skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Ditto the fact that the "new document" icon in Google Workspace is all the way at the bottom right, even on a huge monitor.

Even on mobile it's easy to miss! Google makes it a white button with a thin gray shadow, usually against white rows separated by thin gray lines.

If you squint, it literally becomes invisible because its visible weight is identical to its surroundings.

IIRC it used to be the solid accent color with white text, so you couldn't miss it. But now it's almost invisible unless you know where to look for it. It really is baffling.
Sometimes the courts get it right
Nice idea! From the perspective of someone who is in need of such a solution, I have explored similar apps before, and one of the biggest issues was that I don't look for events regularly (frequency is once a week or two). As a result, I tend to forget the name of the platform when I actually need it.

I don't have a lot of suggestions on how to solve this but if your platform can be consistently visible to your users, that would help you a lot with adoption.
That's generally why I distrust any of the anti-woke comments about these generators. It's incredibly easy just to fake evidence with these tools and people just lap up the results.

Yea, it's a problem when actual historical depictions are portrayed incorrectly - which they said they'd fix - but screeching about getting POC when typing "British woman"? Welcome to the other side, I guess. When the default for "[adjective] person" was always someone white for so long, I guess seeing other results makes people mad.
You mean like Estes rockets? I've taken my kids to the local elementary school grass field and launched them many times. We've never had an issue.
click on time since posted to get a flag button - exactly why hn works this way is a bit of a mystery, to me at least
We have many exciting things planned that we can't reveal just yet :)
A word blocklist just serves to apply guardrails. It just slows down common abuse. Very far from perfect, but the alternatives are anything goes or total lockdown. Perfect solutions are pretty damn rare.
I recently moved my macOS installation to an external Thunderbolt drive - it's faster than the internal SSD.
Making an analog decision correctly day after day for the rest of your life is more difficult for many than making a binary decision once.

I know I have some self-control limitations and abuse tendencies in my ancestry. I can decide (and have) to never try heroin. Problem avoided.
Maybe, but it didn't translate to mobile at all.

Flat design has been the attempt to try to create a unified design language across desktop and mobile, since most people are constantly switching between the two and using the same apps across both.
On the other hand, if you are writing repetitive code - are you missing an easy abstraction? Or if not, some easy code gen? If I find myself starting to write repetitive code It usually means I did something wrong.
None of this should be a mystery. Making a bomb is literally something you can figure out with very little research (my friends and I used to blow up cow pastures for fun!).

Racism is a totally different and sadder issue. I don’t have a good answer for that one, but knowledge shouldn’t be withheld because someone thinks it is “dangerous”
Agents and transformers are kinda different things, built on different layers.
>that effectively extends the English grammar to include the entire world state

Exactly! So glad we're on the same page.

Language is created by and intended for big brains with huge amounts of knowledge about each other and about the world. Relying on external knowledge makes it extremely compact and flexible, but also means your parser needs a similar level of knowledge to function.
Yeah, someone else mentioned Tokyo which is not going to have as much variety among park visitors as NYC. But then again neither will Colorado (or almost anywhere else!) be as diverse. Some genius at corporate is probably scheming about making image generation as location-sensitive as search is, ostensibly to provide utility but really to perpetuate echo chambers and search bubbles. I wish computing in general would move back towards user-controlled rather than guess-what-I-mean and the resulting politicization, but it seems that ship has sailed.
Nobody knows a vehicle is insecure when they buy it. It's simpler, more cost efficient, and more valuable to society just to require cars to have basic security features. Your idea of market correction doesn't work in this case, because it's never advertised as having shitty security, and the average (or even informed) consumer will have no idea this is a problem until after they've bought the car.
The concern is that companies have long known that it's bad for business if your product is a toxic cesspit or can be used to generate horrible headlines that reflect poorly on your brand.

It's not "woke," and it's not censorship. It's literally the free market.
I agree with the Twitter OP: they're embarrassed about what they've created.
Sorry, doing our best here :)
My single task devices are:

A digital audio player, mostly when walking and resting.

An ereader for reading fiction books.

A PS4 for games. I don’t game on my phone or computers.

Home theater setup for movies.

My other devices are more location and usage restricted. Like my iPad for drawing, reading PDFs and comics, but it still has some apps so it can quicly serve as an alternative for my laptop (writing, managing servers,…)
have you ever used tinygo? I have been curious how much that project gets used. It seems to me that rust is probably going to be the language of choice some point in the future.
I'd have liked to see the distribution of generated model performance.
Agreed. I'm currently saving a data field for 'product category' but this is defined by the store owner and currently not used for search. Trying to figure out the most reliable way to categorize products, to then make it available as a filter to narrow down the selection.

Additionally, the search for "snowboard" vs "snowboards" returns back different results which isn't ideal: since the user intent is the same. This is something I'm hoping to resolve with AI-powered search.

In the footer, I changed my location to be South Africa and a few other countries to try the same search to see what products come up. Thanks for the feedback and heads up on this!
Gemini was race swapping white with black, so 1940 german soldiers generated pics had black/asian/female soldiers. They patched it quickly after that.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/2/21/24079371/google-ai-gemini...
Or just get a stick pc that plugs in via hdmi
Did you try GPT4? That isn't my experience though. It can explain fairly complex machine learning model to me with high accuracy.
Ruby Could Use a Heap
I guess the answer may be that they can ask the CNCF to archive them, but the CNCF/Linux Foundation technically controls the domain and trademarks. So I guess they would need the CNCF to release those back to the project if they wanted to withdraw or move to another foundation. Interesting.

> Trademarks and domain names of archived projects are still hosted by the CNCF and the Linux Foundation

> The project is free continue development in its repositories, ideally with a goal to reactivate itself

https://github.com/cncf/toc/blob/main/process/archiving.md#a...
Why does Thunderbird need to support maildir?

I just never understood this use case.
Completely unrelated, enough excuses. This is not some sort of mistake or overcorrection, it is by explicit overt design.

These cowards will never regain my trust. I won't hire or work with or for googlers or any DEI people ever.
OpenAI has no problem showing accurate pictures. You know it's Google-induced bias, but feign ignorance.

If you ask for a picture of nazi soldiers it shouldn't have 60% Asian people like you say. You know you're wrong but instead of admitting it, you're moving the goalpost to "hands".

This entire thread is you being insincere.
Are there any MoE multimodal approaches?
My bar was at there being absolutely no history of files being sent over. What if they are sending highly classified files / software or private IP over without my knowing?
Please oh please, can someone hack a way to get shell history expansion!? The most objectionable thing about shell history to me is that it's not what I typed!

Mainly a zsh user & I've looked up & down & all around, but I cannot find a way to keep track of what I actually typed, versus what got ran! I really want to better be able to identify patterns, look at what I was typing. Show me !-1$, the last word of the last command!

I need this to learn & improve my expansion capabilities better. I need this to see how my history evolved, to backtrack & see where else any given line was pointing at. Shell history feels devoid of the most important context I craft; I summon birds from hats and my shell history just says: there was a bird here. Hiss boo.
Why would you expect anything you didn't specify in the output of the first prompt? If there are friends, lunch, and a park: it did what you asked.

Piling a bunch of neurotic expectations about it being a Benneton ad on top of that is absurd. When you can trivially add as much content to the description as you want, and get what you ask for, it does not matter what the default happens to be.
Google could fix it tomorrow if they wanted to, but the fact is they don't because there's no incentive for their business, which is advertising. As Upton Sinclair once put it, "It is difficult to get a man to understand something when his salary depends upon his not understanding it."
It sucks that we can't have smart headlights because "glare" concerns yet the vast majority of SUVs produced in the past 5-6 years have ultra bright LED headlamps that are absolutely blinding even on the low beams. Pick-ups are even worse.

If at least the current regulation was effective, I could understand, but as it is, it's completely inept at keeping headlights under control.
Hmm...

You're right: It's quite possible that the new crop of linear RNNs may not be able to solve the same problems as Transformers.

It could also be that we will have to increase the depth of these linear RNNs (possibly even dynamically) to enable them to perform comparably well on all problems. Right now it's hard to tell for sure. I don't know.

What I do know is that recently proposed linear RNNs are performing comparably to Transformers at similar model sizes, but have not yet been evaluated at state-of-the-art scales.
an interesting project. go contains many source artifacts which make decompilation a bit more straight forward as well. I havent seen anyone really attempt this for go, but would be notable research
> can you explain what type of headaches your would expect?

identity theft
700M records in 8 days (1024 rps) is to mimic a real-world transactional (OLTP) workload. It doesn't define limits on what throughput can be achieved.
The "algebraic" qualifier should have tipped you off.
It's called a recall, it happens all the time. Ask elon, lol.
Maybe you're lucky or buying the right SD cards?

I've always used noatime for filesystem, journald set to ram logging, etc. Usually everything seems fine until a reboot triggers a fsck. Most were ext 3/4 filesystems.
I mostly really like atuin, but it has been causing some random other breakage in my shell that has me on the verge of replacing it with something simpler. A quick search comes up with https://github.com/atuinsh/atuin/issues/1696 , which indicates I'm not alone.
I just released the first Hacker News client for Apple Vision Pro
Productivity Tools Are Taxed
I read this as “keep your stuff current or pay a tax on not patching.”
Also off topic, but your comment "It's like giving a tank to a soccer mom and telling her to have fun in traffic" reminds me of the 1995 San Diego Tank Rampage where a guy stole a tank from a Nat'l Guard base and took it on the freeway.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q6UBW0wrB18

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1995_San_Diego_tank_rampage
Yes, absolutely. Thank you for clarifying what I was saying. Regardless of where you are coming from, it's likely to be the places where there unstated assumptions / cultural-norms that differ from your own where you will experience the biggest "lift" when encountering a new technology. The more a culture aligns with a "lowest common denominator," the more it will be readily understood, and the less it does, the more it will act as an exclusivity gate.

Either could be desirable or undesirable depending on your goals. It's good to be aware of the dynamics so that you can make an informed choice about how to present your code.
> That seems like the first scenario I described. If MS was investing in OpenAI contingent on their using MS’s cloud, then yeah it seems obviously anticompetitive, right?

My understanding is that this is precisely how it was structured, that most of the investment was effectively in MS Cloud credits. If that is inaccurate then I'm not as strong on the anticompetitive behavior being an issue.
This is great! btw what do you mean by "Launch a directory as a lead magnet"?
Since people don't seem to like that response no matter who says it these days... I guess all I can say is "that doesn't give them the right".
That’s only 8 calls with a full context window per second. If that costs so much it makes Google do a double take, then maybe these AI things are just too expensive.

If it costs $1 per call, then over a year the entire perfect moderation of Youtube would cost roughly $250M. That seems sort of reasonable?

But probably pointless for most videos that are never watched by anyone other than the uploader, so maybe you just do this thing before anyone else watches the video and cut your costs by 50+%
Ask HN: Google Analytics sucks What do you use?
Google Analytics has many flaws:
- Not being able to identify what a specific user is doing and what journey they took is one of them.
- The very confusing UI/UX is the other.
- Lack of trust in attribution (due to lack of transparency on how the attribution happened).

My question is: is anyone else facing these issues with GA? What do you use to get a better picture of your product's usage?
> My understanding is that Signal (the app) is private, not anonymous, centralized, and closed.

You are right about that.
There used to be an open source build called LibreSignal

Moxie Marlinspike made clear [1]: You may inspect the code. You are even allowed to compile it. You are not allowed to connect your self compiled client to our message servers. We are not interested in a federated protocol. Make sure your fork creates its own bubble that does not overlap with Open Wisper Systems. Stop using the name Signal.

[1] https://github.com/LibreSignal/LibreSignal/issues/37#issueco...
Why is that? I was intrigued by combination of words and found out it had nothing to do with what I thought.
This has more to do with the fact that copilot by nature is additive and not editing your code. There was a recent report about how code quality is dropping in codebases because of the repetitive code being introduced by copilot.

The next evolution as you are saying would be to detect if its a repetitive code and modularise it or refactor it.
Don't put words in my mouth. I wrote what I meant, not what you want to project onto it.
If you can't afford to pay a sufficient number of people to moderate a group, you need to reduce the size of the group or increase the number of moderators.

Your speculation implies no responsibility for taking on more than can be handled responsibly, and externalizes the consequences to society at large.

There are responsible ways to have very clear, bright, easily understood, well communicated rules and sufficient staff to manage a community. I don't know why it's simply accepted that giant social networks get to play these games when it's calculated, cold economics driving the bad decisions.

They make enough money to afford responsible moderation. They just don't have to spend that money, and they beg off responsibility for user misbehavior and automated abuses, wring their hands, and claim "we do the best we can!"

If they honestly can't use their billions of adtech revenue to responsibly moderate communities, then maybe they shouldn't exist.

Maybe we need to legislate something to the effect of "get as big as you want, as long as you can do it responsibly, and here are the guidelines for responsible community management..."

Absent such legislation, there's no possible change until AI is able to reasonably do the moderation work of a human. Which may be sooner than any efforts at legislation, at this rate.
It has nothing to do with hiring competent engineers. It has to do with Google's business not being incentivized to provide better search. Google's business is advertising, therefore you are the product.
Does storage use scale linearly with the number of connected monitors (assuming each monitor uses the same resolution)?
Lack of standards compliance, bugs, and generally unhelpful compilation error reporting. It was a nightmare for the OOP class, which used more compiler features. Couple that with undergraduate sophomores and juniors trying to do things at the last moment, and you'll have a lot of former CS majors.
I mean people can get through your front door using any number of attacks that either exploit weaknesses in the locking mechanism, or circumvent your locks via a carefully placed brick through a window or something like that. Even if you have alarms and other measures, that doesn't stop someone from doing a quick smash and grab, etc. All of these security flaws doesn't mean that you should leave your door open and unlocked all the time. Imperfect security isn't useless security.

And the purpose of things like bad-word filters is to make a best effort at blocking stuff which violates the platform TOC and makes plausible deniability much less likely when someone is deliberately circumventing the filters. The existence of false positives and false negatives is considered acceptable in an imperfect world. The filters themselves also only block the action to change a username or whatever and don't punish the user or deny use of the platform entirely (they're much less punitive than the AI abuse algorithms that auto-ban people off of Google/GitHub/etc).
"Most" countries? Can you provide some examples?
I like to think of it like mad cow: that’s what you get when you feed animals to animals. Same with AI.
I'm asking the OP to prove, or rather, even begin to attempt to argue, and I quote, "opportunity is everywhere," which is only part one of their baseless claims! That's why I asked them to support their argument with evidence. The article provides some evidence that opportunity is not everywhere.

This place is a moral sewer.
As I see it, rating systems like the MPAA for cinema and the ESRB for games work quite well. They have clear criteria on what would lead to which rating, and creators can reasonably easily self-censor, if for example they want to release a movie as PG-13.
Zeiss and ASML currently have no competitors in the EUV lithography space as everyone else dropped out. (There was a big switch from lenses to mirrors)

I won't rule out a direct competitor, but they have a substantial moat.

They face some pressure from indirect competition like Canon Nanoimprint though.
It may be something as stupid as a wiring harness layout optimization. You can put the headlights controller at the headlights and only run a single set of CAN bus wires (which are probably in that area anyways), haven't played with CAN I assume they are fairly few and fairly thing gauge, through the firewall of the car.
Our Feature Flag values are being retrieved correctly, as far as we can tell, but we're getting 504 Gateway Time-outs from https://app.launchdarkly.com
This is interesting, I wasn't aware. Thank you! What I was (maybe snarkily) trying to evoke was e.g. how the way Hans Bethe spoke about Richard Feynman contrasts with how Freeman Dyson speaks about Stephen Wolfram, or Cosma Shalizi's review of A New Kind of Science. It's obviously not universally true that everyone accepts or understands a scientist's work in their time, but it's not often that a scientific "genius" is widely regarded as a crackpot among their scientific contemporaries. Extraordinary claims, etc etc.
From personal experience, once engineers go the MBA route they tend to lose their technical edge and get sucked into the vortex of the MBA universe. It's like some strange indoctrination process.
A'tuin the world turtle, from disc world:

https://discworld.fandom.com/wiki/Great_A%27Tuin
LaunchDarkly incident: client-side and server-side SDKs experiencing errors
"Often impossible"? Not my experience at all. Maybe it would be more problematic with prepaid SIMs, but why would a monthly billed account get deactivated?

You lose your SIM? You go to a branch, verify your identity, and get a fresh new SIM for your line. There's no more straightforward and surefire way to recover any other type of account as of today.
>So glad we're on the same page

We're really not. I'm saying you've incorrectly defined the English language. By that definition, no piece of text is English.
Projektfu's interpretation is what I had in mind, actually. Some airlines might prefer to avoid conflict by treating the guy as delicately as possible. I don't know what the thoughts of the Timorese airline are.
Great read! On being visible on social media efforts, how do you measure the ROI of your efforts, like how much time do you spend vs how much revenue does it bring?
They need to take Spirit AeroSystems back in-house again.

Shuffling the deck chairs around in the executive lounge at Boeing isn't going to fundamentally change anything.
This is why I specifically identified that there there are cases where there is no reasonable abstraction. DRY has become so much of a mantra in the industry that it's taken for granted that any repetition must be unnecessary, but there are times where that's just wrong.

The first example I gave is parsers—even after you've factored out as many helper functions as you can, you'll eventually hit a floor where you have to use those helper functions and piece the results together. That floor is necessarily repetitive—you end up with a bunch of 5 to 10 line functions calling the abstractions and feeding the results together.

Unit tests is another example: I find that when people get too DRY in unit tests it just ends up obfuscating what the test is testing and makes changing the program later harder. Same as with parsing, there is a floor for how much abstraction is reasonable and once you have hit that floor you still have to go through the rote repetition of stringing functions together and asserting things about the results.

With a parser you actually have to do this, but with unit tests people will as often as not give up on the tedium and just not cover all the edge cases. Copilot enables developers to stop writing the repetitive code and spend their unit testing time thinking of edge cases.
Same here. On mobile. No comprendo what this all does, I think it’s still down.
Right now many of the components of your iphone are paired to the phone through signing. It's a huge fucking pain in the ass, and it makes the whole 'right to repair' a huge can of worms.
I can't say offhand, since I don't have much experience with storage.

I'd expect that most of the work from a SSD read is offloaded to the disk controller, which presumably uses DMA, and you don't have nearly as many round trips (a sequential read can be done with a single SCSI command).

I'm inclined to agree with the explanation given by other commenters that the limiting factor for SSD r/w speeds in the cloud is due to throttling in the hypervisor to provide users with predictable performance as well as isolation in a multitenant environment.
Does that mean this is a Google spinoff...?
I assume the end to this story is: they were proven correct when she found her card?