skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a somewhat unique answer for that- I started with building a product, and ended up building a dev platform for LLM based products (more specifically- dev platform for json outputting LLM structured tasks).

Here's the story:

At first I was building a tool for stock analysis- the user writes in free language what companies they want to compare, along with a time period, and their requested stocks show up on a graph. They can then further reiterate on it- add companies, and change range all in free language (I had many more analysis functions planned).
Following some unique dev challenges I've found- I ended up not releasing the product (possibly will sometime in the future..), and switched to work on a dev platform to help with these challenges.

I was using what I called 'LLM structured task'- basically instructing the LLM to perform some task on the user input, and outputting a json that my backend can work with (in the described case- finding mentioned companies and optional time range, and returning stock symbols, and string formatted dates).
The prompting has turned out to be not trivial, and kind of fragile- things broke with even minor iterations on the prompt or model configurations. So- I developed a platform to help with that- testing (templated) prompt versions, as well on model configurations on whole collections of inputs at once- making sure nothing breaks in the development process (or after).
* If you're interested, welcome to check it out on https://www.promptotype.io
Why the past tense?
I'm eager to see what the extra funding does for the project. UX, setup, and everything else that relates to integration wasn't something I wanted to work with last time I took a serious look at the project.
Recycled commentary on product changes made by an app trying to grow its ad revenue. Honestly this article could be AI generated
They also offer a discount if you import account data from Mint. However, it's worth knowing that the imported account data will be entirely wrong* and you'll need to delete those accounts when you want to use the site for real.

It also lets you add a second login, which is great for couples.

* In our case all transactions were flipped, showing a negative balance on our checking and brokerage accounts and positive on our CC.
Japan's SLIM moon lander snaps what could be its last photo
I know several people that are not too affine with tech and got scammed when they tried to sell some stuff on the net. Mostly small things like books or furniture. Scammers showed interests and asked for credit card numbers.

One failure is on the user, the other one is that credit cards suck. Even with the slapped on security mechanisms, it should have been deprecated technology a long, long time ago.

Sadly any new standard must be established internationally, so there is a lot of momentum for credit cards...
Not sure if the goal was just to make an amusing comparison, but these are actually two completely different concerns.

Building your systems so that they don't depend on permanent infrastructure and snowflake configurations is an orthogonal concern from understanding how to shed load in a business-continuity crisis.
Google Bard now has free image generation
good attention to detail. i'll look into it
I doubt it, $44B would have bought quite a few Gulfstreams - at $80m a pop he could have bought 550 of them and have them fly randomly around.
Then it wouldn’t have that issue - as long as it isn’t stable/reused for too long.

The big problem - how can you tell for sure that is what is happening, and how would you catch a reversion if the underlying library changes behavior? Assuming you’re making a call into someone else’s stuff anyway.

A big challenge I’ve seen with UUID implementations is dependence on some kind of hidden system state that causes issues. like a MAC or nodeid file somewhere in a VM that gets cloned, resulting in duplicates where ‘duplicates should be impossible’.
Herman Miller Identity Guidelines
Plugin hybrid is what I'm looking for in my next car. Kinda want pure EV, but I'd need an inexpensive fast charging car (that isn't a Tesla).

Given my driving habits, I'd only use gas for infrequent long trips.

And Toyota has it priced right. I'm not surprised they're making a killing.
Everything in this story indicated foul play. It’s like all these people who fell through windows. I remember the guy who ended up impaled on the railing. Everyone knew it was a murder at the time. Certainly, the public and the journalists did. Same with the spate of oligarch deaths with, what, 2 helicopter crashes in the same region within a few months?

The parents suspected something. Once the Met started digging all the red flags should have made them take the whole affair seriously.

I mean, the daughter gives a thoroughly debunked testimony at the coroner inquest and somehow that’s normal and nothing to worry about?
That sounds like a feel-good system that would be very difficult to implement in practice. It's very different for different kinds of crimes, and nitpicking over level of victimhood is not something the law seems very concerned about. It could open up a whole cottage industry of "Victimhood Optimization" where people get very good at claiming they were the victim of some nebulous crime, and deserve a payout.

There are "victimless crimes" that are only victimless because everyone was lucky: a 3rd DUI, firing a gun in a crowded area but not hitting anyone, etc. Then there are crimes that have millions of potential victims: dumping toxic waste in a river, etc. It'd be an entire extra enigma the courts would have to figure out with every case. (I do think a big percentage of the "victimless crimes", like personal drug possession, should not even be crimes at all, but that's beside this point.)
I fundamentally disagree. The source of truth should be naively updating my components, not a script that may or may not break with the next update which has 0 support available.

Given the repeated asks on the GitHub issues, I’m confident I’m not alone in that belief.

Infoblox doesn’t tell me to write a terraform script to update AD/dns and vice versa, they built it into the product.
The big lesson to me has been for a platform to be open, there must be both third party clients and third party servers. A service that has only one backend server that no one else can run (looking at you Signal) isn't ok anymore. Even worse, Twitter or Reddit being "open" because they have an API: that's all bullshit, and you are setting yourself up to be rug pulled. We don't need to hear these lies anymore and it's time to move on from the services making either of those claims. I'm waiting for a little more progress and third party control to make a judgement on Bluesky.

Users should think of this in terms of buy in cost. If you use a particular platform for 10 years, and build a community on it, you can take advantage of that and you get a mostly free service. But at some point the bill comes, and you move on. However, I keep thinking that the reason why some of those open third party protocols - even including email - "suck" is because so much of the time and focus has been on these proprietary, commercial communications platforms.

I feel so old now I went from thinking email is a terrible way of communicating to, actually Facebook is far worse. Instead of seeing updates from my friends I'm looking at a firehose of noise of things I can't control and have zero interest in. Nearly 20 years later, I use e-mail every day and Facebook 0.

Veering off-topic, but seeing conversations running for many years over the standards implementation and feature parity of the clients and servers both for XMPP and Matrix (meaning each separately, not inter-operating XMPP and Matrix, but rather each protocol has many servers and many clients, all trying to keep up with a moving protocol spec without breaking backwards compatibility), I have to laugh that a piece of legislation can just magically open the doors a some potentially very convoluted and continuously changing communications platform to third parties.

It could be even more self defeating and monopoly re-enforcing if those platforms are relaying to users of third party apps the features they are missing along with warnings about non-existent encryption and everyone can read their messages.
(As someone who voted D in 2020 election)

Try standing at an intersection in SF for 5 min with kids without them getting scared. I had to do it unfortunately in SOMA (long story why) and a sketchy guy mostly on drugs scared the hell out of my kids. That is not normal and is what I personally consider "falling apart" - kids should be able to roam around freely in a healthy city.
Those laws apply to US citizens. GDPR purports to apply to everyone around the globe. That's a substantial increase in scope.

I like the GDPR. For the most part, I think it's a good law. It has problems, like it's impossible to comply fully with GDPR and HIPAA at the same time, but I'm glad a major government is pushing so hard for something I support.

And yet I still give it the side-eye for claiming jurisdiction over non-EU citizens living and working in non-EU countries without having a realworld presence in the EU.
Ask HN: Do you read Secrets from Environment Variables
The Command Line Interface Guidelines [1] says:

> Do not read secrets from environment variables

> Secrets should only be accepted via credential files, pipes, `AF_UNIX` sockets, secret management services, or another IPC mechanism

Which one of these do you use? On github it seems common for projects to use environment variables for secrets.

Do you use secret management services for work only, or do you use them in your personal projects too?

[1] https://clig.dev/#environment-variables
> Outrage is brewing among a growing contingent of users who post videos arguing TikTok is ruined now, and analysts say the company is jeopardizing its success.

People say this about all platforms. As much as I dislike Facebook, Twitter, Pintrest, etc, they all are doing fine. The vocal minority/article bias is at play. I don't like TikTok as a platform either, but it's insanely massive and that's not going to change for a while.
I can't see any issues on that website, all interactive elements, sliding, scrolling, animations seem to work (Firefox 122 and 123)
Accessibility. Not everyone has 20/20 vision.
It's not that they're working it's that they're paid basically nothing for their labor which is bad for them and also the people in surrounding areas who have to compete with the absolute pittance the prison labor forces are paid.
I'll tell you what, next time you're at the doctor, and you lose control and intentionally side step boredom, use your device - like the early Homo sapiens did? - to do some research on the value of boredom, on not using your device as a crutch, etc.

Please feel free to revisit your answer once you've done the necessary amount of research.

"There was stuff to do then, too, and some of that boredom was discouraged."

Yup! This ^^^ is exactly the point. Prior to that something (constructive?) to do, there was boredom. Pile on enough boredom and the brain finds "answers". And the opposite is true...no boredom...no answers. So we agree then.

The problem here is, your timelines are too short and your extrapolations too shallow. Perhaps that's a symptom of a lack of boredom. See?
You have missed my point. Actually carrying out "Shift 10 US cents from Account2732 to Account8462" is trivial. A simple server could deal with 5 million such requests an hour.

Now imagine you had to deal with $500000 moving around your system per hour.

* How many of those are fraudulent?

* How do you handle chargebacks? No one will use your system if you don't support them.

* How do people move money in and (worse) out of their accounts? That means interacting with banking and a small army of accountants.

* 99% of your customers will make $5 a month but 1% will take possibly millions, effectively becoming business partners. Do you police what they are doing? Are they laundering money? What do you do if they come to you asking for reduced rates?
Snake oil at best
Can you elaborate on point 3? What do you think are the differences or pain points of Mastodon that Bluesky fixes?
Reddit wasn’t for a long time. Having leadership in place that actually cares about the users and doing something about bots would go a long way. Maybe when Reddit IPOs and it is a huge bust we can get some new sites going.
That, to me, is an argument for improving the existing account portability of ActivityPub, not for starting from scratch.

To me, the Not Inventented Here feel to Bluesky makes me want to stay far away. People will bridge it to ActivityPub anyway.
You aren’t accomplishing the same thing, you are providing less tailored experience and calling it progress because you believe your opinions are progress and any others are regressive. Thanks for proving that
good eye. this app is running on GCP Cloud run, and they use a similar design. I'll look into the fix.
It's obvious that government is already involved with everyone's identification.

This is analogous to the argument that government shouldn't be involved in "the free market", when the market is actually defined by the laws that regulate it.

Let's just call this the "Texas Delusion"...

Governments can be changed by democratic processes, corporate decision making is completely inaccessible to the public.

Do people really think life would be better if goggle just ran everything?
I have a hybrid highlander and love it.

The reason they are efficient is something like this:

A cars engines efficiency/fuel economy is constrained by its max output. Ie when you have an engine capable of very rapid acceleration, that engine is going to be too big across all other scenarios - ie two cars of the same weight going the same speed , the one with the bigger engine will consume more fuel.

The hybrid lets you take advantage of this in two ways. First it allows you to have a smaller engine because the electric motors kick in when you need the acceleration. So it lets you get away with a smaller engine that is more than enough for your driving and that gives you efficiency.

Then it also uses the fact that even the smaller engine is still oversized for things like coasting or going steady so it uses the extra engine output to charge the battery at the right times. Regenerative breaking is another efficiency play

Curious what will happen to the battery over time but for the past few years the hybrid highlander is great.
You don't need to deploy your JavaScript web apps to a server anymore
>This might be how it works in London

Yes, that is what I am talking about, as this happened in London. As far as I'm aware, most police forces (of the kind that anyone would want to emulate) are focused on investigating crimes, not on attempting to resolve arbitrary mysterious circumstances.

>London and the whole British establishment are thoroughly corrupt and the police is subservient.

The simplest explanation for why the police stopped investigating is that there isn't any very strong evidence that anyone still alive (Sharma is now dead) is legally responsible for the death of the man who jumped from the balcony. Even if you are right that everything is the worst and everyone is corrupt, it doesn't follow that corruption is explanation for what happened in this instance. The police attempted to find out the truth, but none of the key witnesses were cooperative.
People always get confused when I say the US should finally get around to banning slavery.

I tried to compute an estimate of the current percentage of the US population that's forced labor vs. at the peak of the pre-abolition slave trade, and from what I can tell, it's currently higher than it ever was back then.

People argue that what we currently have isn't the same or as bad, but present-day prisoners would point out that the current system is a form of eugenics: We keep a large percentage of reproductive-age black males locked up where they can't father or raise children. Back in the slave days, owners often chose who breeded with whom. Both are reprehensible, but you could argue either situation is worse than the other. At least the old policy didn't have the effect of slowly reducing / diluting out the black population.

Anyway, the US should ban slavery.
I tried both Mint and YNAB but they both had syncing issues that infuriated me. My friend recommended Copilot[0] and it's been a joy to use. It's designed so well that it somehow got me to take the time to label my transactions & set my budget, where with Mint/YNAB I would just add my accounts & not do anything else because of the laggy interfaces.

[0]https://copilot.money/
Prison is supposed to keep people who are harmful to society away from their victims. Anything else is secondary and should not impinge on prison's functionality of segregating convicts from society.
Has anyone been sentenced for falling into those lgpl gotchas?
An example I can provide:

Sometimes in an organisation you have an app or webapp where the same staff members who write content and marketing posts want to be able to write content for places in said app/webapp.

Instead of having those content changes be part of the change request cycle between Engineering and other parts of the organisations, they can write an CMS integration into their app/webapp and allow that department to make changes fast without involving engineering and utilising their existing skillsets.

It also allows said external departments to use the tooling they use for blog posts to enforce approval workflows and content policies.

Like anything, there are tradeoffs.
one of my favorite pieces of financial journalism ever, https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/newsletters/2019-10-23/mon..., explains how he got the bux during wework's collapse:

> [softbank's offer to rescue wework] is the result of Neumann’s holdup power: Prior to the deal, Neumann is still the company’s controlling shareholder, and he could just say no to a deal that he didn’t like. That might completely evaporate his own wealth, but it would evaporate a whole lot more of SoftBank’s, and it kind of looks like SoftBank blinked first: In effect, the price of Neumann allowing SoftBank to rescue WeWork was that SoftBank had to hand Neumann a billion dollars for himself
After working on it for several days, I can't really disagree with anything in here. Strictly speaking, it's not better or more productive than my large double 4k monitors.

But I am enjoying using it for work in a way I haven't heard reflected yet, that touches on some people's complaints about window management. Rather than surrounding myself with a "sphere of screens", I find it more pleasing to align windows with the walls of the room I'm actually in. Notes, todo lists, calendars, email, all open at the same time up against the walls of my physical room. I stand at my standing desk as usual, with my macbook display in front of me, and then I walk around to look at different things.

It may not be better but it's a different, pleasant experience.

Also, art is great on the VP. I put the album art of the currently playing music full size on one wall and it's actually given me a new appreciation for that.
Why do we refrigerate eggs and milk while other countries don't?
It will be recycled again at some point for whatever the next trend in apps will be. ____is dead, long live ____ has been a thing for oh so long.
"You have no expectation of privacy using public airspace"

Replace airspace with "space". Public figure in a public space. They always want the perks without the cost.

Now, not being harrased is another thing. But not being noticed? (Specially in an airplane) Haters gonna hate.

Epilogue: Yes, any publicity is publicity. I am even considering her AI releases, and the acompaning complains, a public stunt.
Optery also has a Help Desk article on this catch-22 where in order to opt out of data broker sites, you must first tell them who you are, otherwise, how else would they know who to opt out: https://help.optery.com/en/article/what-information-does-opt...
XMC.dspy with Karel D'Oosterlinck
Hey everyone! I am BEYOND EXCITED to publish our 87th Weaviate Podcast with Karel D’Oosterlinck from the University of Ghent and Stanford NLP!

This podcast was simply amazing, I can't thank Karel enough for how much he taught me about DSPy, how to use it for Extreme Multi-Label Classification (XMC), and the applications of XMC in Biomedical NLP, Recommendation, Job Listings, and more. I am beyond grateful to have the opportunity to share this knowledge in the Weaviate podcast!

The podcast begins with an overview of Extreme Multi-Label Classification. How in the world do we prompt LLMs to categorize inputs into thousands of classes?!

To solve this, Karel has developed a novel Infer-Retrieve-Rank (IReRa) DSPy program. Infer first takes the input and outputs coarse labels for it. These coarse labels are then mapped to the thousands of classes (typically managed in ontologies) with the retrieval system and... you guessed it, Vector Embeddings! The Rank LLM component then takes the classes from the vector search and sorts them by relevance to the query.

Karel then took me through the details of the DSPy compiler! There is just so much opportunity with this from understanding how we tweak the descriptions of tasks we give to our language models, to populating the prompt with in-context learning examples. We discussed all sorts of things from model compression (e.g. can we prompt Mistral or Llama 7b to rival the performance of GPT-4 or Gemini Ultra at a particular task in an LLM pipeline, such as re-ranking or query writing?), diving into the latest on Teacher-Student optimization, input-dependent prompting, and so much more! We then concluded the podcast by discussing IReRa's applications for Recommendation Systems and what lead Karel to Biomedical NLP! Thanks again Karel, I learned so much from this one!

YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ye26_8XPcs

Spotify: https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/weaviate/episodes/XMC-dspy-with-Karel-DOosterlinck---Weaviate-Podcast-87-e2fehtk
Maybe I’m misunderstanding but sounds like you’re proposing the modifying the command on the left to detect whether it’s piping it’s output (curious how you do that btw sounds pretty cool / useful)

But at that point you could just handle —dry-run directly
Diesel-electric trains have no battery, though. The Chevy Volt hybrid was pretty close in that the gas engine acted only as a generator to charge the batteries and could supply enough power for the motors in case the batteries died. I’m not sure why Chevy killed it.
umg pulling their music will do more damage as half of popular videos are muted and comments have being suggesting moving to reels.

if zuck goes after the music companies of which there's only like 3, he might win.
Regarding your edit, much of bluesky's culture is developing in reaction to Twitter, or based on lessons learned from it. That block-first attitude is a response both to the kinds of bots that are endemic on Twitter, and to the kinds of engagement-bait that made it such a mess at times. New follower looks like it might be a bot? Block. See a skeet from someone who looks like an asshole? Block. Don't feed the trolls, just block and move on. Personally I tend to mute, rather than block, but I think lots of social media would be better if people didn't boost things they dislike for the purpose of dunking or disagreeing.

And to be clear, not all of bluesky's culture is a response to twitter, a lot of it is just the kind of lighthearted playfulness you can only get on a small and new social network.
I switched to Monarch as well. I tried YNAB first, after mint closed, and _despised_ it. Then tried Monarch and felt basically at home again.
If shadow banking looks like a duck
My local dealer seems to have a scheme going that leads to them having a lot of very low km (like <2000) Siennas listed for 1.2-2x MSRP. I hope they choke on them.