skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That's what happens. Almost all transactions are Straight Through Processed. It's only when things go wrong (or very exceptional cases) that a human gets involved.

The banks can't afford for humans to be involved in too many transactions.
yup, my diesel golf could do all of the above on a single tank

and faster than anything else on the road too ;)
According to the government, Mar 1. Anything that is based on your birthday (driver's license, drinking, signing contracts, etc) all happen on March 1 if there is no Feb 29 that year.

Which makes sense since then it is "after" your birthday.
At least in North America we get every observed holiday on every year. There are places (hi France) where if it falls on Sat/Sun and if you're a M-F employee, you just don't get that holiday that year. Of course you have a pile of vacation time to use if you want.
Re-read everything you just said.
This is why I spin up a VM whenever I want to look at an image. The risk is too great. Even text files, after all we never know if there's a zero day in the UTF-8 decoder. Better safe than sorry.

Wait a minute I just realized there could be a zero day in the VM hypervisor too. I guess I'll just have to buy a fresh Raspberry Pi for each file I want to open.

/s
Literally decades. I truly miss the HP 4/4Si series.

Sure they were tanks, but you could do most of the service with a Philips screwdriver. The 2 most common failures were the fuser or a DC controller board and both were simple to replace, imo.

The current HP is a ghoulish parody of the HP that was.
> ... But getting to that point needed a serious mandate from the European Union, years of planning, and cooperation by the various governments. The effort was worth it

I'd take my EU strong from an economic point of view and without "yay sunday SEPA transfer" any day over the EU we have today. The EU is a massive failure and it's going to fall into oblivion versus the US and China: especially now that the EU voted to kill its main economy, Germany, by destroying german automakers (with the mandatory shift to EVs).

The EU produces metric shittons of rules and legislation which brings absolutely nothing of value to its citizens.

If anything I don't think the EU is something to strive for: on the contrary, it should serve as an example of what not to do. Even if this means no "yay, instant sunday payments".
At the moment we support JVM based libs automatically, NDK instrumentation requires manual code annotation. But we're going to automate it in one of the future releases
Pretty much all of the self service gas station terminals in New Zealand went down for the 29th
I’m not, but I’d love to see open source components that outperform the alternatives (e.g., ESS).
I joined a car share program, became dependent on it, and then it was abruptly discontinued. Now I own a big car.
Prevent Malicious Traffic with Attack Challenge Mode for the Vercel Firewall
Are Video Generation Models World Simulators?
Hmm that durability means that after some period of time, all your data is gone.

Could be once a year lol
We could make really long cars that lots of people can fit on. Maybe some of those cars could drive on special low-friction roads and be powered by overhead electrical lines.
We're somehow doing worse than an era where smoking was the norm and cola contained cocaine.

Meanwhile there is a maze of contradictory claims about what one should do/avoid.

...hard to know who/what to trust. I'm at the stage where I'm all fk it I'll just yolo this based on intuition even though I have no credible nutritional knowledge. Said intuition currently says ultra processed foods are the issue. So I cook more stuff from scratch...if I'm wrong it'll be fine
I can't imagine that a local print shop wouldn't do that for you. My FIL recently asked about getting a color laser printer to print off some catalogs for his customers. I asked what he was paying a print shop, and while I don't remember the number, it was very reasonable, especially as it included paper and stapling. I just said, if you want to do your own, especially in volume, it's going to take you forever to print off the usual volume, and it won't save much money even if you value your own time at nothing.

Email them a PDF, they'll print whatever you need. It's probably worth it to keep a basic laser printer at the house (my ancient Brother doesn't even have networking or duplex printing - but it's USB-connected to my iMac, which allows AirPrint with Printopia, which is well worth the $20) for things you need a copy of right now, but for a hundred copies of a 20-page handout, a print shop is almost certainly a better choice.
Remember, always use a library for cryptography, payments, and date calculations.
For prompt injection attacks which are context-sensitive, we have developed a DSL (SPML) for capturing the context and then we use the same to detect conflict with the originally defined system bot / chat bot specification. Having restricted the domain of attacks helps in finer grain control and better efficiency in detecting prompt injections. We also hypothesize that since our approach works only by looking for conflicts in the attempted overrides, it is resilient to different attack techniques. It only depends on the intent to attack.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39522245
We are talking here about the US federal system, which has probation as a sentencing option, and I believe judges already have pretty wide latitude to set custom probation conditions.

I suppose the problem is the sentencing guidelines and societal expectations are for custodial sentences. But I think many people who oppose lengthy prison terms for nonviolent offenders when the offender is the neighbourhood drug dealer or some petty thief are suddenly no longer opposed when it is a (formerly wealthy) white collar criminal
Same. Never once have I selected the “Check my balance” tele-option, though I’ve had to listen to it innumerable times.
If specialization were always better then we’d hire a different specialist to press each key on the keyboard. Specialization is only efficient when the specialist can do a better job, and by enough to outweigh overhead. Rough sorting is extremely basic and requires no “training”, so specialization is less efficient, and serves only to shift work to people whose time is valued less.
This era of computing fascinates me. I've been enjoying Usagi Electic's series (on youtube) about the Bendix, which is about the same vintage.
OpenAI has done this forever, and ever, and ever.[^1]

There is some factor we're not accounting for that explains why all of a sudden it was an end-of-the-world problem.

What do you think it is?

I do think it was politics / culture war, at least, I permitted myself to think that after I got social permission from right wing AI people who were similarly disgusted by the conversation[^2] and shocked at how puerile and detached from reality it was, compared to what is actually going on, known as early as GPT-2. [^3]

[^1] Prompt: a group of people during the revolutionary war

Revised: A dynamic scene depicting the revolutionary war. There's a group of people drawn from various descents and walks of life including Hispanic, Black, Middle-Eastern, and South Asian men and women.

Screenshot: https://x.com/jpohhhh/status/1761204084311220436?s=20

[^2] ~4 people who have been long-term in the AI community, long before ChatGPT, and self-described right wing. Unsolicted, merely observed, quotes include: "midwit conversation", "unforgivable" "dragged AI into their Woke Right bullshit".

[^3] prompt-rewriting ala Dall-E as shown in [^1]. I confirmed it with someone on Gemini, as well as the much more interesting equivocation issue with larger models https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/t9svvNPNmFf5Qa3TA/mysteries-...
Unless you're in your 70's, YouTube doesn't allow you to buy premium if you were born on a leap year, because their age calculation is broken, and it thinks you're under 18. Google One works fine. Support will suggest that you change the birthday on your Google account, which breaks account recovery processes that depend on you furnishing matching identity documentation. Mind-boggling.

Because nobody at YouTube has apparently ever encountered this problem, I ended up having my partner buy a family plan. As much as I hate paying so much a month for YouTube of all things, screen-off background play is a paid feature on iPhone, having one of the two accounts on your TV showing ads is absolutely infuriating and I'm not sure I fancy risking an account ban for anything they can associate with someone costing them ad revenue.
Thank you ^_~
More like "never own an HP printer again". Brother is the only brand of printer I've bought in the last 15 years, for either home or office use.
I don't see them doing 3 generations of 24gb.

...we'll see I guess
That's all it covers, for now. Canadians have been waiting 60 years for public prescription coverage so this is bigger than it seems, assuming it lasts and gets expanded before the next 60 years. It's definitely a move in the right direction as handling prescriptions nationally will give Canada more leverage with drug companies and save a lot of money.
No idea, but this makes me less likely to go for HP metal next time I buy servers.

Who knows if the brilliant business minds currently in charge of the printer division will bring this magic to servers. I for one have no interest in finding out.
I agree that those topics are worthy of consideration, but it seems like they were outside the scope of the report.

>"The review considered five themes

What initiatives can help to raise awareness, reduce stigma and capitalise on the productivity of autistic employees
What more could be done to prepare autistic people effectively for beginning or returning to a career
How employers can adjust recruitment practices to meet the needs of autistic applicants
How employers can support autistic people already in their workforce
How employers can encourage and support autistic staff to develop and progress their career."*
> Do they accelerate renewals in short months,

Yes. They bill on the last day of the month if your anchor date is past that. In fact most billing systems do, which is why Feb 28th is the best day to load test billing systems. Because you'll get four days worth of renewals on one day.

Interesting that you don't have renewals today, I wonder if they did them yesterday and have a bug?
Well then I guess they'll have to go to the office while they look for a new employer, the horror.

But yeah I suppose some could group together to force the policy decisions of where everyone works...

Those damn employers supporting people's families.
Fra Mauro's 1450 World Map
This website provides many ways to explore and interact with this map. Use the left hand navigation to focus on different topics. At the top are links to introductions and other chapters. I merely linked to a section that has most of the text on the map translated which is neat.
I'm sure this is in response to the recent Netlify situation
Wired: LLM are practically AGI

Tired: ChatGPT thinks February 29th isn't a valid date.
I just replaced my inkjet printer because the cost of replacing the ink cartridges was too much to bear.

My new printer is intentionally neither HP nor inkjet. HP can get stuffed.
I think this is a critical aspect: the current statistics on who takes which mode of transportation are hopelessly distorted. The current system is broken every which way. For the San Francisco Bay Area you don't take one or the other because you like it. You take one because the other is even more messed up. You can't even "like" one if it's right under your door. Parking is (deliberately) terrible. Car windows broken entirely expected to happen sooner or later (pretty deliberately also really). Transit shows up or not. And is slow. And might break down right under you. And is a war zone. The potholes are massive enough they affect the busses just fine, etc, etc. Back to the point at hand: looking at how many trips are taken in one or the other tells you nothing about people's preferences. The preference would be NEITHER.
Or Snohomish. Or Sequim. Or Cle Elum.
Different metrics Daily vs Monthly Active User. MAU vs DAU
This is extremely specifically is about detecting that Bash is pulling on the stream, by using it's line by line interpretation to do a timing attack. It's not clear there's a timing difference between pushing the stream to disk versus pushing the stream to man, since it seems fairly likely that man would read the entire file into memory before operating on it (at least modern man)
the Rust compiler is able to infer that allowing two mutable borrows
is safe as long as one of them is never used

This (i.e. proving a variable is never used) is impossible in general
since it is equivalent to the halting problem.
There are many cases where it can be solved, so the compiler lets the programmer
get away with this in the cases where one of the mutable borrows is provably not used. Now imagine re-factoring the code so that the compiler could no longer produce the proof. Now an error is generated and the programmer is left scratching their head
wondering where this new error came from.
It is ambiguous, but one part that's pretty unambiguous is that the result should be a date, not a crash.
That's a monthly active user. A daily active user would be someone who logged into an account in the last day. Generally monthly active user count will be higher than daily active users, but for something like Facebook the difference is about 50% (which is what the second article linked is explaining, if you read more than just cherry-picking a line that matches your preconceptions)

And yes, that's a claim that if each user is a separate person, >20% of the world's population interacts with Facebook at least minimally each day. You can add your own interpretation about how many of the accounts are bots or otherwise duplicates, but it's a staggering amount either way.
But we should keep producing more year on year until it's studied properly?

Studied by whom? Petrochemical companies have studies on their stuff back for decades. They'd never endanger the public to improve their bottom line. Plastics are fine, dontchaknow?
C++ is a bug that can’t be fixed
Imagine having to buy up magic bits to try to save the planet from corporate paperclip maximizers. What a timeline.
This has been a factor in contract law for longer than computers have existed. "Subtract a year" or "Add a year" aren't really imprecise, it's just that there are two ways you can interpret it: 365 days, or 12 months. When adding, you get the same result: end of February, the 28th. Subtracting, you get one of March 1st for 365 days and February 28th for 12 months.

Most jurisdictions use the 12 month standard, fwiw. I believe that's the ISO ruling as well, but I wasn't able to confirm that.
I'm on Safari on MacOS with AdGuard and StopTheMadness. Nothing seems to have autoplayed.
Your brother's executor has a contact person at the probate court, who can obtain a probate judge's order or declaration authorizing you [or the executor] to do whatever Google says you need authorization for. Do that. The people at the probate court are the ones who know what to do in a case like this.
Shouldn't that just be a unix timestamp or something? You'd think resolving that to a date time could be done in the UI instead of in the business logic
Crikey - more helpful to me is the page linked from there - https://learn.microsoft.com/sl-SI/office/troubleshoot/excel/...

> However, there is still a small error that must be accounted for. To eliminate this error, the Gregorian calendar stipulates that a year that is evenly divisible by 100 (for example, 1900) is a leap year only if it is also evenly divisible by 400.

> For this reason, the following years are not leap years:

> 1700, 1800, 1900, 2100, 2200, 2300, 2500, 2600

I had no idea!
"You'd best start believing in right-wing conspiracy theories. You're living in one."
IME, c++ was easier to ramp up on than typescript. C++ still a lingua franca in many domains, e.g., robotics, games, finance.
Maybe last time, the company had someone on staff who knew the appropriate workaround.
A unit test shouldn’t even be depending on the current date in the first place
They probably meant succession, which in the context of a forest means like the regrowth/repopulation, which can take hundreds of years.
I guess what I mean is why do other websites have scheduled downtime when AWS shows its not necessary?

Is it just less work to take it offline?
Yes, an amusing one: the Android app for the Berlin public transport, on the 29th, listed the results with the date of the previous day (28th).

The funny thing is that the list is prefaced by a banner saying that this is a known bug, and the results actually refer to the 29th.

Interesting way to workaround a bug :)
It doesn't apply to this particular model, but many of the custom mechanical keyboards are built by hand (sometimes from kits), so it's less work to make a pared down version.
It is hard to transport 3-4 people with microlino.

Btw in Italy I've seen many Microcars which are technically 4-wheeled scooters and thus could be driven by 14 years old kids.
Because more people are interested in a modded 7th gen ipod classic[0][1]. Give me the wheel any day.

[0]: https://www.wired.com/story/ipod-modders/

[1]: https://player-mods.com/products/bluetooth-modded-ipod-class...
If the blog author is lurking on here, I tried to bookmark the article since it's very relevant to my current situation, but it didn't have a title set for the page. NBD to copy/paste one in, but it took me by surprise.
Theory: people don't have as many/as close of friends as they used to.

When I need a truck, I have a friend I can borrow it from. When I need a van, I have a friend I can borrow it from. Otherwise my Honda Fit does everything I need it to. Growing up my family borrowed cars all of the time.

But outside of my circle of friends, I've noticed most people these days don't have friends/family they feel comfortable asking favors from. Everyone wants to be self-reliant, so everyone wants a car that can do everything for them. Ironically even for hauling friends around in.

For me, it's another extension of the larger "bowling alone" trend.
Could someone tell me what these hundreds of requests could do?
Also, from a much more pragmatic perspective, it just sounds cool. I don’t think we should be reluctant about using any given language just because we are currently having some issues with people also using it.

It’s not as if I enjoy my games with Russian in any less.
Can you please define a) what you mean by “woke”, and b) exactly how Bloomberg (a financial publication aimed at the ownership class) qualifies?

Last time I checked with my sources at Antifa headquarters, they weren’t getting the latest treatises on Marxist thought from Bloomberg
Run to the Gate to Catch an Earlier Flight? American Will Now Turn You Away
Reddit literally licenses its data to AI training [1]. If doing so kills its own product that would be hilarious.

[1]: https://arstechnica.com/ai/2024/02/reddit-has-already-booked...
https://www.macrotrends.net/2593/nikkei-225-index-historical...

I did not - adding an optimistic 2% dividend didn't change much for the S&P, but slightly reduced the underwater counts for the Nikkei (max 23, average ~7.5)
Bigcode/starcoder2-15B · Hugging Face
I agree that it's a risk to pipe to sh but that's not what we're doing here, and I'd hope that most of the people aren't saying there's no difference between piping to man and piping to sh.
I'd put that under 2.5 or 3.5, if not later. You only really need to do it before you start modifying code, and it's a massive effort to understand a new codebase. Better pick the lower-hanging fruit (like corruption bugs) so you can at least stay sane when you run the tests and try to understand them.
I still have an HP4050DTN and an HP5000DTN. Both of them pre-date this century, and will likely work just fine into the next, providing I can still find cartridges for them and Ethernet still exists.

I doubt I will ever buy a modern HP product, seeing as they are so stridently enshittifying their printers.
You are arguing valid points with some inherent assumptions that are not guaranteed to be met by everyone.

'Discrimination' is not "bad" per se. It is merely a social contract to prohibit it to some protected classes. Discrimination literally just means to differentiate, the negative connotations are social and cultural bias, and thus are socially constructed. Society does that because we've found that to lead better outcomes. There's no inherent naturalistic justification to these protections, besides weird Locke-ian attempts to justify "human rights" based on a higher entity (gods). Legislation is drawn as an attempt to resolute differing, conflicting ideas. It is not innate, it is not given by god(s).

Knowing this, then the equivocation of "Irish, Muslisms, old people, women, men, gay people" to "people like to have areas without kids" is ridiculous. The class of a parent and their offspring is not the same as the class of a religion or a sexuality (something that you can't even choose -- whereas you can choose to be a parent (discounting rape, because that is an extraordinary circumstance)).
Apologies, I'm not tracking your argument. The first part of your posts seems to suggest that focusing on early adopters will lead to mass adoption. But I'm not following the last part where you indicate you've dumped popular services/software in exchange for relatively niche solutions
trigger warning next time!
This is a review that is critical of the book, but it seems like it's trying to be fair about the criticism:
https://slate.com/human-interest/2024/02/abigail-shrier-bad-...

I found this part of the review pretty funny:

"Shrier reserves her most scalding contempt, however, for so-called gentle parenting and its acolytes, the well-meaning moms and dads who have been snookered into surrendering their authority, never telling their children no. Instead of the crisp directness of “knock it off,” Shrier explains, gentle parenting promotes a feelings-centered approach, replacing punishment with “Why don’t we try taking a few breaths together now, Harper?”

The use of “Harper” is code here, of course, meant to invoke the type of namby-pamby elitist parent living in a coastal city who would name their kid that. Just in case we weren’t sure whom Shrier is referring to, she specifies: “If someone wanted to kill all human desire to reproduce—to achieve, at last, this thing environmentalists call “population control”—steering readers to the Slate Parenting Facebook group might be a promising way to start,” she writes. (I’ll admit that—reading this book with a review for Slate in mind—I did not see that one coming!)"
In your day people weren't doing everything with string ops in JavaScript.
Virtual-Assistant.ai/
The Hyperstition of Collective Intelligence

virtual-assistant.ai/
$ kubectl get deployments.apps | wc -l
25

Minus the header, looks like ~24. I use a single-node Kubernetes cluster running Talos [1]. Running a single-node cluster is kinda dumb architecturally, but adding a new service takes <10 minutes most of the time, which is nice. I've standardized on Cuelang [2] for my configs, so adding a new service is some DNS/Caddy config fiddling, then:

deployment: <service>: spec: template: spec: {
containers: [{
ports: [...]
command: [...]
volumeMounts: [...]
}]
volumes: [...]
}

And then running:

cue export \
--out yaml \
--expression 'deployment.<service>' \
--expression 'service.<service>' \
kube.cue <service>/<service>.cue | kubectl apply -f -

Where `kube.cue` sets reasonable defaults (e.g. image is <local registry>/<service>). The "cluster" runs on a mini PC in my basement, and I have a small Digital Ocean VM with a static IP acting as an ingress (networking via Tailscale). Backups to cloud storage with restic, alerting/monitoring with Prometheus/Grafana, Caddy/Tailscale for local ingress.

[1] https://www.talos.dev/

[2] https://cuelang.org/
No, this could be done in Europe which is hostile to cars, not in the US.