skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is how you persuade citizens to accept widespread surveillance.

If people know that if they get hit by a car or robbed or something like that none of the witness will talk to the police they are going to be way more inclined to support more surveillance.
It's worth saying that 1G is heavy acceleration to maintain, nothing "mere" about it. When you run the numbers the amount of energy involved basically adds up to needing a rocket made entirely of antimatter, and a similar mass of 'normal' matter to react with.

Keep in mind that when talking about long-distance journeys in space under any sort of constant acceleration, the numbers are generally in thousandths of 1G.
Lots of intelligent comments and I'm just here finding it scary.
How good could a Canadian spy really be lol?
True, but the mix of black tea with lemon and sugar was overkill. It cost me a lot.
> * it allows them to bleed Russians for it,*

The scale of it is astounding. In the past few weeks, it has been a wave every hour or two, sometimes faster, with 5 to 20 vehicles a wave; minesweepers and a 2:1 bmp to tank ratio. Lots of troops and they barely get anywhere. It is horrid. The only real breakthrough that the Russians have made was through a long waste pipe into town. They rushed a ~150 people through after smaller groups, but those mostly ended up cut off from any resupply with the AFU having retaken their 3rd, main line of defense in that area. Destroyed a massive Russian column in that too.
I built out a few utilities as experiments. One app linked to Salesforce to query/analyze sales data. Another that reads our help documentation and gives instructions via chat.

The last app, the only one that was deployed anywhere, is https://catchingkillers.com This app is a simple murder mystery game where the witnesses and the killer are ChatGPT bots. The first two stories are complete and active, the third is not complete yet. The first story of the working two is taken from another murder mystery group game https://www.whodunitmysteries.com/sour.html. The second story was highly influenced by ChatGPT.

It's a bit rough because I didn't spend too much time on it, but if anyone does signup to play, I'd love to hear feedback.
Ketida: Open-source single source book production software
`import Y from X` is a terrible language design decision, established by the JavaScript ecosystem. It should be along the lines of `import X.Y` or `from X import Y` so that autocomplete tools can assist you.
If you need a uuid v7 right now you can get one here: https://uuidv7.app/
It certainly makes "you are helping a victim" not a safe time to talk to them. He thought he was helping a victim, instead he was made a new one.
Wow. I like aged cheese but that is a bridge too far.
That is precisely the point that you are replying to.
Oversight Board Upholds Meta's Decision in Altered Video of President Biden Case
21% of the DoD's PROCUREMENT budget, not it's entire budget.

DoD 2024 budget request: $886b[1]

DoD 2023 procurement budget: 163.7b[1]

Procurement budget is 18% of total budget.

21% of procurement budget is $34.3b

That means that means that if the percentages still stood at the 2020 numbers then Boeing would account for *3%* of the 2024 DoD budget.

1. https://www.airandspaceforces.com/pentagon-leaders-2024-budg...
A fun fact about this essay. It was published after Anthony’s mother made an unsolicited submission of it to David Remnick, the editor of The New Yorker.

> Bourdain began his ascent as a writer and public personality when his mother sent a manuscript to me more than twenty years ago. Like any editor, I receive many unsolicited manuscripts, and each one carries a message: ignore this at your peril; brilliance could await. I read Bourdain’s piece and started laughing almost immediately.[0]

I was fortunate enough to get to see Anthony retell this story during an interview at The New Yorker Festival, shortly before his passing.

[0] https://www.newyorker.com/books/double-take/sunday-reading-r...
I'm confused. You hand over an ill formed comparison function to qsort and it does not behave as expected. What did you expect?
Judging by some of the reactions on this thread, GitHub would do well to make an official post explaining the situation, as well as the processes and mitigations in place for users affected by such suspensions. Regardless of the technicalities behind making backups or the decentralized nature of git, GitHub is a trusted service and needs to maintain that trust.
Nerds in Teslas Keep Getting Caught Driving with Apple Vision Pro
My girlfriend in high school had no idea what she wanted to major in, no idea what career she wanted, no idea what her future looked like at all. Anytime I'd ask her, she'd get upset, because she didn't want to stress about it before she had to.

We eventually broke up, and she went to college, changed her major 3 times, spent the whole time drunk at parties, and graduated with a degree with a relatively limited scope of jobs. She graduated 4 years ago, during which she's worked as a receptionist, a dog groomer, and a call center rep.

We shortly got back together as she was graduating college, and I encouraged her to apply for jobs for which her degree would come in handy. Every single time, she refused, because she "wasn't qualified enough" even though she had her Bachelors in what they were asking for.

I say all this to say that I think many kids are corralled into college without an actual end goal in mind. They go because it's what they're supposed to do. In my anecdotal experience, there isn't much thought about intending to learn or leveling up some ability.
Show HN: Threadscribe.ai (BETA) – AI-Powered Slack Thread Summarization
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Small time investors have zero say. Large investors are in the same social class as the ceo and scratch each others backs.
Snap, the owner of Snapchat, is laying off about 10% of its global workforce
I don't think Deno itself is going anywhere if the startup fails, there's also self hosting.

It's be tough, but going the other way to Node as a transition is entirely possible with relatively minor effort.
This is the confluence of enshittification and the tyranny of the marginal user.
request - i want an LLM tool that can process raw text or email and update or create salesforce records.

Example 1: i get an email from a potential customer that says they want [product A]. I can forward that email (or call notes) to salesforce (or somewhere) and it will understand the preference and the relevant customer and update that customer's profile.

Example 2: In a B2B context, lets say my customer is a company, and there is a news article about them. I could forward a link to the article to the LLM and it would understand that the article is about a customer, and append that article and key info about it to my saleforce record for that customer. The news item becomes an object that is linked to that customer (for call context, better sales targeting, profiling, etc).

Can someone help me build that?
In theory this is what the diploma or GED is already for. These are all certified by the state to show you've completed a certain amount of education to a certain level of quality. What is an SAT or ACT supposed to be on top of all that honestly? Really its tackling a symptom of colleges for whatever reason no longer trusting the states own education departments' diploma or GED. Which is damning considering these schools point to these same states accreditation as a quality measure for their own programs, forgetting that if the diploma is untrustworthy then so are these state accreditation...
I'm absolutely certain at this point that this video, the video of the kid on the subway, and the guy in the Tesla are all some sort of inorganic viral marketing campaign on Apple's part because they are also aware of how narrow and niche the market for this device is and are terrified it'll have low uptake.

It isn't open and interoperable with a bunch of other software like the Quest or Reverb, you can't game on it because there's no SteamVR support, and the projected use cases are ridiculous gimmicks. It's also got a much narrower FoV than initially advertised and is limited to Apple's walled garden. For productivity, why would you pay $3500 for this when you could buy two huge 4K monitors and an impressively powerful PC/Mac instead and still have about 500 bucks left over?

It's all so weird. It's like they're trying to make it seem normal to just use this thing out and about when the best applications of VR are interactive simulations and games that are best used indoors in controlled environments. Not a single mixed reality device (Google Glass, HoloLens) by Apple's competitors has ever made this type of use case work, and I have little faith that Apple has somehow overcome all of the obstacles that Google and Microsoft faced.
China's Policy Failures
I built an app to make dealing with Jira less painful. It caches Jira tickets in a SQLite database, then uses GPT-3.5 to translate natural language queries into SQL that it then executes. It also uses Ollama/Mixtral to summarize Jira tickets and GitHub PRs. It can generate a summary of a single Jira ticket with its associated GitHub PRs or a whole sprint. It's written in Python and runs in the terminal.
There are numerous collaboration tools aside from Github that can be used, though.
Well that depends on the ejection velocity. If you could shoot it out at close to speed of light, you'd need much less.
I quit my job and became self-employed ~6 months ago. I work as a freelance developer and I focus on 3D graphics and computer-vision, but I occasionally take on other projects if they are interesting.

I find jobs on Upwork and I do cold reach out on LinkedIn and via email. So far, I managed to keep myself pretty busy and I landed a few pretty good projects. I consider that a success since I went into the freelancing world not knowing much about it.

It's hard, especially with the uncertainty of where the next project/money is coming from, but I can't imagine going back to a full-time employment anytime soon.
This isn’t the 90s. Most hardware is way over-specced for the data sizes most people are dealing with.

The number of use cases which are too heavy to finish in hours but small enough to fit in a single instance is pretty limited.
> While I'm likely to fly on a 737 in the future

The 737 is arguably the safest airliner ever produced. You are specifically talking about a specific line of 737, the 737MAX.
I'm no fan of Musk, but it's hard to argue that SpaceX hasn't been revolutionary, to the point where I question if there's anyone else who could have pulled that off. Moving focus to The Boring Company or Hyperloop feels a little like whataboutism. No one succeeds at everything they do. Musk is in the unique (and lucky, for him) position that he can throw a lot of darts and lose a lot of money, but keep on going even if many of his bets don't work out.

And I don't think the usual "throw shit at the wall until something sticks" thing applies to Musk. Certainly he's had some things that slid to the floor, but he hardly has an "unlimited" supply of darts. And even if his finances were infinite, he still only has 24 hours in a day, and can only focus on a certain number of things. By and large, the things with a lot of his focus do seem to be doing pretty well.

Twitter is clearly a huge blind spot for Musk; while I'm not going to dismiss it out of hand, it does seem like an outlier. Regardless, it's still running, somehow, when I expected it to have been shut down by the middle of last year. While I know people who have stopped using it, I know more people who still use it and get value out of it, regardless of the negatives since Musk bought it.
I was at a Valentine's day church activity. We were decorating cookies, I sat down at a table to talk to a woman I thought was pretty. At the and when moved onto the next activity, the only person other than me to show up was a different woman at the same table.

We've been married 17 years next month.

Note: I love these stories (and I love mine too), but it's important to remember that these are all just meet-cutes. They don't represent key components to a good relationship. It seems like the thing they have in common is socializing.
We've built https://agentgold.ai/chat, which is an interface to chat with youtube creators about their content.

It looks through past transcripts, topics, view counts, and other metadata so users can quickly learn what a Youtuber is all about.
I’m just stating my opinion that I find these abbreviations annoying, yes. They are so unintuitive that unless someone explicitly calls out what it’s abbreviating, you probably wouldn’t pick up on it (e.g. the MDN page for Accessibility) and just leaves people confused (like me!). I suspect there’s a reason AccessKit isn’t named `a11yKit`
So far, 100% through referrals from my past connections.
Ydb vs tidb?
>> The transformation from rural to urban life was so sudden, and so wrenching, that the only thing society could do to manage was to drink itself into a stupor for a generation.

Compare with vodka consumption in Russia, e.g. see this paper for alcohol's astonishing effect on Russian society: https://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6...
Cotard's Syndrome
"Cotard's syndrome, also known as Cotard's delusion or walking corpse syndrome, is a rare mental disorder in which the affected person holds the delusional belief that they are dead, do not exist, are putrefying, or have lost their blood or internal organs. Statistical analysis of a hundred-patient cohort indicated that denial of self-existence is present in 45% of the cases of Cotard's syndrome; the other 55% of the patients presented with delusions of immortality."
Why stop there - the man was such poison, that such top-down layoff should include any private chefs, baristas or garbage guys that dealt with him.
TLDR: It's simple a metaphor for analytical breakdown of a big problem into many little problems (vice what I thought would be a more interesting discussion about using fractal patterns to guide timing and direction of key decision points in a plot).
My grad program was fairly open about saying the standardized tests were used to sort applicants for consideration order and other disregarded. I thought that seemed fair.
If schools started estimating the merit of one's character they'd have to probably throw out half of their own faculty and cut off ties with many of their donors.
You can’t “get to” light speed, that’s one of the big punchlines in relativity.

If you pick an acceleration equal to the acceleration we experience on Earth (aka 1g, aka ~9.8m/s^2), you hit relativistic speeds (speeds at which you need to take into account the effects of relativity to do anything) surprisingly fast. On the order of hundreds of days. So, it is not really a matter of safe acceleration on a long space trip. Instead you have to worry about the actual speed you are traveling at—even though space is very empty, there are still atoms floating around out there, and you’ll be moving at very high speeds relative to them, leading to interesting collisions.
Are there any libraries or frameworks to facilitate writing code that accesses things like the filesystem and network, but also works in Node, Deno, and Bun (bunodeno)?
By reading some code here https://github.com/Timot05/logic-card/blob/main/elec/src/log...

I wonder if with directional arrows, instead of writing "out ~ switch.in; switch.out ~ power.gnd", we could write "out ~> switch ~> power.gnd" instead?

But without distinction between in and out ports it may not be possible to check if connections are valid ones.

Anyway, this project really makes me want to learn electronics! Congrats!
Or “using an http client to call an api with Ruby”
Can you explain why matter-antimatter only has 60% efficiency?
Also: The Futurological Congress.
The purpose of the gin anecdote is less to provide an airtight proof of a scientific correlation, and more as a warmup act to get your mind to think about social behavior in a different way than you might naturally be inclined to. The author getting you to walk through a warmup exercise to get you ready to follow the argument they are about to make.

Not every piece of writing is meant to function as an academic thesis.
If the project, company, or specific person you want to work with is using Github, you're using Github.
I just want to see the world burn.

This kind of stuff will break down trust in each other and we will all be cultivating cabbage to feed our own.
"A lot of those jobs remain unchanged, with a college degree now required as essentially an empty gatekeeping step."

This is simply untrue. Huge numbers of data entry and switchboard style jobs have disappeared due to automation.
Just grab "9 to 5" and see how much paperwork went into jobs before computers.
Is GitHub Copilot for Everyone?
The TFA said that at some point he went 1 week without any tea and just water as part of the testing, so yeah, the doctor DID have him drink plain water
This is amazing. Dan, if you see this get in touch.
> Although there’s no dedicated gem for Ollama yet

https://rubygems.org/gems/ollama-ai

https://github.com/gbaptista/ollama-ai

> A Ruby gem for interacting with Ollama's API that allows you to run open source AI LLMs (Large Language Models) locally

To be fair, this just depends on Faraday and wrap the http API - it still doesn't automate ollama install etc.

Ed: also

https://github.com/andreibondarev/langchainrb

https://github.com/andreibondarev/langchainrb_rails

Ed2: anyone have some insight as to why it doesn't support summarize for ollama?
I'm on a quite nice white tea mix now. I always had the issue of not being able to handle the bitterness of most of the teas. Especially after they got cold. This one goes quite well without any sugar.
Nothing is really 100% coverage :)
In the book series The Expanse, that was pretty much the only unrealistic technology that the humans had, which allowed them to colonize the solar system. Sure, there was some might-as-well-be-magic alien stuff later in the book, but by page 1, humans have colonized the solar system, purely with a hand-wavy engine that can generate sustained thrust without needing tons of reaction mass and without turning your exhaust port into an unimaginable hell cannon.
Car scheme sounds terrifying to me
If you were to shoot it out at close to the speed of light, you'd knock the Earth out of its orbit.
> What's it called when you make a single photograph by overexposing a series of time-lapsed frames into one?

Long exposure
Show HN: Kirby-like platformer game made in TypeScript
Software – It's not what you think it is
This kind of CEO is more likely to make Boeing's safety even worse.
I was going to comment that all the ergonomics things I've read suggest arm-length (touch with tip of finger) as the optimal monitor distance, but if you're nearsighted enough that doing so would require glasses, I can completely understand wanting to have the screen much closer. That makes a lot more sense.
Hey everyone, if you want to see a complete project, please check out the Spin Servo Drive that Narayan designed: https://github.com/atopile/spin-servo-drive

It can be a good example of how to setup an ato project.
Not necessarily the only proper solution--hard failure, like array out-of-bounds errors, is also often an acceptable solution.
I read the paper "Rephrasing the Web: A Recipe for Compute and Data-Efficient Language Modeling" that was published last week and started building a tool for people to collectively generate synthetic training data.

The tool still needs a trust mechanism and a coherent incremental publishing strategy to be able to operate in a public fashion. Right now, running one node using my RTX 3060 it would take 1.2 years to do one split of the C4 dataset.

https://arxiv.org/abs/2401.16380

https://www.emergentmind.com/papers/2401.16380

https://github.com/gardner/gsd
> And random primary keys (or any key really, and even more so for clustered indexes PK) really trash a db cache and locking systems.

That sounds like a problem which should be solved by making database engines not assume keys have some sane ordering, not by putting timestamps in UUIDs.
As for scanning: $30mm doesn't seem like a ton of money to scan 800 scrolls with untold history and other works, compared to other uses of that amount of money I could name now. Maybe someone will donate that cost and perhaps all the scrolls can be transported at one time or in a few bigger groups to be closer to the particle accelerator. Another million bucks and I bet you could build a climate-controlled container to take them all at once, or something. If I had $30mm I would definitely donate to this cause, it seems like one of the best uses of that kind of money I can think of. That would bypass the need to research and develop a bench top scanner or another solution. You could even crowdfund this!

As for segmentation: get some sort of collective solution going, like the Seti@Home did, but for people who are bored as hell, instead of them scrolling Reddit or Twitter all day. Maybe do it like a CAPTCHA so you get it done for free? I'd segment for a few hours a month if I had the ability to do so.

This is a cool project that has taken a community to build to this point, why not try and open and expand the collective of humans working to understand the scrolls? Get millions of people involved and you don't need to rely on technological crutches and development, though that is not the worst way to go either.
DeepEcho: Synthetic Data Generation Library