skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sometimes I wonder if Rust’s biggest draw is not that is is safe, but that is removed a lot of the BS hoops you have to jump through to get a working program on your computer.

I wonder if the Python alternatives will also get a similar boost for that reason. If maintaining the language and the ecosystem is that much of a bear, it would save a lot of human hours to do that. Even if we started back from scratch for a bit
The best answer to this is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab6GyR_5N6c :)
No thanks :) I’m extremely defensive of my information diet + attention allocation, and I know upfront that I don’t need to add a service like TikTok to the mix.

I’m not treating anyone’s experience as gospel in any case. There are no important decisions I’ll be making off this information.
Comparing Oregon and Portugal's approach to drug decriminalization
> as much as cyclists hate to hear it, they're the most reckless users of the road on average

Citation needed.
Short Course – Vector Databases: From Embeddings to Applications
What was the relationship between StumbleUpon and Omegle. I haven't used Omegle but used StumbleUpon and was one unique place where you could discover hidden gems in the longtail.
Lightning-fast and lightweight sounds great! What kinds of security measures are in place for the desktop app, especially with sandboxing?
> and what's more you can hit F5 and dismiss the entire thing, whereas a post still remains.

Which was no longer a thing, with many people using Omegle to create content and upload it to youtube. It became far less anonymous in some cases than an image/discussion board.
List of experts advising the EU on CSAM has been published
Photography Life's AI-Free Commitment
No, it's a dedicated email you can set up for any channel, it's usually something like "channelname-somerandomcharacters@example.slack.com". On the GMail side you'd just set it up to only forward things that have the subject line you want like "Rejected" etc.
Also here: https://netzpolitik.org/2023/geheime-liste-wie-der-sicherhei...

Source: https://www.theregister.com/2023/11/09/eu_casm_expert_identi...
Are you comfortable sharing your prompts? I still didn’t get mine quite where I want them..:
I quite liked jobs that I was qualified for. But then I became too qualified and too experienced.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯ yeah not sure if it’s a good type of thick, but it definitely ain’t thin.
The price (starting at $99) is a huge turn-off. I don't have that much money to spend at all; I don't have a job, for crying out loud. I'd rather sign a contract to give away the first $250 or so of my income. Hell, even make it $500. Just don't make me pre-pay for the chance to win a job - I cannot afford to gamble on this.
Well now you’ve invented Upwork Connects tokens which you buy in order to bid on contracts
Hey Victor, these are amazing tips. I am currently building a DSL for LLMs, and would love your feedback/consulting. I could not find your email online.

Please feel free to reply to this or reach me here:
@eating_entropy on X
joshcho@stanford.edu

Would love advisement from someone who has thought about DSLs extensively!
And they can also arrest or interrogate you without reading your encrypted message. There are plenty of ways to investigate crime that doesn't rely on breaking walls or encryption.
Why couldn't you do that directly with USD?
It is also pretty obvious that the lock was broken and it is impossible to break them en-masse, without anybody noticing. That's not true for the government-proposed regulation either.
You may need to provide a reason now when quitting OneDrive
> what are MOND and lambda-CDM?

MOND (Modified Newtonian Dynamics) is a minority (not mainstream) theory in physics, that maybe Newton's law of gravity doesn't work the same over galactic distances. After all, we have only tested the law in length scales smaller than our own solar system.

You also have to know, that the observed rotation speeds of galaxies do not fit with estimated amount of visible stars (and their mass) in the galaxy. We basically can not explain why galaxies rotate at the speeds they do.

MOND suggests that the shape of the gravity law changes, over very large distances.

The mainstream explanation is Dark Matter: Galaxies have more mass than we can see, and that makes them rotate differently that what their number and mass of stars would suggest.

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

Lambda-Cold-Dark-Matter: Lambda is the name of the cosmological constant, cold dark matter is about the simplest possible model for the unseen dark matter: It is cold (no fast moving particles, meaning no particles like photons that move at relativistic speeds), dark (we cannot see it), and it is matter (provides gravity).

This is the traditional, mainstream cosmological model in its simple form.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lambda-CDM_model
This is interesting feedback. I wonder if Amazon takes it back so they can resell to recyclers? Still, I struggle to think if this makes sense. Or maybe they are trying to discourage no-return scams.
There must be datasets of cyclist activity in London. BeeLine is a private company that develops a device for cyclists to orient themselves; I know they worked on cleaning up relevant data. Not sure if they would be keen to share with the author.
The something awful forums are still out there charging $10 to post in 2023, so…
If you want to waste 3 extra hours per application.
I've been on the internet since I was about 10 years old (I estimate). My parents knew (and understood) maybe 10% of what I did on there. As a minor, I did multiple criminal things online, some of them successful, others not so much. If I was a kid in 2023, I probably would've been arrested at some point in time.

Because of what I know about the internet and because I know what kids will do with unlimited access, I think much of this burden should be with the parents. For every successful Omegle taken down, 3 more unknown ones will pop up. But major platforms like TikTok are also massive sources of grooming and parents happily give their 10 year olds a smart phone.

As long as parents are never held accountable for their kids online behavior and the blame is put on service providers, this will only get worse. I know many examples of parents who track their kids' phones because they're scared something will happen to them in the real world. Meanwhile, these same parents pay no attention at all to where their kids venture in the online world, let alone with who. Parents need to be educated on this, fast.
Ah, I haven't come across this recording in some time - it's good to be reminded of it. The phrase is overused but given the rarity of hearing the man in anything other than full-tilt harangue, the recording really does represent the "banality of evil," comparatively speaking.

Put another way, it truly is strange (and a bit chilling, almost) to hear Hitler without mustache.
This page is utterly useless for me. I get copilot via an organization, so how can I do what the page title promises? Also, both links on the site link to the same page.
Group think is not the problem. Certainty is.

Dark matter arose because of gaps in the current particle theory. These gaps grow the further out we observe and become significant enough to disqualify gravity as a constant for the formation of galaxies. Dark matter provides an incomplete solution to these gaps just as dark energy is an incomplete stop gap to Einstein’s cosmological constant.

The logic is as follows:

* There are gaps in current models that otherwise invalidates math and disqualifies observed measures.

* Dark matter/energy provide a partial solution that may or may not exist but are sufficient to performed qualified measures across observed space.

* Therefore dark matter/energy provide utility value that for conducting measures that otherwise observationally contradict.

* Therefore dark matter/energy must be because they are qualified as such by the math.

This problem is syllogistic wherein a series of propositions are individually true and linked so therefore the conclusion of such linkage must be true, but it isn’t. In physics truths exist as proofs. The problem isn’t that dark matter exists or not, but that incomplete logic demands it must exist.

Again, it is a confidence problem, that it must exist and anything to the contrary should be censored to hell. People have staked their entire professional reputations on this confidence built on logic, not observation.

The actual physics problem that produces all this mess in the first place is observational limitation. Already the JWST is slowly peeling back some reliance on magic solutions allowing for alternate considerations and better math. Ultimately we will need to observe the universe from outside the solar system and it’s internal distortions.
Nice! As far as I understand, it uses RCU-like epochs, except that the reclaimed memory is immediately used for the new version of the data, bounding the memory usage at the cost of having the writer block. The oplog seems quite an additional complication, but I guess it makes sense for costly updates. The simplest solution is to just copy the last version over the stale version.

edit: note this is not just a map datastructure. As far as I understand, left_right can wrap any data structure.
I have a theory that the rich and powerful are more likely to be into more twisted and crazy gross shit because they can afford to have reached various boundaries of human experience, and if they've got that kind of money and power then they're also more likely to be driven to explore such boundaries.

Money and Power are the unpickable locks and impenetrable walls of the conversation above.
The Verge:

“Omegle gained a reputation as a breeding ground for sexual abuse of minors, leading to a prominent lawsuit “

Take any physical space that developed this reputation, it would also have been shut down by lawsuits.
> overburden developers

Please. Doing a perfunctory role does not equate to "overburden". I'll get grads from a third-world who will _happily_ take the burden off these developers if you so insist.

> I do think management often has no idea how many different specialties and expertise there are within engineering.

That is true. It is every one's responsibility to inform mgmt of this and keep open channel.
history doesn't repeat itself, but it often rhymes.
How many of those 20 interviews do you suppose were at great places where the person would enjoy working? They are evidently the places with the worst resume screening (or, alternatively, the most desperate hiring managers). Maybe there’s a reason they’ll interview anybody who tosses in a crappy AI-generated resume.
I speak from personal observation - not trying to write a research paper or an encyclopedia article here. I don't see any other road users engaging in those behaviours on a frequent basis.

As an example, it's extremely rare for cars in London to cut red lights, pedestrians sometimes do but they're much slower and therefore easier to see coming. The behaviour of switching back and forth from car/pedestrian rules is not something other road users do here. But cyclists do that extremely frequently, to the point that it seems hard data isn't necessary to form a reasonably certain (but not scientific) conclusion. If cars drove like cyclists, it would be complete chaos.

Do you disagree?
Transcript(s) : https://feldgrau.net/forum/viewtopic.php?t=13647

I have no affiliation and no idea of the reputation of this site.
I should have mentioned that I only ever was part of the review process for very junior positions (PhD candidates and interns), so all CVs are pretty much the same. So for most, a 10 secs glaze is enough, but whatever the quality of the CV I always feel compelled to read the cover letter with more care.
Here in Sweden, you can agree to let the delivery company just leave the package by the front door, but it's only common for low value things. Most things are delivered to your nearest post office counter (usually in your closest supermarket) and recently, to a locked postbox nearby which you unlock online with their app.
> Sad clown paradox is characterised by a cyclothymic temperament.

How do I parse this sentence?
Hasn't Apple been caught before saying "shot on iPhone" but really it was in a studio with a modified iPhone with a proper lens on it? https://www.dpreview.com/videos/7189460551/video-those-shot-... etc

Although for this one from the pictures I've seen it does seems like they used the phone + lighting equipment which is fine.

I think I'll still stick to my mirrorless + large & heavy but absolutely stellar lenses. I like getting actual raw footage from a sensor and not computational photography (which is only really good for out & about shots aka "the best camera you have is the one you have with you").
Apple II, DOS and PRODOS calls do that too.

https://prodos8.com/docs/techref/calls-to-the-mli/
Also turns out half of HN are not scientists either.
Leaving aside your guesses at the demographics and sociographics inside intelligence services: who do you think should do the job?
> That is true. It is every one's responsibility to inform mgmt of this and keep open channel.

And vice-versa (should of said).
tell them you are an agent representing [your name here]
"Everyone spies on everyone - so therefore its okay to do it"

"We will annihilate whistleblowers when they reveal uncomfortable secrets - because thats okay to do when it suits our national interest"

The whistleblowers have revealed that in fact, NO - nobody spies (violating
billions of human beings' rights) at the same grandiose and extensive scale as the criminal 5-eyes coalition currently operating the worlds biggest human rights violations (GCHQ, NSA, Pine Gap, etc.)
Not to pick on the original post, but one of my all-time biggest data pet peeves is map diagrams that aren't normalized by population/some kind of denominator. They all end up as slightly janky population maps with weird anomalies that only make sense if you know the true denominator anyway.

To your point, Kew Gardens and Richmond Park both show up with blank hexagons on the map. But Kew Gardens doesn't allow bike traffic while Richmond Park is full of bikes.

Side note: As someone who lives by Richmond Park and visits often, I wouldn't be surprised if there are more bike vs. deer accidents than bike vs. car accidents.
It is though. Take the example of the Books app on iOS. If you enable iCloud, it uploads third-party documents and books into its cloud - so far so good. If you discontinue iCloud (or even just disable the annoying upload-and-delete-local-copy for the Books app), every one of your books disappears, being held hostage by Apple. You literally have to then copy every single book that you bought elsewhere into the Books app again.
Although sometimes too much, I think the way fly.io starts their blog posts with a description of what they do is brilliant. I have no idea what Hoppscotch is and reading the first paragraphs I still don’t.
Read Peopleware. It’s more about finding teams that gel than individual high performers. Makes the task even more challenging, sadly.
The main function is to obscure whether a package has been left or not, since the master keys were available online before An Post starred selling the boxes. Some DPD drivers use them too.

Physically, they're about as secure as an Amazon cardboard box.
You missed the

> Yes there are of course exceptions

... part then?
If I were in your position I would start with people I know personally and I would define success criteria to hold them accountable against. I would evolve that success criteria as the mission evolves and use that as a frame of reference in hiring the next people. Prior experience in leadership and holding people accountable is required.
Show HN: SindreGPT
I did a clowning masterclass in France a few months ago. (That was a whole, wild experience that I’ll be haunted by for years). While I was there I realised I’ve been operating under a certain kind of dumb philosophy my whole life without realising it. The philosophy is something like this: “I believe if I’m “good” enough, nobody will reject me for being “bad” and people will like me.” And fill in whatever you want for good - be clever, say the right things, get a good mark on the test, remember everyone’s name, be competent, and so on.

When I was at clown school, I realised that philosophy is totally wrong. We don’t like people who are perfect. We like people for their flaws. At the heart of clowning is something called “the flop”. That is, when something doesn’t work and it’s seen to not work, instead of going down into shame, working with the flop is looking at the audience and acknowledging it. Everyone’s acknowledgement is different - but in that moment of failure we’re all deeply connected. And the clown being ok with it is catharsis for everyone.

I think the clowning philosophy is something like: “When I make mistakes, people connect with me the most. But it has to be real. I have to enter with a dream, and when it falls apart they love me when they see my eyes”. Or something like that. I think I can’t quite articulate it yet.

Anyway, of course there’s a set of clear psychological traits associated with comedians. It’s not because comedians are uniquely messed in the head. It’s because connecting to others through failure is different from connecting to others through success. They can both be used as coping strategies. And both can be used to bring out the best in us.

It was quite the slap in the face for me to realise my perfectionism meant I was doing everything all wrong on stage. I cried a lot. But there’s also something beautiful in it. In having new ways to show up. I like it.
Ask HN: Embeddings as "Semantic Hashes"
As I understand it, embeddings are semantic representations of input data, such as text or images, in a vector space that maps conceptual meaning to distances. However, this vector space is only meaningful to the model.

To draw an analogy, can we compare the model to a hashing algorithm and the embedding to the hash of the input data? If so, what is the equivalent of SHA256?

How can we make embeddings future-proof and exchangeable between independent parties?
You very well know Home Office won't go harder on the cases you mentioned, because of fear of backlash.
Completely agree, The buck stops with parents.

Meta should keep the filters and actively develop more filters that users want and enjoy.

It can also create resources for parents to better deal with the risks of social media, the two are not in conflict.
No it isn't. I can play lots of games on my machine. I can't play, specifically, Alan Wake 2, since it's unavailable for purchase either standalone or an a platform that supports Linux.

Of course it's their choice where to release it, but saying, specifically, that it doesn't affect any consumer is just plain wrong.
An alternative to reading the docs; you can ask questions about the problem you are facing, and an LLM (presumably trained on coding questions, and RAGged to the docs) will give you configurable answers.
Steve Wozniak hospitalized after fainting at an event in Mexico City
Interesting to hear a much stronger Austrian accent in his tonality compared to his public speech style.
I think AI copilots will allow more people to be productive in software and, by so doing, allow vastly more software to be created.

Related to that idea is that, with the right definition (unconventional but not tortured), I think that more software is created in Excel than in python today and a large swath of the people making spreadsheets today for their business will be using AI copilots to make better software 20 years from now.
> It's a heatmap of population density.

> Ah yes, the bustling residential hub of... Soho

Have you just confused having a lot of people with being a residential hub?

Hey if you ever feel that the world is really confusing and life is too much some times, I'm here for you.
That name is easy to confuse with the unrelated LoRa and LoRaWAN.
Super cool!

I'm curious if there is a quality argument to be made: imagine needing to finetune k different classifiers...

Before this work, we could train a single multi-label classifier by pooling the training sets, and deploy as 1 LoRa

Now, we can have k distinct classifiers, and not risk them interfering with one another

Any sense of, in realistic scenarios, when the quality of k distinct LoRas would be better?
So how do you actually use this? Or is it just a design/proposal?
There was a case in the U.K. where a man was arrested and charged for misgendering a trans person on the street. The very obvious (to me) next step would be facilitating surveillance to track when people commit similar hate crimes (like using the wrong pronouns) online.

We in North America forget that our friends across the pond have a very different relationship with speech than what we enjoy here. I find this bill pretty chilling.
> But presumably you wouldn't be able to get an app for it in any app store

Which would also filter out all non tech savvy people, for better or worse.
Just dove into Beej's Guide to Network Concepts and it's as clear as it gets for networking newbies!
Now everyone can set up a job post and receive lots of free Vitae (assuming it can be converted to and from USD) and the job market becomes flooded
> closed source msvcrt

Isn't msvcrt source code included with Visual Studio? I distinctly remember looking through it many years ago.

And I see it now too on my install: C:\Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\2022\Community\VC\Tools\MSVC\14.37.32822\crt\src

But maybe it's not 100% of it and some key parts and missing, and obviously there might be legal issues reading this source code.
It's amazing how powerful and clean Postman and Insomnia both felt when they were young and followed such similar trajectories into bloat and UI-unfriendliness hell.
Looking for the explainer on this one!
> overburden developers

Given by today's standard, _most_ if not all the code I review out in the wild are these:
- Search your question on $search_engine
- Land to stackoverflow
- Copy
- Paste
- Write some crappy unit test (important but still crappy IMHO)
- CI
- Boom land on production

Where is this special fairy of "overburden"'ed devs you speak of?

Very few code today are _true_ innovations. It's a pile of abstractions over abstraction shite.
Even top journals in hard sciences sometimes publish papers that aren't actually peer reviewed based solely on the authors credentials. I once heard a National Academy member claim they get some number of papers automatically published into PNAS bypassing review as part of their position. Those papers aren't flagged as different than the others.

On some level given the context of the journal them saying "these known scientists are saying a weird thing which is interesting, even if you ask three other peers in their field think this is entirely bogus and even if it's entirely bogus it's still interesting and basically on the authors reputation if it's really junk".
I fail to see the reference. Can you elaborate?
Why can you not have both privacy and safety? The notion of privacy isn’t mutually exclusive with finding criminals. Generally, we accept that criminals don’t deserve privacy. Historically, that’s meant that investigators have needed to show someone is likely a criminal before invading their privacy. What’s wrong with that model? Why do we need to change it now?