skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not speaking about GDPR, but your post is triggering me (my issue, not yours).

Here’s what is crazy to me about employee PII (personally identifiable information) being considered sensitive.

Say in a well designed system you can audit who made each change or the last change to each business record. As an example, each database table has a login ID of who modified the last record/row most recently.

Now every single such table is polluted with PII?

I get having a list of all the places where personal data is stored, but some people think we need a list of all the places a pointer to personal data is stored (ie an identifier that enables linking; that is what “PII” literally means) and that is just such a bigger dataset I don’t think it is appreciated how deep the rabbit trail goes applying policy to technology.

Every email in an organization contains PII and every system emails can get saved and attached to.

Back to your comment, does GDPR require just listing the personal information locations, or also the (PII) identifiers to it? Is a name alone considered personal information (if I sign my emails with my name does that go on the list and if so, can companies just declare huge subsystems as having personal information?)
There were some calls to shut down AfD, but that's probably too difficult (and the process is difficult for good reasons!), and having them "certified by the courts that they're not extremist enough to be closed down" might be just the advertisement they seek.

The current target seems to be the "Junge Alternative", the AfD's youth organization. Since that's just an association and not a party, it's an easier target. Also, the party youth organizations tend to be more radical than their "grown-up" counterparts, so it's probably relatively simple to make a case there.
I highly advise people to look into the Mach ecosytem, especially mach-sysgpu, which is a complete reimplementation of WebGPU, written (mostly) by Ali Chraghi, who is 17
Wrong. Fiat is fake, the US government does not grow or produce things, people do, they just believe the dollar has value.

You cannot make up an arbitrary metric and try to compare them.
I want to believe in the cycle:
"From telnet to static web to dynamic web to clientside rendered to serverside rendered to telnet."
> A database doesn't know which data is most likely to be used again, but if does know which pages are guaranteed to not be used again because they're not reachable in the b+tree.

This is true, but it may not be as helpful as it initially seems. Because it is very likely the the next mutation then writes to this unused page. So the window where that page is wasting cache capacity is quite small.
Love all the effort put into this.

I don't know if I'm the typical user, but I came into it with eagerness but left feeling like I was pressed into studying. I'm the type of person who likes to learn one a day and feel like that's a good job (e.g. wordle). Most of the birdcalls I'm learning are fun/incidentally through the IOS port of wingspan, which I enjoy immensely.
They already had Windrush scandal. I have no doubts this "invention" given a time will leave numerous victims in it's wake. There are so many ways it can fuck things up.

Oh and while reading the article I've discovered "right to rent". A citadel of freedom this country is. Are they taking lessons from former USSR?
Oh, I am no great fan. Plus I have a nascent blog post on the subject of 'can you believe ...?' items around this subject.

I suppose it comes back to the comparative priorities (as evaluated by recurrent revenue) of ticking rfq boxes vs solving actual problems.
No worries, easy to not foresee every possible way in which strangers could interpret a comment!

But I think that people (at least jwr, and probably even nyc_data_geek saying "on prem") are talking about cloud (like AWS) vs. renting (or buying) servers that live in a data centre run by a company like Hetzner, which can be considered "on prem" if you're the kind of data centre client who has building access to send your own staff there to manage your servers (while still leaving everything else, possibly even legal ownership and therefore deprecation etc. to the data centre owner).

What you're thinking of - literally taking responsibility for running your own mini data centre - I think is hardly ever considered (at least in my experience), except by companies at the extremes of size. If you're as big as Facebook (not sure where the line is but obviously including some companies not AS big as Meta but still huge) then it makes sense to run your own data centres. If you're a tiny business getting less than thousands of website visits a day and where the website (or whatever is being hosted) isn't so important that a day of downtime every now and then isn't a big deal, then it's not uncommon to host from the company's office itself (just using a spare old PC or second hand cheap 1U server, maybe a cheap UPS, and just connected to the main internet connection that people in the office use, and probably managed by a single employee, or company owner, who happens to be geeky enough to think it's one or both of simple or fun to set up a basic LAMP server, or even a Windows server for its oh-so-lovely GUI).
Why not... hop the fence and get the conductor to radio the police? The fine for tresspassing on CP railway property is $500, likely worth less than the cost of the car. Once you're over the fence, as you said the police on the other side don't have jurisdiction. Getting CP police there to fine you allows them to intercept the truck also
Proposal: A Unified Local Directory for LLM Models
I propose that the LLM community agree upon a unified LLM model storage location and organizational subdirectory tree on the major operating systems.

Like many of us, I do a lot of using, testing, and just playing around with LLMs of all types. Each of the tools or packages downloads its models and puts them wherever they like.

This leads to duplicate models in different places on my drives, which wastes space.

Like many people, the fastest most useful drive I have is the main one on my daily driver computer. While I could store the models on a big external drive, I'd be taking a performance hit for tasks that are already in need of all the CPU and/or GPU power I can give them.

Also, although many of the software tools or packages can use the same models, the current "store anywhere" practice means they might not "see" models already downloaded by other softare and "know" that they are available for use.

Additionally, the different LLM software tools and packages may use a different model-storing directory structure. For example, GPT4All stores models in this structure on macOS:

/Users/<your_username>/Library/Application Support/nomic.ai/GPT4All/<model-name>.<suffix>

However, LM Studio stores them like this on macOS:

/Users/<your_username>/Library/Application Support/LM Studio/models/<model-provider-name>/<model-name>/<model-name>.<suffix>

We can change LM Studio's model storage location to point to the GPT4All model directory but LM Studio won't use the GPT4All models in that directory until you "categorize" all the models into LM Studio's preferred directory structure.

That is often the case with LLM software and tools: we can create symbolic links for each software package to a central directory, but if you are constantly trying out new LLM software and tools, that becomes its own hassle as the software and tools may disagree about what all is stored there, how it is named, and what the directory structure should be.

So, my proposal is that the LLM open source community establish a standard location on the top three major operating systems —Linux, macOS, and Windows — that can become the one central place for models to be stored. It could behave like the Documents directory on those operating systems, or like the Desktop — a widely used known location that will be assumed to be there for models to be stored and found.

I suggest ~/Documents/Models but I could see arguments for putting it at the system level for all users to access, such as at /Library/Models on macOS.

Thanks for your consideration.
I liked the idea but not the UI.
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And, quite frankly, I aplaud the Irish for being on the right side of history. They know a genocide when they see one, from first-hand experience.
I was going to quote a couple specific things in your reply but after re-reading it all resonates.

Completely agree with you. More of my conversations are one-way than not. It's uncomfortable when you get part way through a conversation and realize you've asked nearly every question. And then I question whether I am the boring or less interesting one in the pair.

In my profession, I counter this with a simple phrase: be interested, not interesting. It just works better.
Bah! when I requested my sample way back in `96 we only had USENET, and we LIKED it!
Taking medication after getting diagnosed with ADHD. It explained many whys and turned my life around.
My mom had a saying that sums this up: “you are your thoughts, your thoughts expand”
The wikipedia entry talks of widespread power outage. This seems to be common in these parts of the world during summer.
Can’t blame ceiling fans if you cannot turn them on.
>like what money is doing

Currency isnt money. Your money, believe it or not, is gold. In 1971 the gold window closed, the price (of this gold) is controlled centrally, its supply is relatively unknown, but the global banking standard was formed under the gold standard, and a few policies were enacted to abstract the dollar away from the gold underneath. Today, governments and banks do a lot to obfuscate this fact, but it is evidenced in the fact that currency cannot be created without a corresponding debt. This is fiduciary credit, implicitly not explicity backed, and created in quantities that are politically acceptable.

The deflation you speak of is the natural consequence of this system. It is inherently unstable; dollars are created when a loan is issued, that loan must eventually be repaid with interest, but there was only ever enough currency to repay the principle. The only way to keep any amount of currency in circulation is to take on more debt, and that requires willing buyers who are continuously devalued, but if you dont then of course everything collapses, only thing is, you cant compare that to gold or bitcoin.

When times turn sour and people hold their money, you see interest rates rise, unprofitable ventures get washed out of the market. Those companies capital goods return to market creating opportunities for profitable companies. As conditions stabalize around companies that pull their own weight, rates go down and new ventures form. Not so with fiat, when conditions go bad and people save money, the blast radius is everyone with debt, for which there is not enough currency to pay, and cascading defaults emerge as an existential threat to the economy.

I liken it to playing with explosives. Whatever you think you gain by cheap credit, I would point to the disastrous effects of WWI, the prolonging of the great depression, the housing bubble of 2008, and the overall inflation of the last few years. There is far more, but in terms of major events its easy to point to these as examples of how much damage fiat causes.
Plapt: Protein Ligand Binding Affinity Prediction Using Pretrained Transformers
Understanding protein-ligand binding affinity is crucial for drug discovery, enabling the identification of promising drug candidates efficiently. We introduce PLAPT, a novel model leveraging transfer learning from pre-trained transformers like ProtBERT and ChemBERTa to predict binding affinities with high accuracy. Our method processes one-dimensional protein and ligand sequences, leveraging a branching neural network architecture for feature integration and affinity estimation. We demonstrate PLAPT's superior performance through validation on multiple datasets, achieving state-of-the-art results while requiring significantly less computational resources for training compared to existing models. Our findings indicate that PLAPT offers a highly effective and accessible approach for accelerating drug discovery efforts.
The odds of the heuristic being correct are far less favorable than the odds that the person applying the heuristic is just plain wrong.

Or to put it another way, not seeing what other people see in X is probably a failure of your vision.

On the other hand, "if it's popular it's crap" is useful as a tribal identifier. Arbitrary standards of judgement always are.

Good luck.
feels like they subjugated half the web, yea
Not even smuggling -- I assume they can easily build a specialized car stealing device using standard components? None of this is difficult.
Gmail is primarily a free product. Do you know how expensive it would be to run an LLM over every email delivered to gmail? I'd be surprised if there's enough hardware in the world for that.
Wow yeah I didn't write a bulletproof paper in a forum.

You chose 2 tiny details of what I wrote and 100% ignored the fact that you are trying to argue that some technology will be safe against social engineering against the user (phishing) in perpetuity, which is illogical.
My friend, what you're doing here is called gish galloping. [1] Pick something you find truly compelling and stick with it. A lot of the things you're saying are poorly supported, misleading, or probably plainly false. And FWIW I'm not saying you're doing this intentionally. "We" have been in an information warfare mode for the past 2 years, and the truth is only just recently starting to come out of this mess. We probably won't really know what's happened over the past 2 years for many years yet to come.

So for example, I decided to look up the European Convention on Human Rights things, because it sounded pretty interesting. And what you've been told is not quite what happened. It seems that after the invasion of Ukraine, the relevant bureaucracy chose to suspend Russia's representation in such, so Russia announced a petition to withdraw from the organization, which the Council responded with, 'you can't quit, you're fired!' type stuff. [2]

It's just the ongoing of weaponization of international organizations in the West, which ultimately serves little purpose other than to undermine their relevance and authority. Observe the the grossly incongruent responses to actions of Israel vs those of Russia. Organizations whose actions become driven by politics become seen as political actors, which entirely defeats their purpose.

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[1] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

[2] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Member_states_of_the_Council_o...
Veritasium traffic is far bigger than HN.
Totally not worth it. You've got enough Unix there. Right now I'm considering refreshing my generic laptop, but it's for running Linux, not Windows.
My experience is opposite. Everyone I know that got a quest 2, including me abandoned it after just a few uses. I predict the same for Apple vision.
What’s an example of how those interactions happen organically? ;)
They gave local news away for free. Virtually nobody wanted it
Eye tracking gear is pretty cheap I think. All you need is a webcam capable laptop and github account. They could have done this with a video playing instead of a steady photo, so that you can see where the participant would focus on at realtime response. But make sure the experience is immensive like 5 mins long video or so. Also please do temporal analysis instead of averaging everything out. Because one with a normal mind could have figured out some people will be nervous at first looking at those dark places but then feel safe afterwards. You don't see this if you ignore time as a variable.
I use my vehicle's maintenance screen to track when service work has to be done. But I use fuelly.com to track my mileage.

It's been great but as they have added features, videos, animations, etc. over the years it's become very slow to use on my phone. And the entry fields don't default to numbers anymore (the iPhone used to present the keypad keyboard for them). I've been looking for a lightweight (aka fast) replacement for a while.

https://www.fuelly.com/car/lexus/gx470/2004/chiph/266955

I will say that their site is a great resource to use when shopping for a car, as the mileage they report is by real owners and not EPA estimates. Click "Research Vehicles" - they have everything from Abarth to Yugo.
To add to this with sources:

"Loss of primary station's signal. The translator must be set up to go off the air if the main station's signal is lost." [1] and cites regulations [2][3]

[1] https://www.fcc.gov/media/radio/fm-translators-and-boosters

[2] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-C...

[3] https://www.ecfr.gov/current/title-47/chapter-I/subchapter-C...
GNU libmicrohttpd version 1.0.0 released
Anybody here ever attempted to develop a Desem culture as described in the Laurel's Kitchen Bread Book?
or sexual orientation, or gender, or...
Companies are groups of people who do have cares and it can make a difference, especially what the ceo cares about.
I can only imagine conspiracy theories flying around about government partnership with Cloudflare.
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I concur. In fact, I believe Twitter links should be banned outright. For me, Twitter has blocked my access because I had 2-factor authentication turned on before they started charging extra for it. Now they won't let me view any Twitter content unless I either (1) pay money, or (2) turn off 2-factor authentication. I refuse to do either.
it’s also common for small rust crates to get abandoned
How do babies know how to breathe, or drink milk? We're obviously born with some instinctual "knowledge".
I see more 'Endorse' items than 'Regret' items.

Anyway, amazing write up.

Learning about alternatives to Jira is always good.
Walmart, Delta, and Starbucks are using AI to monitor employee messages
New high-concentration solid polymer electrolyte for HV lithium-metal batteries
> Moore adds that the team behind the chatbot is exploring ways of building an extremely safe AI image generator (…) “Blurring would be a step that we might see internally, but we would want full either darkness or potentially no image at all at the end of it.”

Sign me up!
Maybe I missed the point, but I don't see anything in GPs post that indicates they want people to freeze or die of heat stroke. Or suggest anything that would lead to folks freezing or dying from heat stroke.
The fibre reduces the amount of sugar you absorb from the juice in the fruit.
Slalom Consulting must be excited for the advertising: https://www.slalom.com/
"It's here" being an article published fourteen years after a watershed debunking of many forensics staples.

Fun fact, if anybody was convicted after 2009 using some of the junk science in that report, and they later try to appeal based on the junk science, the appeal judge can say "that science was already known to be flawed during your original trial. You should have challenged it then."
Many people, even those who are well aware that transwomen are men, are somewhat willing to turn a blind eye in bathrooms because, as you noted in your comment, the stalls are enclosed.

But other spaces are much more contentious. Perhaps a less abstract question gets to the point better: do you believe that male-sexed people have the right to undress and shower in a communal changing room with teenage girls?

Even progressives who believe that transwomen are women are usually quite uncomfortable giving an affirmative answer to that one.
So the usual 'it's okay when USA does that, totally not okay when someone else does that'.
I've done it before,too. For toy project, it's easy as you said. It's not once you're at scale. It's hilarious that people are down voting my comment. I guess there are a lot of juniors suffering from the dunning Kruger syndrome around right now
Ask HN: How to break into finance without prior exp. or a prestigious degree?
I have 6+ years of experience as a data scientist and ML engineer. I'm interested in the software engineering or quantitative developer roles in hedge funds, trading firms and investment banks but it seems like they require previous finance experience or a degree from a top university, often both. I'm getting a 0% callback rate from cold applications.

Any tips for getting interviews? Is it even realistic to target these roles?
"My boss says we don't need any engineering managers. Is he right?"
Ask HN: How much is all the free and open source software currently worth in GB?
I believe compiled binaries are not included in this number, but plain text documentation counts
We can always hope that Vision Pro turns into Glasshole 2.0.
I love to clown on Brit’s over their government. Every time I read about the current UK I’m even more happy for the events of 1776 and 1787.

There’s a reason that the UK is slowly losing its 1st world nation status. Self inflicted wounds due to among other things a people who want a nany state. Reap what you sow.
Suspended virtual machine that you resume as needed might be a slightly better experience.

Is there an app like Parallels on Mac that supports seamless mode - it merges the Windows apps with my other windows?
They appear to care about privacy.
I've never been asked for anything pertaining to the UK when entering Ireland anyway.

I go to Ireland regularly but I've decided never to visit the UK again or do business there since Brexit. If they don't want us Europeans there I don't want them :P
No. As technologically cool as electrification is, the power occasionally goes out. When that happens, the heat should not. Not everyone has access to a generator, but gas lines don't need that. Same reason we don't electrify toilet flushing despite potential water savings.
> It's going to show you which app and probably which protocol is going to be used, then you can decide on your own how to proceed.

I was quoting the part that says: "You shouldn’t need to know what messaging app your friends or family use".

> You always have the option to just use the same app? That won't go away, and it will still have advantages

I will not know if the person I'm talking to is using the official Signal app or Tiktok, will I?

> to the point that even the WhatsApp policy change controversy didn't kill it

I think it was only a change in the ToS that was reflecting what they had already been doing in practice for years, right? Most people I know did not really care, they just got exposed to alternatives (Signal, Telegram, Threema), and then realized that WhatsApp was just fine for them.

> The idea is to kill the network effect in chat apps

I am not sure it will, for the same reason almost everybody uses Google Chrome (not a Chromium variant) or Safari even when there is no lock-in: people just use what they are exposed to.

I guess it is nice to force them to have an open API, but forcing WhatsApp to interoperate with some arbitrary alternatives (through e.g. a "Telegram" tab?) risks making WhatsApp weird and creating all sorts of problems.

An open API enables third-party apps, and that's cool. But forcing WhatsApp to support third-party protocols in their own app is just weird to me.
The point that Arc isn't really a "gas-mask" so much as it is a "coal-powered air filtration system." It makes your air clean but it poisons the rest of the environment.
If anyone is interested in further reading, the link references this Psychology Today article[0] which is a synopsis of The Tears of a Clown: Understanding Comedy Writers(2009)[1] by the same author.

PT article also references Pretend the world is funny and forever: a psychological analysis of comedians, clowns, and actors(1981)[2].

Pretty interesting read.

[0]https://www.psychologytoday.com/gb/blog/beautiful-minds/2008...

[1]https://scottbarrykaufman.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/06/Kau...

[2]https://www.bing.com/search?q=site%3Aannas-archive.org+%22Pr...