skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Not Good For:

> User IDs - Can be decoded, revealing user count

Suppose you don't want to leak the count, what's a resonable way of implementing that?

You can of course have a uuid v7 / uulids or something as the primary key. Or have it as a public facing primary key, mapping back to a sequential ID PK (there might be some performance hits with larger PK's in e.g postgres? or is that just fud?)

But you could also generate a public ID with something like encrypt(seq_id, secret) and then encode it with whatever alphabet and or profanity filter you'd like - right? The issue then is that all public ID's would be long (and of course dealing with a decrypt operation on all incoming requests).

Don't know what's best really.
> I've realized moving 30k+ photos from Lightroom is not likely a thing.

If it helps, I built this [1] to extract xmp sidecars from the LR database.

[1] https://github.com/andyjohnson0/XmpLibeRator
Toyota lost me simply from the dealer model. I was looking for a Grand Highlander hybrid, with preferences for certain trims and colors. Dealer told me they get what they get, and Toyota doesn’t do special orders. Oh and $10k dealer markup just because.

I now own a Rivian R1S
Did they never make an IKEA purchase after that or did they get over it like a normal adult?

I don't work retail, but something tells me people will make a stink out of just about anything if it meant potentially free products or other compensation.

Plus, are you filtering just English curse words or all curse words for countries that use Latin characters?
In context France this was after the Treaty of Amiens when the UK returned colonies seized from France during the French Revolution and in which slavery had therefore never been abolished. I believe that the reinstatement really applied only to Guadeloupe and French Guiana.

You could also have mentioned that he abolished restrictions and discriminations imposed on the Jews in every European country he conquered.
You forgot to have a point.
Yep. Also requires an airfield.

The F-35 can take off from an LHD (not a full-fat carrier) which means they can be anywhere. Scary for an adversary.
Oh I read about the about the DK effect a while ago. I'm pretty much an expert in Psychology now, AMA.
Harmonic oscillators naturally sample Fourier transforms, so for example the different cilia lengths in our ears are used to transform sounds into the frequency domain and the amplitude of various frequencies is how our nervous system intakes sound.
lynx has robust javascript support.
Idea is a pretty general term. I have a bunch of patents and I would describe them all as patenting an idea (for how to achieve some goal).

The implementation or execution of the idea usually takes the form of some Verilog or some C++. That is covered by copyright.

The patent is for the idea. Which is part of why I'm so opposed to patents, not just in software. In other fields, like medicine, patents are perhaps for discoveries, which are IMHO similarly valuable as the execution. But ideas aren't that valuable, or shouldn't be.
It's a base62 encoder that takes multiple integers as input. Probably a bit-length prefixed encoding. I am assuming it just pads an extra junk integer to re-roll the encoded number.
It was a joke.

I'm not a fan of "viral" licenses, and agree that, if a company doesn't want to abide by the license, they should not include them, but I am also not a fan of trying to force others to force others, to force others, etc., ad nauseam.

I tend to use MIT, which isn't always everyone's cup of tea, but means that you can use my code, and it would be nice to be credited, but I won't cry myself to sleep, if you don't.
It also makes it slightly easier to perform certain attacks since it's trivial to figure out other IDs.
Pretty sure a decent amount of the Moscow metro was built with convict labor under Stalin.
RWKV v5 7B Open-Source, 60% trained, approaching Mistral 7B in abilities
There are millions of slaves around the world. No government explicitly allows slavery, but plenty turn a blind eye to it, Mauritania being one of the more egregious ones.
In order to be sure that your scripts work across most of the shells, you can also aim at POSIX compatibility.
I'll probably be shot for this one, but good! They're expensive as hell, horrible pits of socially acceptable alcoholism which tend to end up in misery for a lot of people. Everyone found better, healthier things to do and better places to hang out and did it.
Stopping accumulation of power is very hard when you have no accumulated power. I’m not sure how you could possibly believe otherwise unless you’re one of those believers in magical harmonious anarchy
In that case it sounds like a shortcoming on their part. There is no fundamental reason to have that limitation. I understand it can make the implementation easier to not have it, but in my opinion being blocklist change agnostic would be a much better value offering.
The only reason it got big enough to be boom-eligible was that geeks, nerds, and cypherpunks (in particular) understood how mathematically revolutionary it was.
Compared to energy/fuel waste from living on land? I would think the required minimalism placed upon the 'tenants' would make up for the ship's pollution. Amazon doesn't deliver to the middle of the ocean (of course there's ports though...).
Reminds me of my old civic, pre-cvt, once you get to about 70kph, it would shift into a high gear and then engine noise would become a satisfyingly low hum. My current car with CVT hasn't got an operating regime I enjoy like that.
I don't think this is the only factor but I suspect part of it is because GPT-4 had access to better datasets.

After ChatGPT came out a lot of the places GPT was assumed to be trained on (reddit, twitter) started closing their APIs.

This alone represents a pretty significant moat.
One side is guaranteed to lose though. He's just buying time, but it won't be cheap.
This is exactly what we did and why we did it in the early 2000s. The company (of about 700 people) standard was "baggy pantsing"[0].

Of course there was etiquitte. You only ever emailed smaller groups (your team, your floor, rtc) - never all staff. You always explained to a newbie so they didn't feel too embarassed or singled out - and they always got a heads up during training.

Our small team of 15 got pretty crazy though. Rebinding keys, replacing all the icons with My Little Pony or Hello Kitty custom sets, etc. It became a good competition and a great way to blow off steam in a high output role, and as a byproduct built in good physical security.

0. https://securityintelligence.com/dont-get-pantsed-embrace-a-...
I used to (NoScript, then uMatrix for years), but it is a ton of work. Just blocking problem scripts with uBlock Origin gets you 95% of and way there. The last 5% is a lot of extra effort for seriously diminishing returns.
Not having a battery
This is not a take back scheme.
Wait. Why are you reading the bash man page without fully understanding man?

You need to fully understand man before reading the man bash page. Here:

https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/man.1.html

but before that are you reading that on chrome? Have you read the chrome documentation?
Git is also really quite good at enabling pretty much any workflow. There's no blessed golden workflow that is completely frictionless, but there're also not many things that are completely impractical. Most "git but better" alternatives seem to favour a particular workflow. Which is fine, until it isn't (e.g. no matter what you might think of the git rebase system, using a tool that doesn't support rebase at all is much less fun).

Wierd situations very rarely seem happen to me. At worst you just git reset --hard to something sensible. If you're nervous about doing something, make a tag before you do it at your current HEAD location (git tag "pre-drama-tag-here-we-go") and you'll always be able to tap your heels and go home without even having to find the right hash.
No, but a patent can be invalidated if you can show that the idea is obvious to practitioners of the trade, i.e. given the same problem most software engineers would arrive at the same solution.
Just a note. They migrated to the core because they easily form alloys with iron ("siderophiles").
I have seen patents. The whole point is to share a method of doing something, in return for exclusive use of that method for a period of time. That's the theory, anyway.
But what if I have an idemic memory?
Probably in another year or two they'll find another statistic that will render the old one moot like again and again.
> everything here seems on the up and up, just ambitious and from people without the network to support it unilaterally

Nothing about a brand-new cruise ship company that hasn't actually done a single cruise, doesn't actually have a ship, choosing to embark on a three-year voyage, on a rush-job retrofit vessel is 'on the up and up'.

(While charging less than half of what their competitors would.)

There are so many ways it can turn into a horror show.

There's probably damn good reasons the investors flaked out.
I think the the emergent behavior is still the most plausible. There really is not much difference between our brain and a chimpanzees, it is definitely not accounted for genetically to be that much more intelligent.
Its not like there aren't still a metric ton of purveyors of liquid death and destruction. People would be better off in every way with the return of Opium dens, at least they don't destroy your physical and mental body as badly and irreoverably than/as alcohol

This is to say nothing of the violence and murdery shit that directly flows from alcohol consumption, statistically speaking
The water ban came later for a different reason, namely the "Liquid bomb" plot, which involved bringing liquid bombs onto planes and detonating them mid-flight. I'm not saying the ban was an especially good reaction, but cockpit doors wouldn't have helped. You don't need to be in the cockpit to bring a plane down with a bomb.
No, that's not the reason pubs had to close. If that were the reason I would half-agree with you, but it wasn't. They were destroyed by the economy. Businesses being destroyed by the economy is nothing to celebrate.
Ask HN: Are there any good sources of randomness in the human body?
Suppose I wanted to generate a 1 or a 0 with equal probability, and I don’t have access to anything other than my own conscious experience. No coins, no timers, no cameras, no thermometers — nothing. Just sitting in an empty, windowless room. How can I achieve this? I want to be able to generate a genuinely random (that is, no memorising a PRNG algorithm!) result at least once every ten minutes. Any ideas?
Isn't this also part of how a human works?
The oceans are huge
I believe this is behind permissions, the Permissions-Policy directive "battery"
If a predictable PRNG is sufficient for wiping disks, why do we care that the data is random at all? How about writing 0, 1, 2, ..., 255, 0, 1, 2, ... to consecutive bytes? Or -- generate 1 kb of good quality random data, and write the same 1 Kb repeatedly? It's not clear to me what we're trying to achieve in this scenario.
Many of those reviewer comments are utterly moronic. And that is my polite opinion.

How does this work? Is there a review board? Is it put to public review? A few of them like "dick out" and "shtlord" are reasonable, but many of them seem so bonkers it looks like the work of trolls.

Anyway, TIL that 1970s Intel was a MS-13 gang outfit and that Octocat really means "eight vaginas".
Citizens should be shareholders, but let's not stretch the analogy.
Well if the European monarchies had not tried to invade France in order to destroy the Republic nothing might have happened...
depends on how far into the weeds you get and the model you're using. gpt4 is pretty reliable at explaining concepts at a high level and its better at it than any textbook or wiki page can be because of its ability to answer follow-up questions in context. its basically the next best thing to a college professor's office hours.
In 1985 you could run a multi-tasking OS in 256KB of memory and run a word processor and paint program in that. That included application memory, GPU memory, and OS memory. Now to run a word processor and paint program on a PC requires 8GB of memory.
> But as soon as you need to reliably attend video meetings is where cruise ships fail at the present time.

Could Starlink solve this?
>we found 72,508 ebook titles (including 83 from Stanford University Press) that were pirated and then widely used to train LLMs despite the protections of copyright law

https://aicopyright.substack.com/p/the-books-used-to-train-l...
I see. I'm using a normal router in bridge mode as an extender and that's been working well enough and comes with WPS built in so for instance, I can turn it on there if the printer is closer but of course it would be nice to turn it on in one place and have all the extenders have it on as well.
Do you have shields on?
It’s more akin to having a conversation with a well educated person. They aren’t perfect either but it’s good enough to pick up general knowledge. It’s an amazing tool.
According to wiki, just Lines 1, 4, 6, 11, and 14. So that leaves at least 9 that don’t (assuming continuous numbering).
There's more metals in the Earth's crust and core. The metals in the asteroid belts are more accessible.
It was in both since about 2012. Removed from Firefox in 2016:

https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1313580

Removed from Webkit (Safari) soon after:

https://webkit.org/tracking-prevention/

Chrome took a middle ground, removing it for insecure origins and reducing the precision:

https://chromestatus.com/feature/4878376799043584
Turns out the real personality test was a centrifuge.
Honestly this is a perfectly valid concern. I mostly use it as a jumping off point. Sometimes we don't have the language required to do our own search on a subject.

If the LLM can give me a bird's eye view of the subject, then it enables me to go off and do my own research and come with my own conclusions, even if they don't align with what the LLM originally told me.

The fact is, there's a ton of misinformation on the Internet. Doesn't matter if you're getting your info from an LLM or not, you should almost always be trying to get your info from multiple sources if possible.
For the foundational parts I'd start with HTML, JS, and CSS syntax. It's very approachable as a beginner. I'd learn to use the browser devtools, learn how to use the CLI effectively (especially npm and git to get started) and I'd probably start with React or Next.js to start building web apps asap. They'll be around for a while it seems and they're extremely popular. Unfortunately, that only covers the frontend.

Next, I'd start learning to build APIs. I'd probably start with Node.js even today if I were to start again (even though it's not my favorite today). I'd start with maybe a simple CRUD app and if Copilot is an option, I'd try to see how much I could get it to write. Copilot does really well with "business logic". I'd use JSON to send responses to the frontend for this API and by then, I'd understand what full stack web development is a little bit. I'd also want to use an ORM in the beginning. I wish I had known about ORMs for working with databases sooner.

From there, I'd either A. Try to build something I've always wanted or B. Learn about a new frontend/backend technology C. Look at what others are building on X, LinkedIn, or HN.

If I was really focused on building AI products, I'd learn about LangChain and some of the OpenAI APIs to start.

To make the most of LLMs/Copilot, here are a few things that've helped me:

- Name variables, functions, etc. appropriately. Add comments to be explicit about something.

- Use the most popular tools & frameworks. Copilot has more data on them.

- ChatGPT can be even more useful than Copilot sometimes. Sometimes it's worse.

- Instead of Googling for the CLI command, ask ChatGPT.
Yes, it says Shields are up for that page (the default until you say otherwise as far as I know). Fingerprint blocking is on. I disabled all cookies and it still works. I tried Safari and it is not working there. Pretty strange. v1.60.118
> Compared to energy/fuel waste from living on land?

Yes, assuming the cruise ship moves and needs many, many other boats to bring supplies like food and potable water.
It’s not a topic I’m particularly passionate about, but to take the opposing view:

Millions of people enjoy visiting pubs every week and the overwhelming majority don’t have an alcohol problem.

It’s an important venue for social connections at a time when there are less and less of those. They haven’t been replaced with other venues for many people, particularly the elderley who already struggle with social isolation.

They are also a big part of our culture and heritage at a time when that is also under threat from many angles.

The industry covers tens of thousands of jobs and captures boat loads of taxes both directly and indirectly.

And the annoying thing is that they are still viable small businesses, but the big pubcos and the taxes have squeezed the industry until it’s unviable to operate.

I’m not a big pub person, but I think it’s a shame to lose one of the few remaining pastimes which haven’t been replaced with an app.
In the US, train rides typically take anywhere from 1.5x-3x as long as driving.
I understand the problems with people using your email to register for sites. My confusion was the claim that verifying the email for some random stranger causes fewer problems than ignoring the verification email.
You can use an iPhone to reload a Navigo card, but you cannot use it by itself.
I think there are quite nice pubs but Wetherspoon's pubs can definitely be missed.
The *encoding* changes. The decoding stays consistent:

> Decoding IDs will usually produce some kind of numeric output, but that doesn't necessarily mean that the ID is canonical. To check that the ID is valid, you can re-encode decoded numbers and check that the ID matches.

The reason this is not done automatically is that if the default blocklist changes in the future, we don't want to automatically invalidate the ID that has been generated in the past and might now be matching a new blocklist word.
I find it pretty hard to get alarmed about the impacts of declining population when my family and I have spent the 2019 summer on the run from a raging bushfire, and a few years later, I watched my neighbouring suburbs get washed away in the 2nd once-in-a-century flood we've had in a decade.

Sorry, but I think the world needs fewer people right now, and I'm doing my bit to help.
If it wasn't clear, this is actually a real thing. See e.g., https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Familial_natural_short_sleep (of course whether it would actually be possible to just pick this up via gene therapy is untested, and I think gene therapies are hard in the brain because of the blood-brain barrier). One of my roommates in college had this and was able to get by fine with 5 hours of sleep a night, I was always envious.
> California Personalized License Plate Requests Flagged for Review 2015-2016: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/18IUVU9Q4uN_lxqNd5AsN...

Wow this is a funny peek into a weird perdicment where people need to justify that they have a good reason to have a specific license plate.

Some seems obviously ok such as:

INT13H

314 PI

And some are obviously not:

DRY(hand emoji)JOB

DICK OUT

Come to think of it: Can license plates have emojis now?!
Then you'd be able to draw and type out everything from scratch directly on your employer's PC and not have to download it via USB drives or email, like this guy did.
Starlink works incredibly well for my friends aboard their yachts. I think this is truly and amazingly a solved problem, as incredible as it looks to write this today.
No Three in a Line
Huh. My intuition would have been that stdin/stderr provided by sshd to the shell would have been been marked as `isatty(3)`. TIL.
After listening to a few dozen chimes and confusing some of them I can't help but wonder why we accept technology to communicate to us in this crude way. Why not make it talk to us, "too fast", "too close", "hand brake active", etc.?

Might want to keep chimes for emergency warnings where speech would be too slow, although there's an argument to be made that speech would still be better, since jarring chimes might scare you so much that you take just as much if not more time until you've identified the emergency.
My whole life I've been very well-rested on 6 hours of sleep. Only recently learned it was a genetic anomaly.
Then you misunderstood or saw too few patents.
A lot of them run smelly diesel generators that stink up cities they port in (ironically Seattle just a couple of blocks from Amazon). And I mean, it’s like a dead fish smell. They also run on very dirty fuel for propulsion.
"And I think a lot of people are like me. We read books to get away from the problems of real life, not dive into other people's troubled minds."

That certainly makes sense and is of course also a subjective preference. To me great insights lie in the darkness, but it isn't for everyone and not at any time.
I don't think so - those would be first-party cookies.
What if the money was stolen? Or obtained in some other illegal way?
I am unfortunately easily googleable as only 1 other person in the world has my first and last name
> …now face a wait of at least several months to get their money back. The company has said it will make repayments in monthly installments, starting from mid-December and completing repayments in late February.

lol lawsuit incoming, unless they company is in international waters and unable to be sued in any jurisdication
Montreal metro uses rubber wheels. It's the smoothest train ride you'll get in all of North America.
I think that in many ways this is a plus. It’s actually really hard outside of actually attending a class with fellow students to find examples of something “wrong” that you can then attempt to crossreference and correct. But when studying with other students, that’s what you do all the time.

The friction involved is counterbalanced by the conversational aspect which makes it feel less tedious or even fun.

I often like to have the ai:

- provide exercises

- play the student asking me the e teacher to clarify and answer questions

- have it put on a little theater play with different students

I was talking about this earlier on mastodon:

- https://hachyderm.io/@mnl/111471750626975201

- https://hachyderm.io/@mnl/111467764783141450

- https://typeshare.co/go-go-golems/posts/ai-driven-self-educa...

I also find it one of the most effective ways of learning, and complement it with the usual book/video learning and (very importantly) writing down the important points learned during the conversation (potentially coming up with Flashcards which can then also be “cosplayed” by gpt), because gpt transcripts are just indigestible.
I remember playing this game on an old DOS laptop, even in the early 2000s.

This version is demonstrating an interesting gotcha with emulating sound. The old PC speaker hardware ran at over 1 MHz, and it would generate square waves at integer divisors of this rate. This version of the game is sampling these square waves at 48 KHz, and the jitter from the waves not lining up perfectly adds a bunch of noise known as aliasing artifacts. It's what's giving the music a sort of DTMF (touch tone) quality to it.

I recompiled the game locally with a mitigation for this effect, just by oversampling and taking an average, and it sounds a lot better.

Game Boys also have audio hardware that runs at such high frequencies. I wonder how many emulators run at that rate and downsample properly? High-quality square waves are tricky!
Dr Phil seems to defy his own insights on overeating. It clearly does not work for him. As a fat guy it tells me not to read the rest of his book.