skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I get that the investigators, lawyers and lower-level managers were being encouraged with bonuses to cover-up the Horizon shortcomings, and use settlement offers to browbeat subpostmasters into exhonerating Horizon.

What I haven't learned yet, is why senior management wanted so much to exhonerate Horizon, that they would hand out bonuses to investigators, and to inquiry witnesses who gave "the right" testimony. The Post Office doesn't have a lot of money; it only broke profit in about 2014.

It can't be that the senior management were responsible for commissioning it, and screwed up; most of the people who did the comissioning will have retired. Similarly, the system was comissioned under a Labour government, and nobody from that era is still around. So I suspect it's the civil service, whose policies and cultures can outlive any human.
Blame is counterproductive. The world simply is the way it is, but it is helpful to have a realistic picture of why, and then you can make local modifications that might at least make your own life a bit nicer.

In advertising's case, it's such a huge industry because it works. It moves the needle on purchasers' decisions. You can make it work a little less well on yourself with a few mental habits: never buy on impulse, don't save your credit cards, put time and distance between yourself and the purchase decision, have a rigorous self-directed research process before you open your wallet, learn to skip or tune out ads, go for paid media instead of ad-supported media, etc. And you can make it work for you by taking the other side of trade and getting paid when other people click on ads. But there are 8B+ humans who you don't control, and they will do what they want to do.
So, Paula Vennells's Post Office scandal?
that's strange. I remember watching mkbhd assistant comparison and I thought google had the more capable one
I posted this because I was curious to learn that indeed, aviation companies were doing this.

This type of self-evaluation is pretty common in software, though audits of compliance are also common.

I wonder what sort of scenario might unfold if a company had a team of developers who's sole job it was to test other teams' software in a red-team fashion. I am all too familiar with QA organizations, and the problems in that environment, and am all for developers conducting their own testing as a fundamental part of development, but what if we took it a step further?
Even when you tell it to stop apologising, the first thing it does is apologise. Our jobs are totally safe.
Is this a dramatic fuckup? Because it quite possibly successfully created tens of thousands of listings more or less successfully. This one will probably generate no sales, but were there any consequences for this mistake?
I can imagine but none of these are happening on my Windows PC :shrug:

I'm not saying you are wrong but I can also wrote about anecdotal experiences about Linux and spending hours in the terminal fixing problems, googling forums for hours and such.

But I get it, it's an easy ragebait on HN and works all the time
> Keycloak was good but has too much legacy for 10+ years.

I got curious, actually seems to check out and explains why it's so well documented (but also complex and oftentimes confusing):

> The first production release of Keycloak was in September 2014, with development having started about a year earlier.

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

https://github.com/keycloak/keycloak/releases/tag/1.0.0.Fina...

It's kind of cool to see a project successfully survive for so long.
So they can sell you the AI assistant subscription that will be out later this year.
An annoying thing is if CLI tools don't exit with non-zero if the tool is used incorrectly.

It's pretty standard to print the usage string if the tool is invoked with invalid arguments. However the program should then also exit with non-zero, otherwise it can be inconvenient to use in scripting.
Like an open source Dash (https://kapeli.com/dash). Noice!
I'm too cautious to ever log into my Password Manager on my Windows machine.

It also loves to reboot on its own has no respect for anything I am doing.

dwm.exe and explorer.exe leaking GPU memory for years too. Go to Task Manager > Details > Right click the details column > Add graphics memory. Sort by top users. You'll see that both of these processes are leaking GPU memory like there is no tomorrow.

Nowadays, I always have to kill both and have them respawn before any gaming on Windows.
If you're curated, you're not everything. If you want everything, well, expect everything.
Not quite. The outputs of the models become part of the prompt history of all the models. So they can assist each other. For example, one model might produce a highly technical reply. Then the user can ask for explanations, to be provided by a model with better language capability but less domain expertise.
It depends on the kinds of things you order and how attuned you are to the games they play. If it's all name brand stuff and you are careful to actually order from Amazon and not a store hosted by Amazon it's not bad (although there are a lot of counterfeit goods on the site, in mixed inventory so it can come directly from Amazon even if it was stocked by some other store).

If you're getting commodity stuff from the cheapest vendor, good luck. There's lots of stuff put in there by Chinese shops that's garbage quality, mislabeled, a miniature model of the real thing, etc.
Just a chance? I routinely translate hundred pages of pdfs to greek, in 3 minutes. The translation is far from perfect depending the text and it still needs a human in the loop for corrections, but i couldn't imagine translating a 300 pages pdf to greek by hand.

There is also the translaxy bot on poe.com which i use to translate english or modern greek to ancient greek. Out of this world good translation.

I mean, are humans still employed to translate text? Like an employee doing that job, and only that?
I think you'll find they're a tech company
"Iron Sky 2" featured "Jobsians," a strict religion based on Steve Jobs, that detonates the devices of the Faithful for the Sin of Jailbreaking.

The Modern Mac cultists aren't quite that strict. Yet. Some of the zealots would like to go that way, I'm sure.
A Lesson on Human Suffering from a Kibbutz
I bought a headset. it turned out not to support Bluetooth. upon wanting to return the headset, they set it would not be possible. that was until I found a line in their listing that said it should support Bluetooth.

I am quite sure that line cam. in because somebody just copy pasted the wrong file to the listing.

the merchants will be liable for what they let the LLMs promise on behalf of them.
No, in general, the smallest block of IPv6 addresses you can "own" is /24. You have to pay yearly fees to your RIR (Regional Internet Registry) as an ANS (Autonomous system). Think of it as owning land and paying a land tax.
Your comment reads just like the reviews. Worthless
Not to mention that in order to have that "development enrolled device", you need to first pay Apple a fee and get their permission. Seems to me that would count as an "extra restriction" added on top of the LGPL, which the license does not allow.
There are loads of people who'd be willing to do this at a national lab. The bigger problem is that very few national labs are located in places many young people want to live. For the ones that are (LBL), it's competitive to get a job there.

You're also wrong about the setback and being stuck in that niche. Once you learn the first language, more likely than not you'll have opportunities to continue to grow and develop in the role and learn new things. Most people are pretty adaptable.
I think Amazon is a good platform to buy from when you know exactly what you want, or when you are good at researching and weeding out the crap. People who explore products on Amazon and make quick purchases, or impulsive shoppers in general probably have a bad time.
There are more listings like that one, some are sold by Amazon.
https://amzn.to/41Zf3hS
Rebranded .. I'm getting really annoyed with the same product, different prices, different brand names apparently generated by some China-based anagram generator
lol that you think that's how it works. How many companies have you created? How many jobs?

You hold a pretty naive view of how a business operates.
If this were happening for everyone, Amazon would have a stock market reckoning.

You might be buying off-brand stuff.

But what you'd find at Target or Microcenter, and you'll have a good time.
>The secret is: there is a lot of subsidized housing

Becasue that's what the Vienese people voted for and keep voting for since 1945. So even if you also want to vote yourselves subsidized housing in your city right now, unless you can turn back time to change your city's policies, it's unlikely your own city will be able to buy up over half the private properties in town now, turn them into social housing and then rent them out to you at discount prices today. It will be financial and politicla suicide to do that in today's market anywhere on the planet.

It's also how Vienna is the only city in Austria with so much subsidized housing, with the rest of the country relying on private ownership and private rent, nor can the rest be like Vienna today even if they wished due to the issue mentioned above.

>The cost of non subsidized housing is in line with Hamburg

With lower wages than Hamburg and higher consumer prices.
Piping `find` through `grep` like that is inefficient, find has robust filtering capabilities you can use without the overhead of spawning subshells with pipes and calling another binary like grep.

find . -type f -not -path '*/.git/*' -name "*$1*"
User Manual for the Zuse Z4 Discovered (2020)
That's one interesting project. As someone who relies heavily on collaboration with people using Jupyter Notebook. The most annoying points about reproducing their work are the environment and the hidden state of Jupyter Notebooks.

This does to address directly the second problem. It does however by sacrificing flexibility. I might need to change a cell just to test a new thing (without affecting the other cells) but thats a trade off if you focus on reproducibility.

I know that requirements.txt is the standard solution to the other problem. But generating and using it is annoying. The command pio freeze will list all the packages in bloated way (there is better ways) but I always hoped to find a notebook system that will integrate this information natively and have a way to embed that into a notebook in a form that I can share with other people. Unfortunately I can't see support for something in any of the available solutions (at least up to my knowledge).
We were a Cogent customer for years. Blackhole was there one and only tool for DDoS. Eventually we just left.
> The simple answer would be AI. That’s been the major change in the past year.

What about short term interest rates (in the USA) going from close to 0 to 5 percent over the past 2 years?

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/DFEDTARU

Even if you have no debt, your customers might. And your stock returns are being compared to a risk free rate that has increased rapidly.
Not OP, but I want to see an hour by hour forecast for the day. If there is precip, I want to see an animated active radar view, with forecast frames.

“What’s the weather @ time” is inadequate. I live in California(albeit not on the coast or in the valley).
Even if we had no new developments in AI, the effects of the current SotA would be massive over the next decade. There are myriad tools already built on or incorporating AI to deliver real value.

Ignoring the fact that wild science fiction has become totally mundane within the last 10 years is putting your head in the sand.
I’ve worked with helping beginner students set up their environments a bit. I’m skeptical of the idea of providing too much in the way of custom dotfiles or anything like that. Students will come with their own systems. Mac, or Windows, usually. So a professor or grad student who naturally uses Linux and isn’t really a software deployment expert might have trouble getting a rock-solid portable collection of scripts. It might seem like an odd difficulty for smart and technical people to have, but administrating other people’s systems is a totally different skill from research after all!

More importantly, in a class of a couple hundred, somebody will find a way to get off the happy path. No matter how well you design it. Hopefully they’ll come to a teaching assistant or something, but there’s a good chance they’ll go to YouTube or something instead. In that case, it is best if their installation is as standard as possible.

Also the filesystem problem is such a thing and you have dredged up some feelings, hahaha. In particular, I think operating systems and VSCode have gotten way too good at hiding the fact that the file somebody is editing is, in fact, still in a zip archive. Until they go to save it or run it.
Thanks for the tips!. As for Samsung, agreed. I avoid it for appliances. A relative of mine has a Samsung refrigerator and a large Samsung oven. The fridge has done relatively okay (but far from what its price justifies), but the oven has been a shit show from day one.
> iOS is great. It also “just works”.

Yep. And not just iOS. The way the hardware and software synchronize with each other when you include more devices is just alien. Like when you're using an iPhone with a MBP next to a Mac Mini as well, with a single keyboard/mouse being able to interface in some way or another with all of the devices.

You can pull off some very powerful workflows for this and customize very powerful workflows that benefit the user far beyond just what apps can be installed. Apple is amazing and they're just barely getting started.
When I started playing around with AI applications and learnt about RAG techniques, it took me a while to grok vector databases and was a bit of pain to learn how to set one up. So I built my own little pet project, RagTag [1], which abstracts the vector database behind a simple CRUD API. I simply POST documents to RagTag and they are automatically converted into embeddings and made available to be queried for similarity searches.

[1] RagTag - https://ragtag.weaveapi.com
Based on the past 30 years, I think the safe assumption is that there will not be much nuclear built in the US+Europe in the next 15 years.
It's still in alpha so not that big a deal. Vast majority of users will be on Windows, so perfect for identifying bugs quickly, and then Linux should hopefully get a stable port soon. Personally code primarily on Windows but a good GUI debugger would make me very seriously consider Linux as an option to get finally get away from Microsoft
> OpenAI could presumably add a "did the safety net kick in?" boolean to API responses, and, also presumably, they don't want to do that because it would make it easier to systematically bypass.

Is a safety net kicking in or is the model just trained to respond with a refusal to certain prompts? I am fairly sure it's usually the latter, and in that case even OpenAI can't be sure a particular response is a refusal or not.
It was a problem that workers were getting a bigger share of the profit?
For all the problems gaming on Linux has, I will never again have to suffer through the buffooneries of windows. I finally made the switch when paint3d improperly updated, causing my PC to go straight to the BSOD whenever I opened the start menu, task manager, or the file explorer. How these things connected I will never know, but using powershell to remove paint3d was what ultimately saved my bacon. This was during finals week while I was in college as well, I had to convince multiple professors to give me extensions on papers since I basically could not operate my computer.
I think things are fine as they are. You can get a gist of the subject from the title (at least after dang gets to it). If I want more, the search has been super helpful.

As others have mentioned, there are alternative HN frontends that attempt to do this. I personally would not trust submitter-categorized submissions, especially as more Redditors flee to HN.
Eric is no longer with Microsoft, by the way. He was previously on the C# compiler team. I believe he was at JetBrains when I last looked him up. Looks like his blog "Fabulous Adventures in Coding" is on his website now:

https://ericlippert.com/

(I worked with him briefly in, I think it was, 2005.)
Childcare is universally the cost of a medium quality 1 bedroom apartment in a safe neighborhood, just about everywhere in the US
Or big brown/black cross dresser?
How is this different from the US Postal Inspection Service?
Just so we are clear, lets say israel filed a case against Hamas and won. Then what? The UN going to invade Gaza and destroy them? Or nothing changes and Hamas continues raping and killing? Everyone always says there is another way but not a single person has actually presented one that stops Hamas.

Lets say you have a wife, and 5 kids. Terrorists break into your house and rape your wife and murder 2 of your kids.

There are 2 options presented to you.

1. you can call the military and they will bomb and kill the terrorists but 20 civilians will die.

2. a special team of negotiators and police spend 3 months slowly working with the community to try and get them to give up the terrorists. 80% of the terrorists are caught. 5 police officers die. The rest are free. In the mean time they kill your wife and cripple one of your remaining kids.

Which one do you choose?

All the anti Israel people want Israel to pick option 2, when Israel's responsibility has to be to protect its own.

Also there really is no such thing as international law.
There is only what America allows and does not allow. It may not be fair but thats reality. Those really are the facts on the ground.
I'm definitely not ignorant, because I work directly in this field. The things happening in academia, within my company, and with competitors will blow your mind.

Let's circle back on this soon.
PSI is an interesting bit of cryptography. If I were random Apple engineer, how would I have found it or found a cryptographer to talk to to find it?
Also see the link at the bottom of the page for an English translation by Fredrik Andersson [PDF]

https://nablaman.com/relay/download/Z4.pdf
Good read, but only really gets going at this point:

> Isaacson was appointed CEO at CNN in July 2001. During the first phase of the war in Afghanistan, he sent his staff a memo, warning them not “to focus too much on the casualties or hardship in Afghanistan.” Every mention of people being vaporized in their homes by U.S. bombers had to be “balanced” with reminders that these were the people responsible for 9/11. “You want to make sure people understand that when they see civilian suffering there, it’s in the context of a terrorist attack that caused enormous suffering in the United States.” Later, he told PBS that he wasn’t really so jingoistic: CNN initially tried reporting on the casualties in Afghanistan, but then they received some pushback. “You would get phone calls,” he said. “Big people in corporations were calling up and saying, you’re being anti-American here.” So he caved.
Just fire up a news reader. Pretty much half of the content pushed is some sort of affiliate links assembled into an article/review
the police in America
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38971012
Looks cool!

Have you looked into WASM? Something like a jupyterlite [0] alternative for marimo?

And are there plans to integrate linting and formatting with ruff? [1]

[0] https://jupyterlite.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

[1] https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff (ruff format is almost 100% compatible with black formatting)
PostgreSQL 17: part 3 or CommitFest 2023-11 Review
I have windows still for occasional gaming and the random reboots are just infuriating. How is this remotely acceptable for an operating system to do. I feel like it happens even when I explicitly tell the OS to sleep. And then I wake it up and everything has been closed. Some apps attempt to restore state, but never really works.
Wow that is a pretty long list: https://careers.twitter.com/en

Wonder if all of them are real?
Error admitted.

Now about the point, which is "How much should we be willing to spend on something that may be life-or-death for much of humanity?"

Because, again, $760 billion in fossil fuel subsidy. A tenth of that for renewables.
Anime is going digital. Fans are wary
"The weather in Nijmegen is..."
Would you like to tell us how the NYSE is corrupt?

Or do they just get tarred with 'Well, they work in finance, of course they are all crooks' brush?
Search Amazon for "Whetstone". You'll find tons of quality products from legitimate brands, mixed indiscriminately with the exact same dropshipped trash item repeated over and over for countless pages. Amazon has been entirely enshittified.
As physicalists there is no bottom up or top down. The mental process of learning 2+2=4 doesn’t cause the physical process or vice versa. They are different ways of talking about the exact same thing. Mental processes don’t ’have Physical effects’, they just flat out are physical processes.

So of course ideas and thoughts can ‘cause changes in our bodies’, they are changes in our bodies.

Similarly when you talk about computers and software, bear in mind that software is a physical phenomenon. It exists in the computer as a physical pattern of electrical charges in memory circuits. It has physical effects in the system because it is physical.
AI girlfriend bots are flooding OpenAI's GPT store
Nuclear energy may not kill birds, but it may kill fish in already overheated rivers. Which is also one reason why they've been turned off in France, where the problem started occurring in recent years and probably won't stop occurring due to global warming.
You could probably already make something compelling like a small myst-style game that uses largely static assets with existing tools, taking advantage of being able to render real world environments with high fidelity.

However for more typical games there's still a long way to go. Most of the research focus has been towards applications where existing mesh-based approaches fall short (eg. photogrammetry), but this isn't really the case for modern game development. The existing rendering approaches and hardware have largely been built FOR games and leveraged elsewhere.

Rebuilding the rendering stack around an entirely new technology is a tall order that will take a long time to pay off. That being said, the technology is promising in a number of ways. You even have games like Dreams (2020), which was built using custom splat rendering to great effect (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u9KNtnCZDMI).
>Dogfights are not happening regularly in Ukraine.

They are happening far more regularly than US Air Force doctrine calls for, which is never. Posessing total air superiority is baked into nearly every decision.
I believe Google is heading in the wrong direction with their current approach. In my opinion, integrating LLMs and add function calling would be a significant improvement. This integration would enable the assistant to perform more complex and integrated tasks, and facilitate more meaningful conversations. Especially in scenarios where the user’s request isn’t clear or it’s uncertain which application to invoke and how, this advanced interaction capability could be incredibly beneficial.
Same goes for his first sentence and it only goes down from there. Its badly written and reads like someone had a really exciting one night stand with their thesaurus while writing it.

>> Everywhere Musk sets foot, the result is this rubble of human language, this ruin of its expressive powers, this entropic dissolution of all poetic forms. sic.