skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a DBA I feel is this a bit of hand-waving… sure you can say your database model has logical referential integrity: “Parent 1:N Child” but without a referential constraint at the database level it’s just documentation.
Worked in Kiwi, which is a Chrome derivate
No, I'm not a machine. I'm the only one who can do the work, so maybe listen to me when I tell you it's a bad idea.
I am 100% sold on developer experience being key for fast iteration and high quality software operations, but the actual research cited here seems fairly flimsy. It was based on a web survey by DX (love them by the way), that had 219 completed responses and asked likert scale (1-5) questions about how they felt.

Good developer experience increases self-reported productivity. I do suspect that it correlates with actual productivity and business outcomes, especially around reducing the productivity loss that comes from error remediation.
Part of it is low-hanging fruit, certainly. Euler lived at a time when it was still possible to "know all math". That breadth of knowledge is simply not possible for a single human anymore; the discipline of mathematics is orders of magnitude larger. Comparable mathematicians today like Erdős and Terence Tao collaborate because they really can't learn the intricate details of every corner of math, so they collaborate with people who work in those corners instead. I think these are all people that have a deep understanding of the interconnected structures within math, and that makes them incredibly productive. I'm not going to try to compare the "level of genius" between Euler, Erdős, and Tao (although I think the latter two would readily claim Euler wins), but once you have a gift like that, there's a big difference between having all of mathematics in your head and not.
I wouldn't want to be preserved digitally at all, but at least as a "zombie brain" you wouldn't be subjected to the eternal purgatory a full working copy of your "consciousness" would be. This short story keeps coming back to me ever since I read it a year or so ago:

https://qntm.org/mmacevedo

No eternal digital life to me, thanks.
I've tried updating it to 2024: https://gist.github.com/boppreh/3b88231b7af15af54d292963f3d7...
>What does trusted really mean?

I agree; "trusting" third-party/remote code or not frankly went out the window with the bathwater including baby when we moved on to Web "JavaShit" 2.0, or was it 3.0.

Feels like we're in a worse security hellhole than we ever were with Flash or ActiveX back in the day, frankly.
> If you are given the option of taking one lottery ticket or two lottery tickets, is it dishonest to say that taking two lottery tickets would increase your odds of winning by 100% over taking just one?

Not in that particular case, because no one would believe in an increase of 100% (although it would still be preferable to say that it doubles your chances of winning). But if you're at a slot machine and you can put in an extra dollar for a 10% extra chance to win the jackpot, and in fact you chances increase from 0.001% to 0.0011%, would you think that's honest or scummy?

>They can be used to convey overall probability, but also a change in probability.

They can be. They shouldn't be used this way because it lends itself to miscommunication.
I guess. There's a lot of details we don't know that would change the calculus on this.

To use a analogous workflow, it could be like saying, "It's pointless to shoot video in 10-bit log if it's going to be displayed on Rec.709 at 8-bits." It completely leaves out available transforms and manipulations in HDR that do have a noticeable impact even when SDR is the target.

Again, we can't know if it's important given the information that's available, but we can't know if it's pointless either.
Accidental? https://www.nlm.nih.gov/nativevoices/timeline/229.html
Confessions from the SF resident who towed 99 cars in 7 months
Zed, a collaborative code editor, is now open source
This feels like an uncreative statement though, as there are many different ways to use this data.

For example, what if an engineering manager needs to convince finance for headcount to hire a devex employee?
The Mac turns 40: How Apple's rebel PC almost failed again and again
I could see a future where this works really well. It doesn't seem to be the case right now though.

The "super resolution" showcased in the video seemed almost identical to adjusting the "sharpness" in any basic photo editing software. That is to say, perceived sharpness goes up, but actual conveyed details stays identical.
I'll pay the subscription provided HP pays me, in turn, to rent the desk space that the printer lives on in my home office.
The US is one of the only jurisdictions in the world to use the plea bargain, and it uses it so much more than even the others that do that it’s absurd.

And in most other places where it’s even an option it’s subject to much more rigorous scrutiny and pushback than here.

It will never go away here without a lot of effort, because prosecutors love it because they get to hype their “conviction rates” for re election. There are huge swathes of evidence of people pleading out while factually innocent because they can’t afford the cost (public defenders aren’t incentivized here - you need your own counsel), stress, inconvenience, and beyond.

Plea bargains, as implemented in the US, are a huge system drive by perverse incentives.
Exactly. People freaking out over EV infrastructure haven't done the math - nearly all first world home electric hookups are fine for charging a couple of EVs
Non-Materialist Physicalism
>I don’t think it’s coincidental that both 4X games and traditional pornography have been primarily aimed at men.

>As a millennial cis white man disillusioned with war, nation-states, and toxic masculinity, I find that there is a transgressive thrill in virtually enacting the kind of ruthless world conquest that allegedly has no place in the world today. I salve my guilt in such playthroughs by selecting underdogs from history, imagining a world where the Maya, for example, last until the postmodern era and conquer Washington, D.C., the center of contemporary military and economic hegemony.

White savior roleplays as Mayan for "good" reasons.
I feel like the people in that issue are doing something wrong. I've never unintentionally started a review instead of submitting a comment. I feel the buttons are pretty clear about which does what.
In this case, it's not just a flag. Unless you're going through the Mozilla build system, in which case it kind of is. But what's actually happening is that it compiles the browser once, then runs it against some very small examples while collecting profiling data, then recompiles it while using the profiling data to guide optimization. That part about running the browser in the middle is what makes it complicated. (It can't do that when cross-compiling, for example.)
They will still be able to access the data... using secret laws this time.
Zed is now open source
Do you really think there should be no limit to the state refusing to protect citizens from violent criminals?

Here are a few recent examples from my city:

Woman’s violent stalked is let out of prison early. Goes and threatens woman, who calls police. Prosecutors decline the case. Goes back and beats up woman. Prosecutors decline the case. Goes back and murders the woman[1].

Woman is caught on video trying to murder someone with a gun. Plea bargain is given where she serves no time. Soon afterwards she’s charged with murdering someone else[2]. Little to no time for trying to murder someone with a gun is surprisingly common here.

A guy is found with an illegal gun, but judges toss the case because they said the police officers weren’t allowed to ask if the man had a gun before approaching him. Days later, he’s charged with murder[3].

Man shoots several people and murders one in a mass shooting. Is arrested, but judge let’s him out before trial. Over the course of the next two years, he’s arrested several times for other crimes, but is still allowed to walk around free awaiting trial (this is a mass shooter!). Finally is arrested again after two separate shooting incidents, including shooting a gun into a house with a baby inside[4].

Violent criminal with a long history commits an armed robbery with a gun, but it allowed to walk free awating sentencing even after another judge said he was too violent to be released. Skips out of sentencing for weeks, then stabs a woman to death.[5]

It actually took me a while to dig these up, because I just had to go from memory about local cases I came across the past couple of years, and these things aren’t well documented or reported on (I had to go to Bing to find an local article about the mass shooter who’s been allowed to walk around committing crimes for years, because Googling his name didn’t bring up articles). It’s fine to say we should err on the side of innocence, but at some point you’re erring on letting violent criminals murder people.

[1] https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/dc/stalking-murder-...
[2] https://dccrimefacts.substack.com/p/call-them-they-wont-do-a...
[3] https://www.washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/2023/08/25/dc-murder...
[4] https://www.wusa9.com/article/news/local/maryland/gerald-tho...
[5] https://www.fox5dc.com/news/woman-stabbed-to-death-inside-iv...
You can encrypt S3 buckets/files inside your buckets. By default buckets are encrypted.
I wish those doorbell cameras would blur the background in such a way that passersby and neighbors' houses don't show up in their video. If this was the case it wouldn't matter much whether people or the manufacturer itself share the video.
Quick ctrl-F reveals no mention of the word "grape" or "barley" in the article.

Nobody is surprised that genetically-similar grapes grown in different regions and converted to wine using different processes taste different. Same goes for barley and beer, apples and cider, et al. Why should we be surprised at all that it also happens with coffee?

Plus, small genetic differences can result in large physiological differences in the actual organism. Just look at broccoli and cauliflower, for example. Or domestic dogs, or humans.
David Graeber: To Have Is to Owe
Whether or not you review your deps code is on you, it doesn't make it untrusted. You're trusting them whether you do the due diligence to see if that trust is warranted or not. Untrusted means code that comes from outside your system, like 3rd party extensions to your app and is presumed to be completely broken and actively malicious and nonetheless shouldn't crash your own program or reveal sensitive data.
I'm not telling you what you should or shouldn't do. I'm pointing out a few facts including that your viewpoint is well over 200 years old, that specifically Kant addressed it and influenced the entire discussion around it, that it is clear you haven't considered his or any other philosophers rebuttal to it.

To give an example, it would be like you were talking about gravity and saying that Newton was right. Then someone mentions Einstein, and you respond that you couldn't be bothered understanding the general theory of relativity because the math is too hard.

I mean, no one is saying you should read Einstein, just that Einstein had some things to add to the ideas of gravity that are worth considering. And if you want any theory of gravity that you have baked up on your own to be taken seriously, you will find that others will expect you to show some familiarity with his theories. And further, there is a wealth of material on his theories that does not require you to engage directly with the esoteric math.

The same is true about Kant (although, to be fair this is philosophy and not physics, so he didn't supplant Descartes in the same way Einstein did Newton). He added explicitly to the question about the bounds of knowledge with respect to experience. So if you are making claims about that subject then it is not unreasonable to expect that you have at least some familiarity with his contribution.
>It's hard to see that the ability to also hear will make them not able to participate in anything.

If they're hearing they won't understand the deaf community, nor need it, and will miss out on what their parents and other community members valued so much
Ask HN: What are some interesting articles you've read recently?
In the Horizon Post Office case in the UK[1], over 700 individuals were convicted based on false accounting data.

I can't find what percentage of that total pleaded guilty, but I did find[2]: "Of the 39 successful appellants in the Post Office Scandal, 35 had pleaded guilty to at least one charge against them."

Personally, I'm not feeling 100% confident in the adversarial system right now.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Post_Office_scandal
[2] https://evidencebasedjustice.exeter.ac.uk/false-guilty-pleas...
LLM's are surprisingly good at giving advice about minor personal problems and social situations, probably on par with a newspaper advice columnist. It's not therapy but that doesn't mean it's not useful. The main problem is it's relentlessly positive and it's not going to give you 'tough love' advice, so if you're really a mess you're not going to hear what you need to hear.
Howdy, Gabe from Zenfetch here.

Thanks for sharing this, markdownload looks super useful. I use obsidian myself and have tried a few bookmarks managers. They are all great, though I often find myself forgetting information from a few months back unless I actively build networked thought.

We built Zenfetch so that I can offload that work and have Zenfetch remind me of important information when I need it. Today that's done through emails and remind me prompts, and we have plans for helping recall more information in the near future :D
To mine crypto ofc. Why do you think?
The US doesn't do government-owned (except in exceptional circumstances). For one, they would be sued by the shareholders (unfair seizure) and competitors (unfair competition). It also is not clear that the government acquiring something would make it run better.
Why are so many EV charging stations broken in California?
The hearing community excluding deaf people is about a million times more common
Here’s a video showing the sort of geolocation task the Bellingcat tool is intended for: https://youtu.be/GqKNKQ02pjY?si=DyAB3YZzl3gJUzT9
That is pretty cool, great link. I might get one myself..!
> But if you're at a slot machine and you can put in an extra dollar for a 10% extra chance to win the jackpot, and in fact you chances increase from 0.001% to 0.0011%, would you think that's honest or scummy

Casinos in general are scummy, but I can't fault with the phrasing. What's the threshold at which the world is allowed to use percentages in the way they're meant to be used, without having to be accused of being dishonest?
This isnt a traffic stop. Companies of size have daily relationships with law enfocement. While they certainly have obligations to customers, we cannot expect companies to be aggressively confrontational in every situation.
> There is certainly no way to recover Marcus Aurelius just from his writing no matter how much fancy AI is thrown at it; it is simply mathematically impossible.

Without addressing whether I agree with your conclusion or not, I disagree that this is a rigorous argument. The question isn't how much complexity the text processing machine that was the Original Marcus has, it's how much of that complexity was unique to OM. We have a large amount of information about modern humans, and a good chunk about historical humans. You would need to believe not just that OM requires many times more information than the hundreds of kilobytes we have, but that the OM delta patch to standard human or period-adjusted human /also/ has more information that the hundreds of kilobytes we have. I'm not sure it's obvious that humans are that interesting or that different, even interesting humans.
Note that YouTube is really bad for these demos due to the re-compression, even in zoomed in stills.
The underlying model is created for webgpu, not to mention the feasibility of running LLM with webgpu, read more here: https://webllm.mlc.ai/
* yes, roughly the same Latin, and only in N. Africa & the Western European provinces, not the eastern provinces
I suppose I could be called DevOps, and I've always seen that as part of the job - making the infrastructure as easy for the devs to work with as possible. They've got their own specialities to worry about; infrastructure shouldn't be one of them. I've heard the role called somewhat derogatorily "helpdesk for devs", but that is part of the job, and I embrace it. I also embrace "yaml wrangler" - it's not my favorite thing to do, but it does sometimes need wrangling. I suppose I've always seen the role as a generalist one who has some understanding of the overall system, and how to glue (or duct tape) it all together.
This should be a legal requirement.
Is this a new shitcoin? Every time I see blockchain and especially DAO, that's what I think. I'm not saying it is, but these are usually a money-grab by a big-name. So I always approach these projects with much skepticism. How does this actually accomplish its mission by "enhancing the sustainability and integrity of the software supply chain"?

If you did see mass adoption, how would this change things?

Show me the world you see.
Much of science involves the eliminate of false positives (this is a great example).

Throughout my career as scientist (I'm an ex-scientist now) and machine learning, I came to the conclusion that false positive rates must be kept extremely low for people to trust the system, because of the consequence of false positives.
Well that's just baseless speculation.
Lies, Damn Lies and Analog Inputs (Comparing ADCs on ESP32, Pico and Arduino)
Win probabilities are not ratios between magnitudes of desirable and undesirable outcomes. They are the fraction of total possible outcomes that are desirable. Otherwise a 1/3 win probability would be 1/2 and a 9/10 win probability would be 9.

One number never fully captures the reality. If I have a net worth of 1 penny and I earn a second penny, it is 100% true to say I've doubled my net worth. It also doesn't tell the full story.

If a coach can take an action that would move the win probability from 0.01% to 1%, it would be malpractice to not do so, and correct to say they've increased their win chances by a factor of 100. It's also correct to say they're probably going to lose.
This isn't about "change", they just removed some essential
functionality that I use daily since 1995.

Besides from being used to it, it is also required for my work to have
wide, labeled, ungrouped application buttons instead of icons that are
oftentimes barely distinguishable.
Office mandates don't help companies make more money, study finds
An AI that can execute (all forms of) logic perfectly seems like an obviously useful approach since it is largely (entirely?) domain agnostic, and can fill the gap humans are not able to for cultural reasons.

In my experiments, GPT-4 is already extremely capable in this regard.
You can make any chat you want by saving the last message, e.g. if you just need a friendly chat bot, you can create that as well.
Do you think that in 1990 two loud and pushy black women could have persuaded 10 other men to give in?
Cochlear implants actually are kind of miracle devices. With early implementation, deaf children can have perfect speech and pretty good hearing (not perfect). We are at the point where denying your child speech and hearing is a choice.

My son is deaf, with a CI in one ear and hearing aid in the other. If you couldn't see them, you wouldn't think there was anything different about him.
There was also plenty of tapestry hanged everywhere. Tapestry making was elevated, in France at least, to the level of a royal manufacture.
The "Indirect put downs" are mostly misclassified. I'm surprised that a unicyclist has no sense of humor, and the fully grown adult has no sense of banter. It seems that the author has a chip on his shoulder against men.

Indirect put-downs:

“You must like living dangerously”
“Odd things you find on cycles”
“And what were your other birthday presents?”
“Is it a new form of transport then?”
“I suppose it saves on tyres”
“You park your bike for two minutes and that’s what you are left with”
Maybe this works better for you: https://www.autohotkey.com/boards/viewtopic.php?p=371022#p37...

The nice thing on Windows is that the UI can be uniformly manipulated that way.
I don't think it needs to be confrontational to say "no" when it's not required by law. In the US we have been led to believe that it's confrontational to stand up for your rights to police (e.g. to deny IDing yourself when asked without being detained, etc in most states).
seems to me that you might want quality control on those defense/weapon systems. if the rot is this bad in one part of the company like as not it is just as bad on the govenrment contract side as well.
I haven't read any Marucs Aurelius, so my impression might be off, but the way the AI speaks feels... I don't know, like a British person, or some American from an older time? It keeps saying "my dear" which feels very incorrect. I studied Latin in school, so maybe I'm more used to the translationese and odd grammar you see with that (like here - although this is also an older translation so you get some of that older english vibe https://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/2680/pg2680-images.html)

I'm guessing this was trained on a certain translation of his works, but I think part of the fun of speaking to a bot would be to replicate that sort of language barrier feeling.
The paper: https://www.science.org/doi/10.1126/sciadv.adj3608
I would definitely pay more for an iPhone for Apple to hire more lawyers to (legally) obstruct law enforcement requests
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RStZ73GpU8E
It doubt it'll ever be argued for doorbells. Security cams, that's another story.

A fact is: nobody takes care of this, so I cannot feel very bad for the police asking for the data.
>Is there any chance that the lack of US regulations will, at some point, cause the general populations to flee the US rather than deal with tech companies monitoring and controlling every aspect of your life?

Wow, your witty riposte really got 'em, eh? But wouldn't

>I know you are, but what am I?

be shorter to type? Or, even better,

>no u
Tell HN: Truth has made me lonely
I feel lonely. I don't have much true friends, if any. I lost my job. I've gotten afar from my family connections.

All that due to finally being honest about things, and about my life.
I say that when on the one hand, I do feel sorry for being lonely, and maybe a shred of regret for me choosing unconventional measures. On the other hand, I'm in somewhat at peace with myself because I know I chose the truth over untruth.

And this has made me very lonely, at least currently. because I was confronting with situations in which only if I would lie to myself and others I would keep that status. But I chose not to lie and prefer personal freedom, love to what I do, and to move on in life.

Do you ever feel the same, that by doing what seems right you end up feeling extremely lonely against others?

It seems to me that a lot of people aren't lonely, but they are living in a lie. I hope to connect with others who believe in the truth, but that seems much harder.
For context, assuming by JavaShit Web 3.0 you meant JavaScript:

Flash and ActiveX were proprietary technologies that often required users to install plugins or additional software on their devices. These plugins operated with high levels of access to the system, which made them a significant security risk. They were notorious for being frequently exploited by attackers as a way to run malicious code on users' machines.

In contrast, JavaScript is a core part of the web and is executed within the browser in a sandboxed environment. This means that JavaScript operates with limited access to the system's resources, reducing the risk of system-level security breaches.