skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The weirdest one I saw was this: User claims that the wording of the info they enter into a certain form changes when they save. At first I suspected someone else editing the same form at the same time unbeknownst to each other but it wasn't the case according to the logs. And I saw the correct wording on my own computer.

Then I noticed in their screenshots that some of the menus had weird wording too. Turns out they had Chrome's "Translate this page" option on. Problem went away when we showed them how to properly switch languages in the app.
Game creators/designers as artists - not unreasonable.
Sidereal time (365 days on Earth is 366 rotations when viewed from space)
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coin_rotation_paradox
Are you following that we're talking absorbing a 2:30PM dusk to achieve this? That's worse than northern Finland. It's absurd and foolish. Those studies are failing to take northern latitudes' extreme swings into account when trying to legislate timezones...from Barcelona.
Did they open a bug against Chrome with the image file? I feel like any crash on user-provided data is a big deal, always a correctness problem, but potentially a security problem. "We deleted the image so the problem is fixed for us" is OK (I wouldn't waste time writing a blog post about it personally), but I think that Chrome needs to fix this bug.
The issue isn't that the private companies providing solutions aren't good enough. Offloading these social services to for-profit companies incentivizes an abuse of the system for profitability quarter after quarter.

They aren't incentivized to end homelessness. They're incentivized to charge local and state governments more money for less service. They're incentivized to place roadblocks for other solutions to be implemented.

I can't speak for other cities, but in my city, our government is putting $90,000,000 towards tearing down one of the largest forests in our area to build a fake city to train police. All while our homeless population explodes & the only shelters available are volunteer-run and rely on donations.

That $90,000,000 could house every homeless person in our city for 23 months, even at our current market rents. That would be more than ample time to provide employment services, therapy/mental health services, and time to build employment history, savings, and rental history to secure future private housing. Imagine what could be done with lower rental rates.
Percepto Receives FAA Waiver to Operate 30 Drones Autonomously
Man, the popular science stuff I remember ingesting as a young child in the late 70s and early 80s... we were supposed to have the whole solar system colonized by now...
Hate to tell you this but a business cannot thrive if it doesn't innovate. At best, you'll ride on your momentum for a while.
Regarding contemporary archaeology, I was thinking archaeologists of the future may find things like USB disks, HDDs, but it sounds like both of those last < 10 years when unused even above the ground. CDs may be readable I guess.
I'm not Canadian but have many friends and family there having worked and lived there in the past.

I couldn't agree more. The current gov went way overboard with this, and by Google caving they have just guaranteed more of the same. There's no incentive from everyday people anymore for politicians to care about this.

I'm usually pretty in-the-middle on issues, but in this case it seems ridiculous. Google is giving them a valuable service for free by sending traffic their way. If it wouldn't violate neutrality, they should pay Google not the other way around[1]. A quick logic check helps reinforce this: If appearing in the search results were a bad thing for them, then why would these companies hire SEO experts to bolster their search rankings?

[1]: Note this is regarding the "tax" for serving a link, not talking about a full preview or AI summary or something, on which I'm much more sympathetic to the site owners and think they have a legitimate case worthy of debate
Sounds like they have good time management and prioritisation skills. They found the source of the problem and fixed it.
Not everyone has to make a living. The arts are full of recipients of multi-generational wealth that affords them a lifestyle committed to their work. Mind you, this doesn't take a massive fortune: an inheritance of a couple million could last someone a very long time if they're living like a starving artist. Most noteworthy artists have a backstory like this.

But in the off chance that an artist's work becomes noteworthy, suddenly commissions, publishing deals, professorships, etc. become viable vocations.
Mine sucked completely. It is not me at all. I wish I could post images easily to show how far the avatar is from the original.
Interesting, I uploaded a pure white 50x50 png and got this:

> User: Describe this image in the most detailed way possible

> Llama: The image displays a large, mostly white background with some small gray areas. There is also an orange dot on the right side of the scene, which stands out against the predominantly white and gray backdrop.

> User: Is it just a white square?

> Llama: No, it is not just a white square. The image also contains some gray and tan colors as well. It appears to be an abstract art piece with various shades of color, making the overall appearance more interesting than a simple all-white background.
How is that sensible? That allows the manufacturers to get around safety regulations by making the car cost more? That's bananas.
A Debian/Ubuntu status file is a good start (of course you need to dig further for build depends) and helpful enough for "provenance" that I've found it useful at a couple of startups to deploy code as debs packages specifically to be part of that graph - obviously not perfect, but often good enough to go automatically from CVE -> USM -> upstream package -> what part of our code cares about that - someone still has to think about the vulnerability, but it reduces a lot of obvious noise and helps drill down quicker.
There is video of entrances into the Hamas tunnel system in hospital rubble. So at a minimum they were using the hospital for an unintended purpose. How can one have rules of engagement when terrorists to not honor them?
Cython is pretty much Python without bytecode interpreter, translated to C instead, but retaining the object model. That's why it's so slow.

And the reason why the object model is the way it is, is because it's an entrenched part of the Python ABI. Sure, if you break that, you can do things a lot faster - this isn't news, people have been doing this with projects like Jython and IronPython that can work a lot faster. But the existing ecosystem of packages is so centered on CPython that this approach has proven to be self-defeating - you end up with a Python implementation that very few people actually use.

So, no, it's not because people are "very confused" or "nobody bothered to do it". It's because compatibility matters.
That was the case on some nicer cars when automakers stopped providing spares. But many cars today come with neither a spare nor run-flats. Many now are shipping with a normal tires, an inflator, sealant, and a roadside assistance telephone number.
This is one of America's fundamental ideological and moral turpitudes. There is a lack of integrated, holistic social services that treat people as human beings, with respect, and with genuine concern without first assessing how much money they have or what their needs are. Virtually no social workers go out and ask unhoused people if they're OK or if they need anything. In general, the American attitude blames the individual, divides people, encourages anomie and alienation, abolishes solidarity, frowns on the greater good and commonwealth, and sets lower classes against each other with a cynical, dismissive sentiment like: "If you're poor, then you're trash and don't deserve help because you should help yourself with imaginary bootstraps. So get a job, you lazy, freeloading slob. And don't even complain about being disabled, not having healthcare, mental healthcare, prescription coverage, eyeglass coverage, or dental coverage that most of us wage slaves have to pay for. If you get fired for not having shoes, that's your problem that you should've solved yourself with money and access you don't have."

Disclaimer: I was homeless for 9 years. I also worked MAANGs and major universities off and on.
I feel like this is good advice even if you are not starting out.
> This is just a hit piece which tries to frame scraping whole internet as-is as fair-use, because it's profitable for the AI companies, that's all.

No, the Matthew Lane's argument (the author of the article being Matthew Lane) is that the AI model as a whole cannot be ex-ante assumed to be an infringement on the copyrights to one or works in the training set. Copyright is about the actual works, and infringement is about the similarity between actual outputs by models and existing works by humans.

My argument is that similarity of new works (including AI model outputs) to actual works (not to non-existing works, existing styles, or theoretical aggregations of multiple works) is a prerequisite to infringement. From an article about the substantial similarity test in the US [1]:

> To win a claim of copyright infringement in civil or criminal court, a plaintiff must show he or she owns a valid copyright, the defendant actually copied the work, and the level of copying amounts to misappropriation.[1][3]

In order to get an infringing output, the user usually has to include a reference to an existing author or an existing work in the prompt. Sometimes that's not the case (which I've worried about with respect to Copilot), but in order to damn the model as a whole, you would have to establish that in over some percentage of cases the model produces infringing outputs for prompts which don't reference a particular author (whether individual or collective), a particular work, or a style strongly associated with a single or a few authors.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Substantial_similarity
Call it a “lie”.
Taken in the context of Google as a whole, this seems like pretty good evidence that Google does not consider itself to benefit from monopoly power like the DOJ claims. If Google did have a monopolistic advantage, they could refuse to pay the link tax. Clearly they're worried about losing market share to other search engines.

[usual disclaimer: I work at Google but on nothing related to search or policy]
>I don't know, take your own conclusions

The API cost of the game is getting noticeable, but I think you were just being naive about LLM limitations, there is simply no way that it can answer all questions simply by memorization. A simpler way is to just invent a programming language and ask the model to solve problems with it, at least I don't have to write down the position of a game ahah

Also I have trained models to do additions in the past, I removed many possible combinations of digits to show in the dataset, but after training the model was able to solve all of them, meaning it learned the algorithm and not just memorized the answers, I did it because a friend of mine thought like you that LLMs just memorize the answers from the dataset and cannot learn, but that is not how they work.

About the game, I realize that I cannot move the queen like in chess, so in this game I will eventually fall into a zugzwang, trying not to move the queen.
Yes, Fort Erie, ON (a bit west, as I say) can also get the same snowstorm trouble.
I just had a look through https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_UTC_offsets, because I thought it was just India and some obscure little islands - but some fairly substantial countries (Iran, Afghanistan, Nepal, Myanmar, Sri Lanka) also have non-whole-hour time zones.
I considered both options for allaboutberlin.com. I want to offer either better search, or personalised advice.

Cost is a huge problem. An immigration lawyer would continuously eat into my personal income. If I don't get state funding to cover it, it makes zero business sense. It would also come with all the liability of a first employee.

A GPT that cites my website, German law and a dozen official websites would be a game changer. It could not give advice, but it could find answers like Phind does. It's just tech, with lower running costs and virtually no obligations (unlike an employee).

I just don't know if the result would be useful and trustworthy enough, and it's very expensive to try.

My conclusion is that I should focus on building a good knowledge base, and when the time is ripe, I can augment it with fancy tech.
The Workbench disk still took a minute or so to load.
While I agree it does a good job, ‘unreasonable’ is a term that’s up to the implementer
Simple video ad-blocking extension that supports lots of video sites
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At the time he said that he was not wrong. There were huge chunks of .s files that did interesting asm things.
I think you forgot "looking at their phone instead of the road."
Study: Vegan Twins Surpass Meat-Eaters in Health Metrics over 8 Weeks
Reminds me of the story I read where the guy's car wouldn't start depending on what flavor of ice cream he picked and when investigated he was right. Some kind of evaporation/vacuum leak or something that was dependent on time and some flavors were farther away in the store and took more time to buy.
Neural patterns differentiate traumatic from sad memories in PTSD
In a very similar situation myself, so for starters best of luck and hang in there.

We're approaching winter and I live in WA so am biased towards going south.

Without getting too detail oriented: southern Utah/Vegas/Arizona-strip area are nice, temperate daytime temps (during winter) and a whole lot to do and explore and relatively cheap. Plenty of national/local/state parks to check out too.

The south east could be nice as well but am less familiar personally
Oh haha, I guess I did. I don't use Plex, but surely you can just turn it off in preferences somewhere?
you will definitely get over 10 years out of most of them as long as theyre not rusting or something
I think a nationwide stat isn’t very useful because it ignores cost of living and the fact that most SWEs are concentrated in particular areas of the country. I think it’s very likely based on this data that software engineering just pays better in all or most regions, but this data is a bit skewed because of confounders.
this is why people shouldn't pipe compressed air in PVC. PVC is rated for 300psi (iirc). However, it derates pretty quickly in cold temperature. If 150psi of air is pressurizing PVC pipe and it ruptures, its going to be a terrible day. Where if water pressurizes PVC pipe and it ruptures, its just a little messy.
Yep. He didn't want to buy it in the end. Once he was forced to, he fired almost everyone to lower overhead as much as possible. He also pulled some heroics in doing so, if you read about the "moving the servers" fiasco, which was an impressively intrepid bit of "getting your hands dirty" getting shit done.

I don't know to what extent he has made or could make it profitable, but I don't think he wants it to die. It dying, though, isn't the worst thing, and here he can turn it into a Braveheart moment to boot, winning hearts and minds -- like mine. I see what he's doing, but I love it; fuck advertisers. They've ruined the Internet. Or, rather, monetization in the abstract has.

It's disgusting to me how he was asked about trying to bend the knee to suits like Iger, turning the platform into some anemic, anodyne corporate candy world of devout Good Behavior, an eternal kindergarten where we're all trapped forever with the advertisers as our mental jailors, since that's how profits can flow most frictionlessly.

What he's doing is stupid -- people's 401ks are on the line. But it's wild how it doesn't seem to bother anyone how that's an argument for spinelessness. It's a New Hampshire license plate "live free or die" moment, and 90% of posters here are advocating for content slavery with tone policing and personal attacks.
Was it actually a Chrome bug though? It only happened when the Grammerly desktop app was installed. My guess is grammerly is doing something sketchy.
If I Die, Please Post This Posthumously
>If Google did have a monopolistic advantage, they could refuse to pay the link tax.

Or maybe they think the engineering work to maintain a whole separate search page, and revenue loss from not including links, is less than the amount they stand to pay.
AWS for ideas, scale the ideas!!
This seems ripe for using "cores" or specialist pipelines/agents to handle stuff like that. I may see what I can scrape together.
Being strong and not delusional is the least risky way to feel strong.
This is dated. There's no rules to founding your own company.

As a non-technical founder I can

A) Get a technical cofounder which takes me weeks to find, dilutes my ownership, and with whom I have no recourse if their work is sub-par (or we end up just not liking/trusting/vibing with each other)

or

B) Build an MVP with any number of offshoring partners in a matter of weeks and for far cheaper (money, time, opportunity cost). If I don't like the work, we can modify the contract, or I can quickly pivot to another team.

This is also true for technical founders as well, to be clear. You can probably do a lot of the business stuff by outsourcing. You can worry about gelling a team once you've got to 1.
Fast and hackable PyTorch native transformer inference
There's a setting for that.

I don't remember it but something like separate spaces for displays.
So I'm not able to delete this message so it seems, but guess I already found a solution to this problem: the observer method, which ironically seems to be also implemented by Redux itself.
There is a weird local optimisation problem where being an excellent programmer can make one a bad software engineer. (Another: unparalleledly excellent Excel skills making one a worse financier.)
I wonder if with a plan like this, the borders would get adjusted a little bit so that the French suburbs of Geneva would follow Swiss time. You see things like this in the US, where for example the Indiana suburbs of Chicago follow Chicago time.
I think sometimes the salary market would disagree with that.

At many companies a sales engineer can make more money than a developer.

Personally I think it’s too nuanced a question to answer generally. Depending on who it is and the context “the right” person in either role can make all the difference.
Cool use case, glad to see txtai [1] is helping (I'm the main dev for txtai).

Since you're using txtai, this article I just wrote yesterday might be helpful: https://neuml.hashnode.dev/build-rag-pipelines-with-txtai

Looks like you've received a lot of great ideas here already though!

1 - https://github.com/neuml/txtai
Show HN: Growfolio – Overview app for all your investments
Hey guys,

I used to track all my investments on a monthly basis using a simple spreadsheet and some basic charts that Google Sheets offered, but at some point I wanted more types of charts for which I needed to perform some data transformations and eventually that led me to building something myself that's also a bit more mobile friendly than a spreadsheet.

I only deployed this recently, and I'm looking for some early feedback. Please give it a try and let me know what you think.

Thanks!
Same here. I didn’t even plan to go into the industry, but kinda just did it because it was the best (or only) option I could think of at the time. I had earlier plans, but they fell through and I was stuck. In retrospect, I could always shift over to doing software later on from something else if I wanted, but doing the opposite seems very limited.
Ask HN: What are some good interview questions to gauge the "culture" at a job?
A while back there was a great thread or comment on this exact question but I've searched and scoured my bookmarks to no avail.

So, I guess I'll make my own thread!

What are some good questions to ask in a job interview to make sure you're not gonna have a bad boss?

What about to make sure the company isn't a nightmare work environment where you'll be putting out fires all the time?

Questions to ask to see if you'll realistically be promoted, things like that...
It’s stupid to propagate messaging regardless of personal intent as others are of other intent which can be triggered by someone else just being stupid.

You’re engaged in vacuous min/max of categories and harm. Who cares about engaging. At the root of it you’re one meat suit whose existence doesn’t matter.

^ keep telling that to the “wrong” person and they might just do something about despite it being a disposable comment on a backwater social media forum
"Seem" only seems to be doing lots of work. Here's a relevant article: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/G_factor_(psychometrics)
I am. What’s your point ?

I know Ireland likes the riches that come with EU membership. They don’t want to return to being a poor country.

It would be a time zone difference, not a partition. Let’s not used such loaded language.

Edit: is the USA “partitioned” or any less united because of multiple timezones?
The nature of each use matters. Not the nature of the user. Not the nature of the user's customers.

The effect of each use matters. Not the net effect of all possible uses.
I'm not sure I agree. I'm not sure I disagree either though. But it seems like it might be a false dichotomy.

For example, with a current gov like Canada, I think they'd be more worried about government action than competitors, and that's plenty of an incentive to get them to pay the money.
You're reliving your childhood trauma. It's OK. We all do it. We just need to learn to recognize it and deal with it as best as we can.

I say this because you seem to take my point personally and are shadow boxing with a point I never made. Did I say "don't send your kid to school"? Did I say "never let your kid in front of a screen"? No, of course not.

There is, for example, a vast difference between playing Xbox with your child vs letting them sit all day in their room on Roblox.

My point is that I see so many people (too many people) use screens as babysitters, work long hours to "provide" and keep their kids in the care of other people all their waking hours without actually spending ANY time with them.

None of those things are objectively bad. It's only bad when you're using them as an excuse to avoid giving children your time and attention because, in reality, you don't actually want children.
The best in terms of coding assistance, and really for anything else, is the original (pre-turbo) GPT-4 used via the API, although this will also be more costly. There are many third-party chat apps that are wrappers around that now if you want a ChatGPT-like experience.

This can also significantly reduce its bias since you are in control of the system prompt. But also, even ChatGPT can be trivially made to behave differently by saying that you're writing a book or making a video game etc, describing a character in it, and then asking it how that character would have responded in such and such situation.
If that case is beyond "who cares?", which I suspect is not, once the user is granted access to the news the first time then they can be given subsequent access regardless of referrer.
It created a backlash because a) it was too popular with AI people hyping "THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!" and people were posting low-effort transformations to the point that it got saturated and b) non-AI people were "tricked" into thinking it was a clever trick with real art since ControlNet is not ubiquitous outside the AI-sphere, and they got mad.