skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I really think the existence of this project is a Good Thing. Massive kudos to the people working on it. Previously I was always disappointed that our only options seemed to be open source meta search engines and closed source search engines, with most of the latter being corporate surveillance calitalist hellscapes, or anonymized portals to the same (Google and Bing, Duck Duck Go and Startpage), with only Kagi being an exception, although still closed source. It seemed like a really uniquely bad landscape, given that in most other areas of software there are at least some FLOSS alternatives to proprietary platforms that actually implement their core functionality, regardless of their relative quality. Stract finally changes that, which means several good things to me. First, you get actual, real accountability for them to stick to their stated privacy goals. Second, you get the ability for a wide variety of people to contribute to and influence the project, and/or learn from the project how to do this stuff themselves. And finally, most importantly, since it's a full reimplementation from indexing up, it's an opportunity to innovate on and experiment with the fundamentals, instead of just rearranging deck chairs on the titanic like e.g. Startpage. Thats really great :)
Sure, but the actual evidence is much easier to collect after you have a confession.
What's the most nefarious use cases possible for these?

Voter fraud? Single individual could go around to a bunch of different voting polls too?
> otherwise the autonomous car software would be part of it

I think it's too extreme a definition. It's not like we need to wait to get to that level to seriously consider the effects when 90% of software is not that. It feels more relevant to consider where the domain of things it can accomplish is equal to 90% of software creation.

> if you know what you are doing, are you really faster prompting the AI to generate code for you than writing the code directly? I would argue that for something completely trivial, I can completely imagine that I have written the code in vim before the IDE integrating the AI has even loaded.

This would indicate me you're far higher than the median software engineer -- you're maybe top 0.1%

> when you have a bug in the codebase, does the AI find it for you? Because if you have to debug it yourself, it may not be fun to have to dig into AI-generated code.

AI is probably better at debugging than most software engineers. If your point is that it's worse than the top 0.1% of debuggers, then I'd agree but I'd argue it should get better over time. The question of if there's physical or theoretical limitations on it getting better is an interesting one. There's still a massive amount of code to train on.

> Sure, and with AI they will be replaced by the same amount of startups building a CRM with AI.

Yes, perhaps this implies value must accrue to something that's not the CRM and more how the AI plays into it.
With so many local taxing jurisdiction, it's essentially impossible. I bought something from my office, and if it's shipped to my office, I pay one tax. Shipped to my home (in a neighboring county), it's a different (lower) tax.

I did some POS work for a company years back and tried to integrate 'taxes'. I was replacing an earlier system, and I used modern tax SaaS (avalara, IIRC). The client was telling me all my taxes were wrong, but... digging in... Avalara was correct, and the client had been calculating and collecting taxes wrong for... about 15 years. I had no way to try to figure out how they were doing it 'wrong' to match how they'd been doing it. This had to do with 'service/labor' income vs 'product' vs 'chemicals' they used. Different counties in the same state had different rates (which changed over different months/years historically). Tribal lands had different rules still.

The biggest lesson I took from that was... if you do something (tax calculations), do it consistently and uniformly. Should they have been audited, it may have looked a bit better that they were at least consistent in their tax issues, instead of looking like they were explicitly trying to somehow intentionally scam customers or the govt.
It's not new. They are just passing in an invalid parameter. If you pass random parameters into a function like memcpy it will do bad stuff too.

C APIs were not all designed to be safe to call and can commonly crash or introduce a vulnerability.
Same here in Belgium and most other EU countries that I'm aware of. Advertised price must be final price including VAT.
No signature on paper can force you to keep talking in police custody. You can stop talking at any time, regardless of what you signed.
Sorry 9 month old. I’ve just realised the mistake
My friend Andy Eskenazi just taught this class during MIT's Independent Activities Period, and here are all the materials.

"Ever wondered how are objects from our daily lives designed? How can we generate a computer 3D model of a mug, a bottle of Diet Coke, or a Saturn V rocket? What about designing the blades of a jet-engine? A test dummy? How about making an animation of a LEGO house building itself? Or making a realistic render of a bowl of fruit?"
Maybe the best move forward for Samsung is to come out as followers of the surrealism art movement, they could use Magritte's famous 1929 painting to accommodate this press release - [The Treachery of Images - Wikipedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Treachery_of_Images)
I have built a webapp for translating srt files: https://www.subsgpt.com

GPT-4 excels as a translator, but it often encounters issues with content warnings and formatting errors when translating entire subtitle files via ChatGPT. The solution is straightforward: divide the subtitle file into sections, focusing solely on translating the text and disregarding the timestamps. While it's feasible to have ChatGPT maintain the correct format, I've observed a decline in translation quality when attempting this in a single pass. My preferred approach is a two-phase method: first, translate the text, and then, if necessary, request ChatGPT to adjust the formatting.

The webapp splits the srt file into batches of 20 phrases and translates each batch. It also allows for manual correction of the final translation.

Ah and it's also serverless: you input your OpenAI token & select the model of your choice and the webapp makes the requests to OpenAI directly.
Oh, and here I was trying to be optimistic and say they're at least finding them now.

Turns out they're not even doing that.
We've built a prompting, synthetic data generation, and training library called DataDreamer: https://github.com/datadreamer-dev/DataDreamer
Failing to update or by design for bad actors-tyrant wannabes continue with things like easier voter fraud?
Thank you, this is exactly the information I was looking for.
Partially, but can't go back in time and prove otherwise. When Conde Nast started buying up specialty like Bicycling, Outdoors, and Wired they transformed them into generic "lifestyle" magazines (10-15 years ago). I remember flipping through Bicycling and seeing 3 car advertisements before getting to the first that had anything to do with cycling and all the columns and editorials contained product pitches for personal care products("What I'm obsessed with this week!").

Would these magazines have survived without Conde Nast? I don't know. I know I stopped buying/reading/visiting websites of all of them soon after because I got bored seeing the same things regardless of the title. I guess the counterpoint would be any niche publication that is still doing well in today's publishing environment.
I'll answer for them - forcing Ukraine to capitulate.
I'm not sure if this is the category of "build" that you had in mind, but I used 3.5 to make a pay-as-you-go chat interface for the OpenAI API: https://benwheatley.github.io/YetAnotherChatUI/
I see the glibc security team fell back to a variant of the age old "oh, but it's undefined behavior, so if we burn down your computer that's okay too!" justification why they shouldn't be assigned an CVE for this.

> This memory corruption in the GNU C Library through the qsort function is
invoked by an application passing a non-transitive comparison function, which
is undefined according to POSIX and ISO C standards. As a result, we are of
the opinion that the resulting CVE, if any, should be assigned to any such
calling applications and subsequently fixed by passing a valid comparison
function to qsort and not to glibc.

Disappointing. Not unexpected, but still disappointing. Oh well, at least they fixed it.
But a dumpster is a complete and functional item. I think that's a key distinction. This is an incomplete high rise blighting the landscape until it's taken down.

What if you like your job, your area, and a developer shows up one day and installs 2/3rds of a dumpster in the parking lot. There is a partially completed trash enclosure there, clearly unfinished, blighting the view from your office.

If someone drives past, they're not going to get a positive impression whether it's painted or not.

If someone paints the wreckage of the incomplete dumpster, how do you feel about it? It seems to me the disrespect here is really from the people who built a pile of garbage in your parking lot.
Yeah, I'm worse than average at multitasking and was never able to take notes without missing chunks of the lecture, let alone being able to think about what was said. I found the most effective approach for me was to read the chapter beforehand taking notes on anything I didn't completely understand. Then during the lecture just sit and listen, perhaps occasionally jotting something down that wasn't in the book, then asking questions if the lecture hadn't already answered them. Write summarizing notes was deferred until reviewing material in preparation for an exam, if done at all, using LaTeX if I thought it would be useful as a long-term reference, or paper if it was just to assist mental organization.
Happy customer here!
You are absolutely correct, it was the Model S that I mistook for the Model Y from the source https://insideevs.com/news/527966/electric-cars-from-heavies...

I wonder what made the Parisians choose 2 tonnes, lowering the limit could certainly be justified.

The Model 3 and Y weigh twice that of my current drive, which is quite the difference.
Unfortunately no.

He now adopted the "admit the problem and fix it" attitude because he was "caught", before that was business as usual for Boeing. It was/is more a "don't ask, don't tell", dump the risk on other separate entities/companies and cross your fingers because we need to get those planes out of the assembly line as fast and cheaply as possible no matter what.

Boeing is and has been under pressure, but it's their own fault. They have been fucking around for DECADES now and when there were "difficulties" they always called the US government to "facilitate" sales or their buddies inside the regulatory bodies to put the green check on their garbage.

Nothing about this is news, it has been known for years and years.

Unfortunately Boeing always has a sweet defense contract waiting to compensate any "rough year", so they keep fucking around..
Well, designing a blog in alignment with DHL's corporate design that's pleasant to ones eyes is certainly not the easiest task but boy, what happened with this header bar (in dark mode)?
And the baby was 9 months old (I got myself wrong) and I thought we had solved the violent tantrum phase
We're only 1 year into this
Alternatively, you can just believe in standard, copyright law which says you need a license to distribute much content. Most file sharing cases ruled in favor of that.

The AI companies have been bundling and distributing copywritten works for pretraining. They do illegal activities just to make the AI’s. That’s before considering them generating the training data or derivative works. So, there’s lots of risk which they’re just ignoring for money.
And then this business just sells out in less than 5 years, hell even the big four screw up constantly for their primary focus.
>when he asked police whether he needed an attorney they said no because they were only asking a few questions

More from https://wainnocenceproject.org/stories/ted-bradford/

> An attorney sent by Ted’s wife was prohibited from entering the interrogation room by law enforcement, who told the attorney he would not be permitted in unless Ted specifically requested an attorney.

The cops are not interested in playing fair.
Is it? Do you have data to back up your data? How often are people convicted with coerced confessions compared to just straight evidence. I did quick search on for data and found this. Should the balance fall on protecting innocent people or prosecuting criminals?

> According to the Innocence Project, almost 30% of convicted people who have been exonerated by DNA testing confess to crimes they didn't commit.
>I.e. the same way commerce was carried out everywhere for approximately forever.

No! That's not true :) as long as there has been debt there has been fiat. There has been debt since the beginning of commerce. So your system is going to have the same issues. You're "assuming" quite a lot for someone who really shouldn't be assuming anything.
Not being able to break out and spatially arrange different Mac windows on this thing is a major deal breaker right now. I don’t really care about all the apps published to the store. For real productivity I want a full desktop computer in front of me.
False confessions are often secured without an attorney present. Many people are not good at demanding their attorney, and the cops aren't going to suggest it or offer it as an option to someone they're trying to sweat out.
VSCode doesn't support tree-sitter at all, it doesn't "suck", it just doesn't exist
Perjury.
Or 'Zip code'.

It's ZIP code.

Annoys the heck out of me...
It's not just socioeconomic background, it also includes 'how much your parents cared about your education', to some extent. For some families (think of the typical Asian immigrant family), getting the kids a good education is the first priority. They will sacrifice vacations, living in a nicer house, etc. in order to make sure their kids go to better schools and get better grades.

If you have two families that are equally poor, but where one family cares a lot about education and sends their kid to the harder school (perhaps by living in the cheapest apartment in the neighborhood that is eligible for that school), they will be disadvantaged compared to the other family, who send their kids to the less rigorous school.

To the extent that there are racial/cultural correlations that result in poor Asian kids going to schools that have higher average SATs than poor kids of other races, an ostensibly race-neutral policy like this will mean Asian students could (as a group) continue to face disadvantages in the admissions process.
Ready Player One is a work of fiction.
People who take the SAT are self-selecting. An awful lot of kids don't take it, and a lot of schools don't require it. So the sort of kid who takes it will also be the sort of kid who gets good grades.
My seven county metro area has close to 20 different sales tax rates, depending on the city and county. It’s not as easy as you think.
The primary definition of underground means hidden, but most of the secondary definitions apply here.

adj. 3a: existing outside the establishment, as in "an underground literary reputation"

n. 3c: an unofficial, unsanctioned, or illegal but informal movement or group

The journalist might even have intended:

n. 3b: a clandestine conspiratorial organization set up for revolutionary or other disruptive purposes especially against a civil order
That is around 5 months operating capital in a small company.

Most would laugh you out their office asking for 7% of equity.

I often wonder if people understand why 1:23 companies survive the startup cycle.

Best regards =)
Hah I have a 43” 4k at home with a tiling window manager called yabai. It’s nice because it also works for my Xbox or watching movies.

But at work I have a triple monitor setup and to me that’s the definitive holy grail for a workspace.
There’s a halving coming up in about 40 days which means the miners may reduce their mining and energy potentially about half. Then another halving again every 4 years thereafter.
If I had suggested to my high school friends that we "prep for the SAT" I think I would have been roundly laughed out of the room.
I don't need to supress my thoughts. I don't know why people jump to this. I do things quietly all the time. Perhaps you shouldn't assume this sort of thing and do something to see others in a more positive light.

The main issue with waiting is that I'm just waiting. I don't like waiting and don't don't see an issue with doing something so the time passes more quickly.

If you don't like something and have the tools to make it a little better, why would you not use them? Especially if it makes you a bit less irritated if they are running late - it makes things better for everyone.
Forgot to add - public schools in the US are effectively mini monopolies. You are forced to send your kid there, unless you work very hard to get your kids into a “choice” program, or can afford private school, or have free time to home school.

In our State, NJ, in theory each County has a County Superintendent to over see schools, and the State Dept of Education to oversee them. In reality, the County and State bureaucracy does little to nothing to provide actual oversight, and schools become private fiefdoms. The end result is school quality varies wildly, and housing prices are very strongly correlated to school quality. In our crappy district, real estate agents complain it is very hard to sell housing to families with children or who will soon have them because the schools are so bad. This creates a downward spiral for the school as fewer and fewer kids are enrolled.
That is an old trick from companies exposed to a great deal of liability to cover the legal and administrative costs of perfection.
Currently, the Ivy League institutions are estimated to admit 10% to 15% of each entering class using legacy admissions.

Add that to the zip code correlation that is the strongest indicator of SAT scores and it does matter.

Students without parents that are college graduates are also at a disadvantage no matter what their potential is.

It is one of the barriers to social mobility.
I chose to build our backend in Ruby (front end in Vuejs) 2 years ago when I started leexi.ai because I wanted to have a quick MVP on the market and we sticked with it because it's so good for what it does!

Rails, Sidekiq, Postgres, Redis, boring technologies powering thousands of customers.
I’m working on some tools to help GMs of tabletop games make content for their players.

Little demo is up at npcquick.app.

Doesn’t look like much rn, but there’s no openai involved. Currently it doesn’t even use a gpu.
And because of that a photo of your driver's license is at best a low-pass filter. A central identity system where you get strong identity verification will be relied on for real security and authentication making it a properly juicy target the level of Gmail for account compromises but the real life security of Verizon issuing phone numbers and sim cards.
IMO the Grimoire GPT's success is proof that there is a market for something like this.
Oh, I know... There are over 3k login attempts per day. As a matter of fact I started writing an article about it but time constraints + I don't always have the motivation when I do find time. Some day...
A high school friend of mine made the mistake of doing that because in the past he had cooperated with the arresting officer (i.e. snitched). However, what he didn't realize is that may have no bearing on what the officer might do but even more importantly, it's the prosecutor who decides if he's going to pursue the case and they did not care about his past history with that particular officer. The police are not your friends but more importantly they aren't the ones who do the prosecution. They interrogate and they have a job to do.
The knowledge of statistics on HN is astoundingly bad.

Figure 1 shows nothing. At all. Without knowing if the results are statistically meaningful, showing a linear relationship means nothing. You can draw no conclusions from that figure. The only thing it does is lie with data, to imply to an observer that doesn't understand statistics that this means there is a meaningful relationship between the two variables.

> I'm not saying their analysis is perfect, but your arguments aren't that strong...

They said "SAT and ACT scores are highly predictive of academic performance". This means that they can predict academic performance based on SAT. They absolutely cannot. Their own data shows this beyond any doubt.
It’s a 270 year archaeological and technological culmination. The scrolls were dug up in 1752. It took the collective developments of the Industrial Revolution, the sciences all our engineering and manufacturing prowess to discover, preserve and scan the scrolls. Then the final cherry on top of the current AI revolution that can create inferences and connections that are beyond the human mind to even understand. And out pops 2000 year-old wisdom of the ancients.
At that point in time someone is at best a subject. Whether they are a criminal or not remains to be seen, you are a couple of steps ahead of the process there.
I have this installed but I've never actually done more than a quick test of it but this might be a good tool for you. It'll record all of your aws console actions and output them as terraform, couldformation, cdk, etc.

That'd give you a repeatable deployment for disaster recovery without having the toil of writing that part of it. Having to click through every checkbox in the console and iam perms and blahblah under fire is rough.

https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/console-recorder-fo...
> If criminals would behave themselves, there would be less demand for "law enforcement".

I don't think you realize you're arguing against all laws here?

Criminals don't behave themselves, so we make laws and punish them. Law enforcement doesn't behave itself, so we should make laws and punish them.
> Some sort of public/private key repository kept by licensing authorities would be a more preferable solution to me at an initial glance.

Everyone in possession of an ICAO 9303-compliant ID card / password (so, at least everyone in Europe) already has such a thing. These cards can be read by any NFC enabled smartphone that can act as a reader, and the chips themselves can act as a a secure element capable of a range of cryptography functions.

The problem is that while ICAO 9303 is a standard to retrieve and verify the data, it's fundamentally based on the assumption that it is just used to retrieve the data written in cleartext on the card as well as the biometric data so that you can build a staff-less boarding solution for air and sea ports. It's just a read-only dump of the data, signed with a certificate from the card issuer.

We'd additionally need a standard similar to what Germany and Croatia have done that allows a person to use their computer or phone as an NFC reader "proxy" to create a digital signature against a service-provided challenge that can then be traced back to the government's PKI.

Or, to put it in SSL terms, each government has a root CA, that issues a sub-CA certificate to the card producers ("can issue certificates for #.de"), who in turn have the card provision its own public/private keypair, and then sign the card's public key to use as a sub-CA ("can issue certificates for #.person-identifier.de").
While the matter of PA might be controversial, Israel is unambigously occupying Syrian territory - that is, the Golan Heights.