skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Is it pertinent that you know that the thing was posted in CST and not UTC?

Genuinely curious as to why knowing the timezone instead of approximate date matters so much.
Lists in Python have a integer for their size and a pointer for each element. Sets presumably have some number of buckets that are used to put pointers in, but many more buckets are allocated than get used in small sets.
AI outperforms conventional weather forecasting for the first time: Google study
Kind of like Disney's priority passes that now everybody has to buy to hope to get on a ride at some point during the day.
We really don't. We have some surface level idea about differences, but we can't tell how that does affect the actual learning and behaviours.

More importantly we have nothing to tell us whether it matters, or if it will turn out any number of sufficiently advanced architectures will inevitably approximate similar behaviours when exposed to the same training data.

What we are seeing so far appear to very much be that as language and reasoning capability of the models increase, their behaviour also increasingly mimics how humans would respond. Which makes sense as that is what they are being trained to.

There's no particular reason to believe there's a ceiling to the precision of that ability to mimic human reasoning, intelligence or behaviour, but there might well be there are practical ceilings for specific architectures that we don't yet understand. Or it could just be a question of efficiency.

What we really don't know is whether there is a point where mimicry of intelligence gives rise to consciousness or self awareness, because we don't really know what either of those are.

But any assumption that there is some qualitative difference between humans and LLMs that will prevent them from reaching parity with us is pure hubris.
DSM-V and ICD?

ADHD is diagnosed based on symptoms, not based on physiological signs. Like most diagnoses, it's a co-occurring set of traits we'de decided is outside of what's normal.
That Amazon Silent Meeting thing... I think that would drive me crazy. It's annoying enough when someone hasn't read what you've posted as an agenda in a meeting invite and you have to tell them about it. I don't want to sit on camera with 6 other people reading a 6 page document.
It becomes exponentially harder to find an innovation that moves the revenue needle perceptibly, when you are Google's size.
> 1 or 2 emails a day. Bliss.

Just reading that made me feel the presence of 'bliss' :)
Dumb question about land value tax- does it unfairly penalize people who own large tracts of land like farmers and loggers?
I feel a strong urge to suggest that it may in fact stem primarily from a deliberate and maniacal worship of Nurgle, the Chaos God of despair, disease, and destruction.
I agree, why does it matter if my feed is interspersed with everything from long form to a simple short form link post?
Chrome wouldn't be viable as a separate company. Android might be at this point with the Play Store, but that's itself a target of the anti-trust suit.
> 1. If Google would force Google apps on all manufacturers then they might not have went the Android route.

What route would they have taken? Symbian? BlackBerry OS?
Studying origins of our contemporary ideas is nothing new. Postmodernism is characterized by the cynicism in regard to those origins, and even more in regard to those ideas that came before.
> nuclear is the "One True Solution" to clean energy

Not to be that guy but it sort of is. Comparing nuclear power to renewables is a lot like comparing a truck to an electric scooter. Sure, both can transport you to your destination and both work equally well in many scenarios, maybe the scooter even has advantages in some places but when it comes to handling the entirety of possible scenarios the truck is the clear choice. That doesn't mean you can't have a truck and a scooter and use each where appropriate, it's just that you'll probably use the truck a lot more.
It's real but most people don't have ADHD, they can't focus because they aren't actually interested in what they are doing but blame ADHD and take drugs.
Show HN: Open-Sourcing Google's Lattice Models in PyTorch
We're a group of engineers, AI/ML enthusiasts, and author of this paper https://openreview.net/forum?id=0pxiMpCyBtr who saw a closed door in AI/ML and decided to open it. This project is a PyTorch reimagining of Google's TensorFlow Lattice models, which despite being labeled open-source, were previously open in name only (you have to be a Googler to contribute). Also, side point…TensorFlow is dying https://thenextweb.com/news/why-tensorflow-for-python-is-dyi...

Here's the deal: Lattice models excel in making AI interpretable—key for sectors where understanding model rationale is as crucial as the prediction. Yet, their potential was gated behind Google's walls.

Fueled by the spirit of true open-source philosophy and driven by the robust, community-centric ecosystem of PyTorch, we've built a toolkit that not only matches the functionality of Google's TensorFlow lattices but is open for everyone to contribute, improve, and innovate.

We're inviting you to join in. Whether it's to critique, contribute, or simply to learn, we believe your voice can help shape the future of open-source AI/ML.

https://github.com/ControlAI/pytorch-lattice
Programming nowadays is slowly separating from the idea of writing code.

No-code tools has made it way easier to develope things.

Some people who barely know programming are able to create their own ai product using LangChain!
The article is nuanced, while the title is eye-catching and uncharitable. If you react to the title without reading the article, you'll get the wrong idea.
> 70% of the US is either female, POC, or both.

The US is I guess 51% women, maybe 20–30% Hispanic, maybe 15% African-American, and so on. Then you just need to put one of every identity on the Moon in the next decade.

Because surely you didn’t think that the average person of a sociological minority identify themselves as “not a white [straight] male”.
If public corporations existed to benefit their customers yes, but they don't they exist to benefit their shareholders. This money will go towards stock buy backs and higher dividends.
Documentation maintenance seems underrated. For most of my career, information was dumped in a wiki, so that everyone could maintain it. But if everyone maintains it, nobody does.

Every project needs someone responsible for someone taking ownership of the documentation, including research and timestamping and the like. Have a todo list where the oldest document goes on top, check it for relevance and accuracy, cull it if it's outdated, get it up to date otherwise, and (as this comment recommends) update the timestamp.

My current project has a wiki going back years, loads of duplicate information, no clues whatsoever if it's still relevant.
That's true for most language changes, but this is not particularly new at this point, though still new enough that it's understandable that it'll be misunderstood.
Show HN: Privacy Scout – understand privacy policies in minutes with LLMs
At Atticus AI, we're on a mission to make legal understanding more accessible to everyone. After building our contract analysis tool and talking to folks, we noticed a common use-case: understanding privacy policies. We decided to build a standalone tool, Privacy Scout, to address this need.

With Privacy Scout, all it takes is a URL to a privacy policy. From there, the tool takes over by:

- Retrieving and analyzing the policy.

- Grading the policy with an easy-to-understand and transparent scoring system.

- Allowing users to compare privacy policies across companies in our public directory.

Big learnings for us:

- Updating our privacy policy was necessary due to the lack of key terms.

- A significant portion of the work in effectively utilizing LLMs involves data engineering, such as data munging and developing robust pipelines.

- Achieving standout performance with Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) requires extensive domain-specific experimentation.

We're continuing to build a suite of tools to make legal understanding more accessible, and I would love your feedback!
And it should be standard practice to air dry any sort of steak before grilling it. We season the steaks, and put a desk fan on them till the skin is dry before grilling. Patting them dry with a paper towel doesn't cut it.
"and scripts from suggestions."

Can't they do that already?
The story goes Eich was hired to embed Scheme in a browser, and hung on to lambdas and functional concepts but lost homoiconicity by management fiat; they didn’t like the weird way it looked. He tried to intentionally a Scheme and ended up accidentally a Scheme step-cousin. It’s fair to say some argue it is a Scheme dialect, because some people do, and they’re not wrong, JS does share aspects. It’s also fair to say JS is not a Scheme, also true.

I googled and found someone’s blog post with a fun description: “JS is stupid Lisp in Java’s ill-fitting clothing. It’s Alonzo Church going to a Halloween party as Alan Turing. It’s the lambda calculus in Turing-machine drag. It’s a quirky nerd with a cynical marketing department. (The syntax and the name of the language — JavaScript—were determined by Netscape’s desire to ride the coattails of Java’s popularity in the early 1990s.) It’s multiparadigm salad.” https://medium.com/thinking-with-computers/javascript-is-not...
I don't like companies that fool people into thinking they buy Status.

That sounds like the morally and ethically correct stance to take. They continue to look poor, but vein as well.
Hey all, I'm William Bakst, the creator of the library. I used to work at Google where I worked on the Glassbox research team (creators of TensorFlow Lattice and TensorFlow Constrained Optimization). It was crazy useful internally and approaches problems relevant to all kinds of businesses so I was kind of baffled that the 'open-source' version was only available to Google employs to contribute to. I think PyTorch has a better community around it anyways, so i've made an actual open-source version so any company that wants to take advantage of the explainability of a simple model like linear regression, but the accuracy of more complex models like deep neural networks, can start applying this now AND anyone can contribute, so hopefully this gets better and more accessible over time.
ChatGPT is really, really good at surfacing small blogs and websites on a huge variety of topics. Ask it for a list of personal blogs about running a hobby garden.

It's not a perfect solution – if you ask for a fairly commercialized topic it can struggle to cut through the noise and will return larger websites with SEO-fodder style blog posts, but even with that caveat, it's miles better than Google.
I'm not sure why it would not, just the revenue from the default search engine would be massive.
Is in an ADHD thing to scatter random pictures through the article rather than just have the text? Perhaps it breaks things up in a way that makes concentration easier? For me they were a distraction -- I much prefer to have a wall of text.

The web is full of this style these days, so perhaps the algos have decided it increases engagement.

This is not a snark comment or a complaint about style! People should post however they wish! I am just curious if there is data on the topic. I know Medium requires a junk picture at the top of every post, but I haven't seen data on this from them, just an assertion that it's importand.
I think its really surprising how so many corporate IT departments are awful at enabling employees. You can see it a lot in /r/sysadmin where they complain how they got some crappy solution working "great" but their users refuse to use it. The average employee at a F500 company hates their IT department. All they do from their perspective is make it harder to do their work. This is why you see all of these VBA scripts.
It's a very long stretch to say he was a nuclear expert. Actual nuclear experts do not consider him one of us. His policies were pretty damaging to the industry. His hope was that of the US didn't recycle nuclear fuel, then maybe other countries wouldn't. But that was not the case. The UK, France, Japan, Russia went ahead with nuclear fuel recycling anyway.

https://atomicinsights.com/jimmy-carter-never-served-nuclear...
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/-pilled
Tweets often have full timestamps and most of his best known statements are on there, lol
Oso Golf: 9 programming puzzles
My guess is that it started simple. Early caterpillars probably didn't metamorph into something so drastically different. Even earlier ones probably barely had something that resembles metamorphosis.
How do you source them, google?
I invite you to play the metagame for agricultural exemptions
No, this is class consciousness, and by conflating these things you've strengthened their point.
I will NEVER buy a samsung phone. They have all these backroom deals to put in Services like additional LocationProvider(the underlying service that can be subscribed to for loc updates) for companies that will pay them to get access to location updates differently than other apps can. Like a social media company or an advert company you get that favor for $$$$$.

With google you know they control the locationProvider and all apps are equal and google still has priveledged access but its only them(as bad as that is)
"A warrant requirement would amount to a de facto ban"

Yeah Chris, that is the point.
Ubuntu literally feeds you adverts from Amazon.

Sure you can opt out, but that’s not respecting user’s privacy.
In tech, large successful companies very rarely never lose their existing market. They generally falter when they fail to compete in a new, bigger market that makes their existing market relatively insignificant.

IBM didn't lose the main frame market. The Microsoft/Intel PC market just made it pale in comparison.

Microsoft never lost the PC OS and apps market. The size of the smartphone market just made the PC market pale by comparison.
100%. I’m glad Australia appears to be doing an actual diagnosis rather than just prescribing drugs.

All kids are different. Some kids can sit and read for hours. But some kids need to do physical stuff. Schools don’t cater for the latter. Gone are the days of learning wood work and metal work, cooking, sewing. Kids don’t do PE class like they used to. We try to ram all kids through the same meat grinder and when one resists we try to dumb them down with drugs and force them through. These kids are probably WORSE off being on drugs and shoved through the meat grinder than had they dropped out and done a trade skill instead. Nope it’s adhd and we got to drug them up and in most cases it’s a visit to the doctor and “do you have adhd” “I think so” “good enough for me here take this drug that I get paid to prescribe you”
> For instance, someone might excessively rely on calendars, to-do lists, or alarms to compensate for forgetfulness."

Holy objects. Can't survive with any of these things.

I have 2 calendars running (it's actually only one, but I have Outlook mobile installed, plus Apple Calendar- they sync to the same calendar , I get two separate notifications for everything so I can't just dismiss them as easily).
Donny Trump, who contradicts himself on the regular.
Unfortunately genuine ADHD is a physiological problem that requires stimulant therapy _and_ cognitive behavior therapy in conjunction. Your dopamine and/or acetylcholine receptors are out of whack. This is why coffee and cigarettes/vapes are so prevalent. Methylphenidate or dexamphetamine work best but you pay a price. Yes, I have real world executive function research lab experience, so I know a bit of what I'm talking about. You need a good neurologist.
Oh God this sounds so much like my autobiography :(
> I think ADHD is the new norm.

Maybe selection bias, but a significant number of my friends are diagnosed.
Its not all Linux. The *BSDs are also quite respectful of your privacy.
Even for blogs it might matter if they are talking about breaking news. A timezone can roll a date forward/backwards one day.

I am talking about having a UX date/time standard for all of UX, not just blogs.

There is UX where knowing timezone is critical, ex: when analyzing logs, breaking news etc.

To keep things simple it would be great if everyone agreed to always attach TZ info to any date or time shown.

Furthermore, any blog/article that might not appear important at the time it's posted, might become important DUE to breaking news. So just put timezones everywhere an be done with it :)
A bold move, especially for Hungary. Not sure that plant will ever be finished.
I also came to the realization that apps dont have any magic functionality you can't emulate or copy wholesale, just that they might package it up in a way that makes sense to either buy in perpetuity or subscribe where necessary and buyable solutions don't currently apply or exist
Does the time change for you with season and light exposure? I sometimes experience this sort of thing too, where I will have a consistent window of productivity at an unusual time, but it never lasts for a more than a few months.
I'm a huge proponent of land tax. Here's why I think it's worth considering:

1. Economic Efficiency: Unlike income or consumption taxes, an LVT is non-distortionary. It doesn't discourage productive activities like work, saving, or investment. Land is a fixed resource; its supply doesn't change with price or tax fluctuations. Therefore, an LVT wouldn't distort market incentives, unlike other taxes. By shifting the tax burden onto land, we could potentially reduce the distortionary effects of other taxes and promote economic growth.

2. Wealth Inequality Reduction: Land ownership in the U.S. is highly concentrated. A significant portion of the country's land is owned by a small percentage of the population. An LVT would primarily affect these large landowners, redistributing wealth more evenly across society. Plus, land can't be hidden or moved offshore, making an LVT difficult to evade and an effective tool for wealth redistribution.

3. Sustainable Land Use: Many landowners hold onto vacant or underutilized land as a speculative investment, waiting for its value to increase. This leads to urban sprawl, inefficient land use, and higher housing costs. An LVT would make this kind of speculation less attractive, encouraging landowners to develop or sell their land. This could lead to more efficient land use, less urban sprawl, and potentially more affordable housing.
Search result quality has been declining on Google since 2019. The web is increasingly turning into closed platform unindexable silos.

These payments aren't towards being the default, it's to ensure that search itself does not get replaced by a different paradigm.

You could argue that it is not a coincidence that the likes of Siri stagnated for so long, while we saw the rise of LLMs effectively resurrecting it elsewhere.
Speak for your own country because others have built huge numbers of nuclear plants with an average of 4 years for completion. The anti-nuke sentiment from the environmental movement is the only reason the U.S. isn't entirely energy independent. That attitude has probably done more to contribute to climate change than anything else, ironically.
I feel like the governments of the world need to put resources into some of these major spokes of technology. I know 1B is a lot of money, but the US throws that around. Imagine 1B into python. Nah, don't even imagine that, its too much money. Imagine 50M.

I'm somewhat surprised big tech hasnt lobbied for something like this. Maybe they like their silos. Everyone gets a cut, don't shake the boat.
Nah, I thought it would be about storing dates in databases. Implication is inaccurate, inaccurate is bad, like "a year ago" in timestamps.
Playwright vs. Selenium vs. Cypress. Deciding Among the Test Automation Titans
Use the time standard that's best suited to your use case. Of course that requires understanding time standards at least a bit. Usually the differences will be minor, but they can matter for things like navigation.

Use TAI if you want a monotonic time. UNIX time and GPS time work too, they're fixed offsets from TAI.

Use UTC if you want a calendar date/time. Most human interactions are with time zones relative to UTC.

Those two cover almost all the cases you'll need.

Use UT1 if you want time that roughly tracks the solar time, averaging out the differences in day length due to earth's tilt & elliptical orbit.

Use apparent solar time if you really care about calculating where the sun is or will be for some reason and can't just point your solar telescope at it.

Use sidereal time if you're trying to calculate where extrasolar objects will be.

Use barycentric coordinate time (TCB) if you're plotting the trajectories of interplanetary spacecraft missions or the ephemerides of planets.

Various religions have their own time standards used to calculate when holidays occur.

There are a few others still usable, even more niche than the above. Use one of the first two and you'll probably be fine.
Or you could believe that the $30 B spent unlocked $150 B of revenue, more than $30 B of which could be spent on development and aggressive competition.

I personally don't believe that at all (that the extra gains will be spent on development) but the possibility exists.
Hi all! one of the makers of Oso Golf here :)

Authorization is a challenge for everyone, but has been solved by no one. As the people who wake up thinking about authorization each day we created Oso Golf, a game to help educate the developers about authorization.

We built the first iteration for this game for GraphQL summit, as a fun way for developers to learn Oso’s policy language. Attendees got really into the game, hanging out at our booth for upwards of 30 minutes to solve this with their friends.

So we got some feedback on the game and built it out into 9 “holes,” just like a Golf course, each hole teaches you a different principle of authorization modeling. We’re opening this up to the community today and are excited to see what you think!
Interesting. I like the daily meeting - gives me an anchor for my day that works with the meds. But like most ADHD people when unmedicated I get more productive at night, so I can see why you'd hate the daily checkin.
I don't see the address of buildings I'm in even when I stand in front of it on the street.
Flexential is near us and other major markets. I know our local one just did their monthly UPS battery and generator test. Benefit to Flex is that they have interconnects to their nearby DCs and use Megaport for connecting to Cloud providers. They have a lot of various options and for us their rack pricing was pretty good.
Too many people want to move to Berlin, from wherever they lived before. Because where they lived before does not offer people what they need and want.

To solve the housing crisis in Berlin, Germany must put in a lot of work to make other cities and towns attractive.