skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On a tangent, my neighbor came to me about a month ago and asked if I was a "hacker"?

He's around 75 and has known me for maybe 20 years, we're not close friends but we run into each other every now and then and he knows I work with IT; I'm about half his age.

Long story short, I find out he needs help to retrieve his bitcoin wallet because he's lost $300k. I spend an hour looking around his devices and find out he's been buying bitcoin from a young hip instagram lady in Florida.

Wait for it…

…they shared access to the wallet.

He had a chat log stretching back one year on whatsapp with her, he was now paying her smaller sums to cover the cost for some "hacker" to retrieve his wallet.

¯\_(ツ)_/¯
It's absolutely a username. It can be changed arbitrarily whenever you like, and you'll probably in the future be able to have more than one name for the same underlying account, but it's still a username.

Other services do this too. For instance, you can sign up for some services with an email, and that's what you use to sign in, and you might be able to find other people by email if they let you, but you don't necessarily get shown someone's email on their profile, just the display name in their profile. And (in a well-designed service) you can change your email address at any time.
Doesn't stop them from trying to collect after the transaction is declined. It's not a prepaid service, you're agreeing to pay the charges _after_ you've used the service.

Will they pursue? Do they have enough info to purse? Who knows, but they can if they want to.
Fun fact: if you disaggregate London GDP from the UK GDP, the rest of the UK is as poor as the state of Mississippi.
Thank you, for govt employees aloowing only .gov email addresses and then cross referencing public records seems like the way to go!

I'll look up some services for the civilian side.

Appreciate all the responses
Oh, your assumptions were wrong
The issue there is "veI0city66". Depending on the font that capital "I" might look identical to a lower case "l". A hash with an alphabet that doesn't include homoglyphs would reduce ambiguity.

There's also the "weedlordbonerhitler69" issue. A user name that seemed hilarious at 16 likely seems less hilarious at 26.

If users were identified with a hash derived from an input user name you could type in "weedlordbonerhitler69" and what would be displayed is a hash on the client side. The contact add UI could simply return the UID for the input username. So you could give out the UID or username and another user could still add you.
In addition to spy photography, pigeons were being trained to guide missiles at one point by pecking on a screen. Project Orcon (for ORganic CONtrol) was the name of the program. It doesn't appear to have been used for any actual bombings. The trainers said their biggest issue was just getting people to take them seriously. The project was canceled as electronic controls became available.
I think it would be interesting if like the website ranking that is done on Kagi there was a way to rate the search results to lower or higher it's ranking in search results. It would be a little different though since the website ranking on Kagi is for users but ranking the search results might just improve the intended search result that many people are looking for.

I guess this assumes that you aren't already doing that when they click one option over another for a certain search term.

Just thinking about searching through some documentation sites and you get a dumb result you weren't looking for at the top, and would want to deprioritize that result.
The findings of our first generative AI experiment: gov.uk Chat
How big of a query do you have to make to get charged $14k...? Isn't it billed by data transfer
It's difficult to own a library end-to-end. Ownership needs to include deployment and runtime monitoring.
You must not have intrusive thoughts... :D

Perhaps that some people have telepathic powers and that will be discovered.

Besides that, all the usual inscrutable ailments that people may suffer from, adhd, sz, bpd, tourette etc...
Amazon actually emailed the customer thinking it was the seller.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd....
I haven't looked at the exact schema for this dataset but for this type of query pattern to be efficient the data would need to be partitioned by date.^[1] I'm guessing that it's not partitioned this way and therefore each of these queries that was looking at "one month" of data was doing a full table scan, so if you queried N months you did N table scans even though the exact same query results could have been achieved even without partitioning by doing one table scan with some kind of aggregation (e.g. GROUP BY) clause.

[1]: https://cloud.google.com/bigquery/docs/partitioned-tables
> On the opposite end of the spectrum, users who want to live on the edge can enable an optional setting that allows them to receive incoming “sealed sender” messages from non-contacts and people with whom they haven’t shared their profile or delivery token. This comes at the increased risk of abuse, but allows for every incoming message to be sent with “sealed sender,” without requiring any normal message traffic to first discover a profile key.

By default, the first message between someone and you clearly identifies who is communicating with whom. That's enough.
I pay for Kagi. I also have a small hobby site and would love to try this out.
So looking at the timeline of DNA diversification in birds, the biggest spread occurred 10's millions of years before the asteroid mass extinction, and net there was not so much after the asteroid hit itself. Makes sense to me as I imagine birds were hit with devastated ecosystems and had to adapt, though I imagine their greater range made them more resilient.
Google does not care about bad PR like this. It doesn't affect their biggest customers.
Oracle and IBM have detailed pricing tables with dozens of cases like "one mainframe core is worth three Intel cores". But then you negotiate the price anyway so it seems kind of pointless.
YC Early Interviews S24 Discussion
The whole "your phone number is your user ID" was always the dumbest trend in instant messaging and I have no idea how it caught on.
European quotation marks commonly have the left one down low and the right one up high. The same applies for single quotes. But using comma-backtick is deeply unorthodox.
No. In fact, Erlang was open-sourced because Ericsson gave up on it. From wikipedia:

> In February 1998, Ericsson Radio Systems banned the in-house use of Erlang for new products, citing a preference for non-proprietary languages. The ban caused Armstrong and others to make plans to leave Ericsson. In March 1998 Ericsson announced the AXD301 switch, containing over a million lines of Erlang and reported to achieve a high availability of nine "9"s. In December 1998, the implementation of Erlang was open-sourced and most of the Erlang team resigned to form a new company Bluetail AB. Ericsson eventually relaxed the ban and re-hired Armstrong in 2004.

I know this seems like a black mark on Erlang. I think it just demonstrates the difficulty of carving a new niche. Training developers in a new language and paradigm is hard.
If I understand correctly it’ll still not be possible to create an account without entering a phone number?

For me this is a requirement to call a service a private service because in Germany at least every phone number is connected with a persons identity. To get a phone number you need to connect it to an identity using a identity card
You are not alone in those feelings!
Titan is likely habitable for life as we know it. It's hard to imagine why Titan won't have life around hydrothermal vents and the like.
Yup, just highlighting that it goes beyond more than just runtime checking for safeness of unsafe code only :)
Do you really think people go into academia as faculty expecting to become rich, only to end up disillusioned? They can't be that smart then, lol. I don't think I've ever met a single faculty member who was there out of good business sense.
Ah thanks! I had seen this trilemma referred to before but never read the source until now.

From the scoped task trilemma:

> Assuming that we are not adding linear types to Rust, ...

Going back to my earlier post, I still wonder if some (theoretical) language with linear types would be able to do structured concurrency with convenient borrows and so-on? (The issues seem related to late drops, leaks, etc).
Given that their motivation for this is to find more sites and pages to index, it seems like it should improve the quality (or at least quantity) of results thanks to a larger index.
>repetitive PM chores like cleaning up the backlog or drafting changelog updates.

This is something PMs are supposed to do?
In a word, no.

Why weren't executives and boardrooms held liable? That would have been a great start. Actually putting teeth behind regulations, clawing back bonuses and invalidating golden parachutes and culpable executives going to prison, preferably for a long time. None of the executives involved should legally be allowed to work in finance again.

If I as an individual pulled the stunts they did, or a smaller organization did, they'd be labeled fraudsters and prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

What TARP and its aftermath proves is that if you're big enough, you escape all real liability for your actions, and the public and your employees get to suffer the consequences.

Why should executives and boardrooms be left off the hook while the American public pays the price?
I will echo this. A product with no pricing information will often just get no further exploration, especially if a competitor does have it. Don't underestimate the overhead of just having to talk sales before you have a price.
Do you have any data backing that argument? I could just as well make the argument that Rust has an extensive "correctness above all else" culture that encourages people to thoroughly review pull requests. Without data both of these claims are just that: claims.
I wonder what the smallest circular OLED display is. There are 01005 LEDs (the next size down from the 0201's used here) but at that point an OLED display is essentially the same thing.
Very happy to see someone did this, because I had the same idea many years ago, but it seemed infeasible.
> The whole part of accusing Google should just be ignored.

I don't know. Google could trivially solve this problem by imposing an opt-out warning on potentially expensive queries.

"It looks like your query might cost $14k. Are you sure?"

But money.
IYUM that you've asserted it for years without argument, but rarely managed to persuade anyone.

Try arguing with arguments instead of asserting. Something like "Tokenization superficially appears to be a boost just like lexers appear to help parsers on first glance, but on closer reflection it's a net negative because [insert arguments here]".
In the side by side view, I think the old crown is more easily recognizable. Maybe because it is wider while the newer one is more of a round shape and, at a glance, looks more like a ball.
That is correct. I should have been clearer in my distinction. You can run your own server but that server won't connect to the official Signal network. You're completely fine to run your own[0]. FWIW I've seen other software roll their own servers and use the Signal protocol. I mean WhatsApp uses the Signal protocol but I think they've diverged a lot since.

[0] There's always talk about the big deal breaker for Signal being that it isn't federated. So I've always wondered why this passion isn't used to generate a federated Signal network and is more focused on Matrix (who only recently started being E2EE). I don't know how these things work, I'm not that kind of programmer, but I can't see why you couldn't modify the server code to work in a federated fashion and edit the app code to be able to connect to both? I'm actually interested to know why if someone actually has an answer.
Thank you! The response caught me by surprise. Working on this now & adding a few links below for ref in the meantime:

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1595671863?pt=12263...

https://twitter.com/SwiftMail_io

https://mastodon.social/@SwiftMail

mailto:contact@swiftmail.io
I don't think that's where the difference lies, no. Sampling from a markov model built from English n-gram frequencies will produce non-repeated, mostly grammatical English text, which frequently is even sensible-sounding once n >= 4 or so.

But I don't think there's anything going on in language generation beyond "based on the current context, produce an appropriate output token for that context based on the observed and inferred distribution of training inputs". I think that's also how human language generation works, though "the context" for humans includes a lot more than just a few thousand words of text. But I think that the surprising thing about e.g. GPT-4 is how well it does the thing, rather than the fact that it does the thing at all.
You may be interested in this FF extension: https://hw.leftium.com/#/item/34214799

> Banger lets you execute !bangs client-side without having to send a request to a search engine's server each time you fetch a bang.

Also with Kagi custom bangs you can use the AirBnB URL you extracted yourself: https://help.kagi.com/kagi/features/bangs.html#custom-bangs

---

I'm designing "search runes," which will be an enhanced version of DDG bangs.

- The web app will eventually allow executing "bangs" directly on the target site as you desire. (Currently just falls back on Kagi.com)

- You will also be able to customize/share your own bangs. (Similar to https://multi-launch.leftium.com/)

- Latest prototype: https://bangtastic.vercel.app/

- Very minimal right now, but I already use it on a daily basis. It provides:

1. An easier way to type `!` on mobile. (Just tap `SPACE` 1-2 times)

2. A way to browse all 13,566 (normalized) DDG bangs.

3. Also works from browser omni-bar! (After you register the search engine)
Oh, good catch! Yes, that does look like something that can be coerced into limiting it. Having actually tried to click through, it is very much not as simple as "don't spend more than $X"; the doc points to https://console.cloud.google.com/iam-admin/quotas and you have to find and set the right quota, but yes that can probably help.
It is not "just a different way". There's no reason to assume impact melting from the surface is the only source of carbon in Titan's ocean. The authors of the study seem clear on this. I don't know why you feel the need to stand up for phys.org on this, or why you think the Sahara is relevant.
> but not all clients support that yet

The mantra of every network that stays mediocre and never achieves critical mass
70% of Top Sites Still Set Third Party Cookies
> I keep seeing versions of the argument that we’re all unique snowflakes and so all science is bad and all advice is untrustworthy bs.

I keep seeing people take statements that are valid within reason to the extreme.

In broad strokes, most things about humans are true, but there is certainly nuance and variation between people. Probably because we don't fully understand the things we think we do.
> The lack of any kind of backup/export for iOS is the main thing keeping me from recommending Signal.

"No one can read your chats, including you." — Signal
Resizing VMs doesn't really fit the "cattle" thinking of public cloud, although IMO that was kind of a premature optimization. This would be a perfect use case for live migration.
That ban wouldn't be lifted if DJI rrleased all their source code, showed their belly and wagged their tail.

I mean, the central point is straight where everyone's focusing:

> But broadly speaking, U.S. drone makers say they expect to see a sales bump this year even though the new ban on federal purchases is not yet in effect.
That that was his intention is the impression he left, with people like me at least - a quick glance shows its price only went down after he stepped down. Who knows how much he has invested/made ¯ \ _ ( ツ ) _ / ¯ I don't hold it against him if he is a true believer. I feel like integrating it makes as much sense as Twitter becoming a payment processor, but hey.
Because remnants of the "middle age" are not too easy to find these days and when you have a good one you tend to hold on to it. I'm British and I don't want to see the monarchy disappear.
We just applied today, and we were able to get our application reviewed by some YC Alumni whom we knew beforehand, one of whom offered to refer us. We also got accepted into another accelerator starting in April.

We just wanted to know if there was a deadline by which we will be hearing back in terms of getting an early interview or not. I guess there was no specific date indicated in that announcement, so I assume that no news is not necessarily good news, and thus if we don't get an early interview, we probably won't be considered for the actual interviewing period?
You are right that this sort of sales style has its downsides. I am also not saying there's no value in having something on the page, or that Oxide is always going to be this way. I am just talking about why it is a norm in many parts of the B2B world.
The claim is that some day innovations, and checks, and some other technologies will fix this and do all of this automatically, somehow.

That's why it's still early days.
Have you tried getting in touch with GCP to see if they would refund the charge? I've heard plenty of stories of cloud services refunding large one-off accidental spends like this one.
Assuming the hardware wallet is safe, and that you indeed check all the recipient addresses and make no mistakes there, I don't see how the software should be able to fool you, though? I would assume that the hardware wallet is built to never leak your private key, at least not when signing a transaction, and the signature that it produces would always be for the exact transaction (recipient, amount, data,...) that you checked (since we assume the hardware wallet to be safe). Can you explain?
True, but how does this draw any concern away from Google having a major control in browser usershare?
I think LlamaParse is trying to solve a hard problem. Many enterprise customers I know have strong need to parse PDF files and extract data accurately.
I found the interface a bit confusing. From your blog post, LlamaParse can extract numbers in tables, but it appears that the output isn't provided in tabular format. Instead, access to these numbers is only available through a question-answering. Is this accurate?
This is a matter of a user not having read some fine prints, which doesn't mean that they're necessarily at fault. The only way to know which of the user, httparchive.org, or Google BQ is most responsible is to know how often similar situations arise in this specific context (i.e. using BQ by way of httparchive.org).
Can OpenAI create superintelligence before it runs out of cash?
Is it the same story covered in Made You Look and Driven to Abstraction?
Very much clicked for me.

Loved this line:

"I’ll discuss a few boring things we do that help us keep things boring."
https://archive.ph/W1WMF
That is one of the options. We already run a software studio with some of my software engineer friends but we need more clients. Thanks for the advice.
The Long-Term Costs of Wind Turbines
Would this be the same “educated, wealthy, forward looking population” that voted for Brexit?
> It cannot be compared perfectly, but you can try to estimate its perf/$

Hardly.

I don't see how one would be able to identify and normalize all the required variables, e.g. median life expectancy, average performance across metrics per watt, average power usage, residual value, etc.

For instance, I can sell my 2017 MacBook Pro for roughly twice as much as my 2017 Thinkpad, which has better specs. How do you factor that?
Because if we had a glut of those metals their price would drop below the cost of retrieving them.
Same in Spain since 2004 Madrid train bombings IIRC.
It's hard to see on that graph but the last 4 years have been on a downward trend i.e. still increasing but increasing less per year than the decade before:

https://www.co2.earth/co2-acceleration

See the graph at the bottom titled "Annual CO2 Growth Rates"

This is apparently partly due to el nino effects, but still, it leaves a small opening for hope.
Yet I'd wager most HN readers have a grand total of zero XMPP contacts. Myself included. Proving the GPs point.
Very interesting. Does this cover all the companies founded by Tesla alumni?
Exploring Time and Frequency masking augmentations for EEG spectrograms.
At the time I thought the dumbest thing they did was sell Vudu. Now buying a TV brand with its own streaming service after selling off the successful one is the dumbest move.
Apologies for the website bandwidth issue! The response caught me by surprise.

Working on this now & adding a few links below for ref in the meantime:

https://apps.apple.com/app/apple-store/id1595671863?pt=12263...

https://twitter.com/SwiftMail_io

https://mastodon.social/@SwiftMail

mailto:contact@swiftmail.io
My Typical Day as a Member of Technical Staff at OpenAI
> you see when it's a space egg, it's a single token

I'm not sure if the crew of the Nostromo would agree ;)
Total mass as measured by gravitation effect.
Well, Trump said there were a million people at his inauguration (I know, this was an absurd bald face lie). I don’t know how much it costs to rent, set up and take down that many chairs, but I’m going to guess it was more than three fifty.
That's useful but not quite sufficient for this use case, though. The different devices currently have no way to sync chat history, so you'd lose all your old chats.

What I'd love to have is the ability to connect my phone and my laptop to the same Signal account, have them automatically sync chat history between each other, and then in the future if I add a new phone (e.g. because I've upgraded) my phone can sync from my laptop and get all of my message history.
> Or were you trying to imply this is unfixable?

If it's been known since 2015 and not fixed, that's pretty suggestive.
Ah, I guess you're right then, my bad, long live the king then! :D
It'd be quite ironic if they A/B tested this.
That study itself shows mixed results and tradeoffs, and so I think saying it is about regular users vs. power users does this a dis-justice... they didn't even find an effect for leading (which is what most people seem to want to manipulate).
these people you're talking about would make the same mistake with code written in any language.
No, I do not think that doctors are particularly good with statistics. Nor do I think that OOP analogies are a good way to describe what a degree is.
At the end of the day, the problem with this model is that it expects free labor to take over the next part. Which might work for a little bit -- until it doesn't. Then you have the situation we're currently in where everything related to matrix is mediocre.
> 0. You just DO WHATEVER THE FUCK YOU WANT TO as long as you NEVER LEAVE
A FUCKING TRACE TO TRACK THE AUTHOR of the original product to blame for
or held responsible.

A thing of beauty^_^ I've seen a lot of licenses that require attribution[0], so a license that explicitly demands that you not credit the author is a lovely twist:)

[0] Read: Nearly all of them; even permissive BSD-like licenses usually(?) require that much.
"Last week I ran a script on BigQuery for historical HTTP Archive data and was billed $14,000 by Google Cloud with zero warning whatsoever, *and they won’t remove the fee.*"
It happens everywhere. The North African cousins of these Canarians enslaved and presumably killed well over a million Europeans.

https://mapsontheweb.zoom-maps.com/post/742848945914609664/b...