are very good tools to get a new mindset, get rid of addictions, and to restructure your brain long term. LSD trips sure made me a better person.

Ketamine OTOH is something that can help me in a situational way. I only take it in concrete situations of social anxiety.

By the way - I order it "illegally", but my neuroligst agrees it's a good idea. Right now the situation in Germany is still very stupid, as doctors are only allowed to prescribe it if you go to the doctor every time you want to take a pump from the nose spray. Which obviously is not practical at all helps for situational use...

I'm a person how very easily gets addicted. Anecdotically, but also from what I have read, ketamine is not very addictive.

I am aware that a lot of effects that you can get through medication can also achieved using things like ecstatic dance or breathing techniques or medititations. I'm not patient enough for this, also I prefer to dance to Techno ;)