skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
No it really didn't help much. There are a number of reasons. A tip or a hack cannot solve what is essentially an emotion regulation problem. You probably don't procrastinate on all tasks. For example you can probably read reddit or play games all day. But you dread even starting some tasks. It might be due to multiple reason: past failures, critical feedbacks etc. You will need to introspect and solve that complicated emotion.

Of course, if you notice a broad pattern in every part of your life please consider professional help.
Looks cool but what is the pricing? Get started for free kind of implies that it isn't free after a while or..?
UnitedHealth confirms Optum hack behind US healthcare billing outage
Yeah, define recently.
I've seen multiple accounts from IT/security people who discovered something like "this could get the company in legal trouble" with links to details was exactly what got an otherwise intractable issue resolved.
Interesting. I need to dig into this because this looks like a good solution to my editing dilemma. Thank you for the work, and for the response.
I did something like this nearly 15 years ago at a job. I was trying to use something like MySQL Workbench to export the database and generate a map of connections through foreign keys. Apparently I selected some option backwards and it deleted out the entire production database.

Luckily for me I'd been working on some other things related to it and had taken a backup not long prior, but it was pretty nerve wracking to hear the CTO/CEO nearly running through the halls to find out what had happened.

Pretty sure they never implemented more stringent access controls at that company, either.
The thread cannot be seeing. The link goes to the main site (https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us).
there are several AI features I would absolutely love to see integrated into the browser, primarily, content filtering with my own custom criteria.

for example, I don't want to see yuppie shit on news.ycombinator.com. right now, I have a userscript that filters out links from the worst offenders (e.g. newyorker), but every day, there are many more that shit up the front page and waste my time and attention. this could be solved with a very low parameter LLM by asking it to evaluate whether the text is related to science and technology or not.

hell, even images could be filtered with vision models, including local ones. I'd fucking love to hide a few broad categories of images from my sight, e.g. clickbaity youtube thumbnails (DeArrow helps to a degree)
Either

a. not Windows (which is offtopic given Avast targeted Windows with lip service for MacOS/Linux/Docker) [0]

b. or Windows (in which case they DID run antivirus via Windows Defender)

[0] https://businesshelp.avast.com/Content/Products/SysReqs/SysR...
Control systems for induatrial hardware like container cranes?

Who's gonna do this, some add ware developed from Google or Facebook?

/may contain traces of sarcasm
University libraries can serve a function here. They'll often act as archives for local newspapers and outlets. If a publication is shutting down they should definitely work to transfer their site to some organization that will preserve it.
Yes that was my reasoning
:)
I can definitely imagine they're not covering the amortised cost of the training with the cost per individual inference request. It seems less likely to me that they're making a significant loss on each subsequent request, but again no source from me on that either.

Looking a bit more into this, I found this paper: https://arxiv.org/pdf/2311.16863.pdf. It references a table saying that text generation uses 0.047 kWh per 1000 inferences, which is 1-2 orders of magnitude lower than my estimate. Though that is for GPT2, so possibly tracks to something roughly in the ~0.001 kWh per inference for GPT3.5.
At this point I use
sms only for 2 factor authentication
WhatsApp for connecting with friends and family
Email for rest of the stuff.
At least you get a free USB stick!
Can you give an example of what you mean by “meta programming” and “manual” in this context?

I use pandas regularly, but I’m not sure exactly what you mean here. I’m wondering if you’re referring to some techniques I’m not aware of that could be useful.
Trying to normalise attraction to underage children is absolutely disgusting. It’s not normal. In any bubble. Not on Instagram, not in tech and not in hackernews. Your facts are wrong BUT even if they were correct, does the fact it was happening in the stone ages make it right? We can list a lot of things that happened it the past we ought not to repeat today
Military Convoy to Move Plymouth WW2 Bomb
500kg WW2 bomb found in Plymouth, UK, due to be moved out to sea and detonated.
Do you have any idea how many containers can go on a single cargo ship?

This sounds a lot like suggesting a Walmart manager can “just quickly stick encrypted payload QR codes over each EAN barcode in the store”.
The ones I’m dealing with now aren’t very transparent about these things. I’ve tried fishing a little to see what’s behind it, but need to tread lightly to avoid getting yelled at for an hour.
Nvidia: "We'll pretend you didn't say that."
is tip jars an actual software solutions for tipping? I'm wondering what is most commonly used for tipping websites/content?
What's wrong with jQuery?
All my homies (favorite websites) are jQuery.
There already is all of the necessary equipment in the iss. We’ll have metrics of its deorbit.

There is no black box that will survive reentry.
1994: A Brief Introduction to Shor's Algorithm for Quantum Computers
For different reasons though. AMD's chiplets produce heat in a small area which makes it hard to transfer heat quickly. Intel just use a shitload more power and thus more heat.
> And they don't add any fees, you just pay the duties and taxes.

Are you sure about this? Canada Post's webpage (https://www.canadapost-postescanada.ca/cpc/en/support/articl...) says:

>> We apply a handling fee of CAN$9.95 per dutiable or taxable mail item.
Fair enough. I build it to last 7-10 years typically, so happy to spend a little more on a quality board.

What's the go-to basic mobo brand/board for non-tweakers these days?
Insanely cool :)

One bug though: when I increment the seed, it renders two image and it takes a bit of jumping up and down in seed numbers to get to the same image.
I don't think anyone claims that. The claim that one hears more often is the AI "understands" what it talks about.
Hopefully not, I feel it's a waste of time. The time spent on stupid minor mistakes by github copilot I didn't catch probably doesn't really compare to the time I would've spent typing on my own. (I only use that stuff for fancy code completion, nothing more. Every LLM is absolutely moronic. Yesterday I asked chatgpt to convert gohtml to templ, to no avail ...)
They got caught on camera mutilating bodies. Enjoy TheGuardian HN.

An Al Jazeera reporter has selfies moonlighting with RPGs. 'etc.

A Lie Can Travel Halfway Around the World While the Truth Is Putting On Its Shoes.
Needs a TSA full body scanner to get the real demographics of drink sales.
Lets not forget all the typosquatting looking domains Microsoft uses. It almost seems like they bought them up to protect users, forgot why they did that and said "hey we have all these domains, lets use those?"
> I'm not sure I understand the intended interpretation of this. Concretely speaking, if it cost CoolAI 100k seconds of compute to process a sequence of length 100k, it would not take them 1 second now.

Cost would be lower by a factor of sequence length N = 100,000. If you call the factor C, cost would be lower by C × N. For most models and context lengths today, C is below 1. As we continue to increase sequence length N -- say, as we go from 100K to 100M tokens, incorporating multiple modalities -- factor C will increase toward 1 for all Transformers.

Again, I see how what I wrote could be misinterpreted. Sorry about that!
Procrastination can be bad if pathological, but it's a great heuristic in the absence of information (close to optimal).

I think people over think it, causing excessive anxiety to themselves.

Why is it a good evolved strategy? Because of uncertainty:

If something is due at some deadline in the future, the further we're from that deadline, the larger the chance that whatever the task is won't be necessary. So waiting for it to become more certain and do something else makes sense in terms of reducing effort (energy expenditure).

Don't try to solve for it, just focus on getting the right things done and learn to let go of things that really don't matter.

I would recommend reading "Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity".

It helped me a lot being successful at that point of my career where I had more things to do than time to do them (spoiler alert: you just don't do some shit, it really doesn't matter).
Cuba imports 80%+ of its food. It received extensive soviet industrial agriculture consults. It is not a counter example.
> Brand damage (content), e.g. Cancel culture, etc when old articles are discovered later or seen in new light

I have yet to see any major such instances, especially to brands. PR firms can do quite a lot for the right money.

The general “victims” I have seen are individuals post varying criminal charges (eg R Kelly).
Reader mode gets rid of it, at least on Edge
How long before we realize Israel is behaving like a loose cannon, willing to commit any depravity in order to complete the genocide and deportation of the Palestinian people?
I support them in their fight against how you guys pronounce certain things compared to how it is spelled. I'm not from the US though but Worcestershire sauce....come on.
I miss acccess too. Good old days
Meta is a company. Apple is a religion.
On that, we absolutely agree! Im the end so, those who let some calculation decide for them and those who just throw solutions at the wall, are equally bad at decision making.

I know, because I made my share of bad decisions, especially early on in my career.
The hitch guide to the solar system
Did you upgrade your entire PC or just the GPU? A CPU from today is going to perform much better than one vs. 10 years ago.
In what world are you living in? That's maybe true in noob land. Literally all the problems I have are being solved in github issues, if at all. When has documentation been 90% sufficient for anything? In the 80s?

/e: sorry, sounds a bit stand off-ish.

Let me give an example: I was trying to find a way to clone a gorm query to keep the code clean. The documentation doesn't have anything (no, .Session isn't a solution) and the only place I had was issues discussing that. Apparently you can't. So I'll be ditching gorm and move to pgx in the near future. That's how it happens for me all the time. The documentation is lacking the hard part, always.
We're fantastic correlation engines with a bit of randomness thrown for flavor.
I love this game! It's really satisfying and addictive. Nice work.

One suggestion: I have a friend who is color-blind and has a hard time seeing the red and green numbers. Maybe add a visual indicator? Thanks!
The previous PG WASM projects from Crunchy and Snaplet have run Postgres in a VM and required a large 32MB download.

This is pure WASM, no VM, 3.7MB download. Plus it has persistent storage.
Self-driving could be one way to fix the problem at some hand-wavy time in the future. Right now, however, reducing the number of cars in cities, slowing them down, making alternatives to driving more attractive, improving driver education and awareness, and changing the concept of car safety to include people outside the vehicle are all options available to us. Unlike automated driving, these address other problems our society faces, too, like obesity, insularity, pollution, and climate change.
After 14 years in the industry, I still find programming difficult
Retool is popular for building internal dashboards on top of you data. It has been there for many years
Stuff Happening at Dropbox
It seems you missed Librem 5 then.
This really makes me wonder if we can go full circle at fast-food restaurants like McDonalds. Ordering at a counter (10 seconds) has been replaced in recent years with touching a giant screen (2+ minutes).

This demo really shines light on how you could "talk" to place your order in a comparatively fast amount of time, similar to speaking with a human. Yes it can't handle all the million corner cases, and it will get it wrong a bunch of the time, but at least you can verify your order on a screen before tapping your phone to pay.
Perjury is lying under oath, not disagreeing with government guidelines.
Show HN: PGCacheWatch: Real-Time PostgreSQL Cache Invalidation Made Easy
PGCacheWatch offers a straightforward solution to cache invalidation challenges by harnessing PostgreSQL's NOTIFY/LISTEN features. With support for various invalidation strategies and a simple API, it's the ideal library for developers looking to maintain high performance and data integrity with minimal overhead.
Yup, this is based on work by Neon. Also the Neon model allows you to sync in a database on demand, whilst scaling to zero when you’re not using it.
We might be shite at routine, but technology isn't!

Nothing wrong with having "brush teeth" as a daily task in Todoist or whatever flavour of todo app you click with! :)

The "Due" app on iOS is particularly nice for these sort of routine tasks - it'll keep notifying you every x minutes until you tell it you've done it
Indeed. I've yet to see a single youtube evaluation video of Gemini that didn't at some point point out that Gemini is hallucinating or trying to convince the user of something that's total bullshit.

It's pretty clever about it. Doing this like. "Smart, clear, eloquent fact A, phrased longer than necessary. Bullshit (short sentence). Smart, clear, eloquent fact B, phrased longer than necessary".

But the bullshit is always ... pointing in the same direction. I must say I wonder if it isn't exactly the result of what is being blamed. The "wokeness". Regardless of the actual ideology people are trying to impose on the model ... at least in some cases the model is lying to make it's answers satisfy what is obviously a political ideology imposed on it.

Because look at those pictures. To a transformer, pictures are stories. A long sequence of tokens that convey thoughts. They are very largely correct. There's a clear Hollywood influence, as you'd expect, but otherwise they're mostly correct. If you took the total amount of information in those pictures, I bet you'd find 99% of it matches the training data! And making the characters black or asian is a little hallucination somewhere in the middle of the picture's story. And, surprise! Those modifications are there ... because that's EXACTLY the ideology Google is trying to impose on the model.

Could it be that the model is lying ... because it thinks that's exactly what you've asked it to do? "System prompts" mostly are just pasted before the input. If the system prompt says "assume all historical accomplishments were by black or asian people", then the model will assume that's what you want!

Makes you wonder ... how often are "hallucinations" the result of the model not making a mistake, but "purposefully" lying to make it's answer comply with a particular worldview? Because that's what you asked it to do, if you look at your full input, including Google's system prompt?

Hell, I'd ask the same question about a lot of human answers too. As soon as a subject becomes even a little bit controversial, people outright lie en masse. I know nobody wants to admit it but that's exactly how humans work.
In the case of football that might actually be a good lesson: save enough energy for the end of the game so that you can play best when the other team is tired. Of course you need to play the whole game, but if you play all but the last 5 minutes working just hard enough to keep a tie game, then you can pull ahead in the end.

This only works in time limited sports though. Most real world situations are not time limited like that and so the advice doesn't apply.
I mean it's great for 99% of your passwords and pretty much forces people into using randomized generated passwords.. but I still have to remember at least ONE password by heart. Whether it's 32 characters or 16 or what not, I still need SOME way to get into my password manager to even get to my passwords. So what, I'm going to make my password tacokissies69 and.. what, add a 0 every 6 months so I pass the 20 password minimum?

So a hacker can infer that my password is tacokissies69000 of some sort..
Windows on a gaming PC, Mac for Work and Ubuntu for the daily driver. I’m going to be replacing the Windows PC with steam deck once I scrounge the cash for it.
I only did it because they’re requiring anyone who wants to launch their own self hosted install, to join this exact discord and fill out an application form….

So anyone who wants to run this, has to join that discord anyway. You can find it in the blog post.
So I can't call out clickbait titles that seem intentionally deceptive? Less of a name collision and more of a name 'drive my car off a bridge for clicks'.
Maybe not in the world, but in my country (the Netherlands) in 2022 (last available data) there were 473 million packages send to 8.3 million households, which works out to a bit more than one package per household per week.
Then isn't it better when they're upfront about it?
Everyone's having a field day dunking on Michio Kaku for talking out of his field but let's be realistic - everyone talks out of their ass here, all the time. This community is particularly well known for its strain of aggressive ignorance on all sorts of subjects, with physics threads especially being peppered with crankery. If we limited conversation on HN only to people with relevant, real world experience in the subject being discussed, this place would turn into a mausoleum. Kaku claiming AI is a glorified tape recorder is no more or less insightful than the countless people here parroting "humans also do x" on the other side. It's an emotional argument.

Maybe instead of attacking the person, it would be better to attack their argument. As of my writing this, there are 36 comments and not one seems willing or capable of making a coherent, technical counterargument. It's just "lol who's this nerd?"
I think windows has moved away from executing autorun exes from discs by default a few versions ago. But back in the day it would prompt you what to do when you insert a USB storage drive, and just run whatever's set as the autorun if it's on a disc.

The common way to get USB malware to install automatically those days was to modify the USB drive to appear as a virtual disc drive, which worked.
its not about having the chops to do it well, its about not importing every feature under the sun just because you want to do intern's first marketing analytics campaign.

earlier in the conversation someone talked about pasting a snippet. We're talking about the "chops" to not paste a snippet that is hundreds of thousands of lines long. A snippet so long it would crash many editors.
Hmm, perhaps I'm mistaken then!
The most effective advice I read was to accept that one is prone to procrastination and to simply push through on small tasks and then reward yourself with a break afterwards.
It works the same way as muscle training, over time it gets easier and the breaks become less frequent.

Proper breaks can also give you the opportunity to get up and walk around instead of perpetually doom scrolling or staring at a blank screen. So it's a double win.
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Talk about a clickbait headline ;-)
https://hypermedia.systems/hyperview-a-mobile-hypermedia/

https://hyperview.org

https://htmx.org/essays/splitting-your-apis/

https://htmx.org/essays/two-approaches-to-decoupling/

https://htmx.org/essays/mvc/
The loan they went after him for in NY was repaid in full, and the bank did not complain about "overvaluation" because they know the risks and did their due diligence. Court agents who got elected on a platform of anti-Trumpism are abusing the courts to try to put him out of business. NYC and possibly the whole state are now banana republic territory where you can be attacked for political reasons. Nobody sane should want to do business there until they prove otherwise.
Exercise is a thing for me. It really helps when I do something regularly but it's not something which comes naturally to me.

Other than that, I think all of the tips and blogs aren't useful -- except if they give you that little dopamine hit to actually pick up something and get started. Which in my experience is the only useful advice, pick something and do it. The momentum from doing something rather than nothing is often enough to carry you through to the next thing.
If the location of the container changes while the ship is underway, you've got bigger issues than RFID tracking!
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Two then-current NIST standards (62 and 71?) side by side gave contradictory advice. It is a step forward though for sure.
My company does that too, it's really annoying. They also sometimes send out mass emails for things like surveys but link to some third party service. I've even seen them put, in the email, things like "the link goes to a trusted third party and is perfectly safe". Why should I trust that if I'm already suspicious of the emails legitimately?
> Of all people to loose faith it would be Luke? Riiiight.

Yes; Luke never really dealt with betrayal. He only ever knew Darth Vader, so he wasn't betrayed by Anakin the way Obi-wan and Yoda were.

> And Han and Leia just have to be divorced? Ok.

Your son switching over to the side of the people who blew up your home planet would put a strain on any marriage.

> And their son just has to be evil. ... Ok.
I'm actually with you on this one; Anakin's final transformation to Darth Vader was rushed, but at least the seeds were there from episode 1. As far as I remember, Kylo just turned evil because the Force wanted him to.
We are having a disagreement over population ethics and the impact of AGW - I could hardly think of a less bro-y discussion if I tried.

I absolutely support population control, but all of my replies have been in reference to the specific scenario suggested of lowering population to 1 billion.
I got an sms from "Nikki Haley" the other week asking me to join some political rally. This has SUCH potential for abuse.

A) spreading misinformation. Not hard to confuse people that their polling location is closed but the inconvenient one across town is still open

B) fake fundraising. Blast out an sms from "citizens for action" who need money to support ${popular cause/candidate}
That hasn't been my experience. I don't get to choose who I work with, my days are stressful and unfulfilling, and my career has stagnated.
Show HN: CartoSVG – create beautiful map visualizations easily
This project aims at making the creation of rich interactive maps easy, with no compromise on the visual quality.

A goal is also to export the final SVG as lightweight as possible, with no dependency on external libraries, which are usually needed to have interactive maps on a website.

I posted it before, but now the app has a nice landing page and some animations!
My bad. That’s not been an issue in my code, as I use arenas to manage memory and never put an owning container as key in a HashMap.
Path planning is highly dynamic and requires real time adjustment. In mature software, the heuristics are already highly optimized for local road/traffic data and users. So, I don't think AI can actually outperform them yet.
> have to type 10-20 per day

Same problem here. My solution: Get a mouse with internal memory for macros, such as Natec Genesis GX78 (old, no longer available, but this is an example). Program your new password on one of the unused mouse buttons or in a different profile. Use the mouse to type the password.
That's the converse of PP's comment.
Well doesn’t the compute time for transformers scale roughly quadratically with model size?

Would it make sense for power consumption to also scale roughly quadratically?