skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I guess this is what it feels like to see the country and institutions you love decay in real time and go to the dogs. The number of HN comments here supporting the government and arguing against Apple boggle my mind, yet I can’t help but notice that I’ve seen this trendline for a while and should honestly be expecting it until something drastic happens.

For those with a more open mind, look at the wasteland of America and try to find the few institutions that houses the most productive, smart and creative people of the world and actively develops and nurtures them. You will find that one of those institutions is Apple, probably the biggest and arguably among the best in the computer industry. Any sane government would decide its first priority is to protect and nurture these institutions as they represent the cream of the crop of institutions in the country. If Apple started in China, you bet the Chinese government would pull all stops to try and subsidize Apple if its business starts to die, that will also kill Apple albeit in a different way. Yet in our government we have decided it’s time to ruin this institution. Quick, what’s the easiest way to take your most productive and motivated employees and make them quit in frustration. Easy, you keep chipping away at their autonomy, narrowing it in scope and replacing all the tasks where they used to think decide with a long complex labyrinthe of rules and processes. Any time they take initiative, make them go through a long and arduous approval by committee and anytime they make an infraction micromanage them in that area for an excessive amount of time. You will find that they will quit in due time.The government seems determined on putting Apple on that diet. In its ideal world, Apple should be another Boeing, a company that exists to embody its regulation. Alas we are fortunately a bit far away from that, Apple I reckon has a few good years of its life left, but I won’t be surprised if we see this happen to the tech industry in 20 years.
Ha, ha, this is the perfect loophole. My not-AI music system will imitate your voice by sampling instruments in just the right order and with the right timing. It's only sampling instruments!
Agreed with your sentiments! To answer your question: you are correct we currently do not support this. The next version of our product will be focused on stems, much closer to what you are asking for.
Your software sounds amazing and will probably make you a fortune. I wanted to check my understanding of how Antithesis fuzzes software. The way I understand it from reading the documentation is that you create a "workload" which is sort analogous to a fuzzing harness that will typically make random API calls, and Antithesis will pursue sequences of events that are more interesting as defined by coverage and also inject faults. So something like this could probably be pretty easily be adapted to a workload: https://github.com/grpc/grpc/blob/86953f66948aaf49ecda56a0b9.... Do you use any interesting coverage metrics or just basic blocks?
Why the Apple Antitrust Suit Matters
I had to laugh out. The Japanese do not like the American tourists?
I believe in God for a number of reasons.

Firstly, it just seems much more plausible that someone created the universe. If we walked in to the middle of nowhere and saw a beautiful statue, most of us would say "wow, I wonder who made it?" not "wow, what an incredible coincidence that this thing which has meaning to me just spontaneously formed".

Another main reason is that I _feel_ like there is a God, and generally my feelings tell me things. When I feel hungry, I don't think "ah, but that feeling is only an illusion!" instead I go and eat.

I feel like there is a God, so I go and eat.

p.s. I'm not trying to convince anyone here, just putting my thoughts out there in case they are helpful to anyone else.
Launch HN: DryMerge (YC W24) – Automate Workflows with Plain English
Hi HN! We're Edward and Sam, the founders of DryMerge (https://drymerge.com), a tool to automate workflows with plain English. For example, a user can say "When I get an email from a potential customer, add their details to a google sheet and send me a text", and DryMerge sets that up end-to-end in seconds. Other examples might be “When I finish a Google Meet with a customer, record any issues reported in Linear”, or “Every morning at 9 am, text me a summary of my calendar events for the day”.

Here’s a video walkthrough: https://youtu.be/S4L3B21vXGY.

We initially set out to build a dev tool for API integration, and while building in the integration space, we realized existing workflow automation tools have a few key limitations. They still force users to do a lot of work like: Navigate through a sea of menus; Break down their workflow into discrete steps; Manually configure data transformations.

This led us to explore how we could make workflow automation way simpler by letting users describe what they want in plain English and having AI take care of the automation setup, replacing no-code GUIs or scripts.

Under the hood, DryMerge has two key components:

- A semantic layer that uses LLMs to interpret the user's request and map it to a series of pre-defined triggers and actions (we've built hundreds of these integrations).

- A data plane that orchestrates the actual execution, complete with smart field mapping, conditional logic, and human-in-the-loop checks.

When a user describes a workflow, our semantic layer generates multiple candidate plans, scores them, and selects the best based on prior successful/failed workflows. It extracts key entities and fields needed, and auto-generates a simple form for the user to fill in any missing details. Users can then iteratively describe, tweak, and test their workflow in the same chat.

The data plane then subscribes to the relevant event streams, executes the workflow steps, and handles gnarly aspects like pagination, retries, and rollbacks invisibly. We allow the semantic layer to delegate some values for runtime dependency injection from the data plane, to handle open-ended logic like classifying an email as urgent or summarizing a Google Meet transcript.

We integrate with 14 common services — we’d love for you to try it out and share what you think. Check it out at https://drymerge.com/app.
A Fire Upon the Deep is one of the all-time great science fiction novels.
I see. And this led me to a question: what can make a language expressed in S-expressions not a lisp?
Show HN: A list of the card games/puzzles I made to teach kids programming
In the process of teaching my kid I made some card games, which I think are useful tools for other parents/teachers.

If you have ideas about new games, or teaching tools, please contact me, I think the space of non condescending tools for teaching kids is very unexplored.

e.g. now I am working on a car/cdr card game, and an ARP who-has/is-at board game
> suburbs of Seattle like Bellevue and Richmond

Redmond?
Malware analysis of an open-source project
A short story about how I found malware in an open-source project.
I think that chain-of-thought for LLMs is just helping them enhance their "memory", as it puts their reasoning into the context and helps them refer to it more readily. That's just a guess, though.
It says (youtube.com) at the end of the title.
I rarely upvote. For no reason in particular, I just forget to.
very few companies sign an agreement with "Apple". You sell a good or service to a single person, small group or maybe a department. There are countless customers this size, the difference is do they treat you like they are the embodiment of "Apple"? We have lots of big, well-known clients and for the most part they do not.
$10/month or $100/year for unlimited downloads

We are putting pricing up soon
> laughs in regulatory capture

Well, if the guy was murdered, and if the murder was related to the case it doesn't sound like they were merely laughing.
Nah dude. That’s exactly what I am saying. Your “faith” in science is not misplaced, and it is not absent evidence of working. If science didn’t work, you couldn’t have written that comment. You also have evidence that a small minority of people exploit that trust for personal gain, but this is a fixable thing.

This is an entirely different definition of faith.
Sadly, that sort of entitled idiocy (move next to an existing, then complain) is definitely not limited to airports. It doesn't matter if it's other nearby infrastructure (major roads, railroads, power lines, whatever), or lack of infrastructure (water, sewer, flood control, etc.), or the nicely-maintained vacant lot next door, or what.
> Models can't think. It uses the input context to predict an output.

The first claim doesn't follow from the second. What is it about using the input to predict an output that makes you believe they can't think? What if that's all thinking is? We don't know.
State Farm discontinuing 72,000 home policies in California
https://directfile.irs.gov/
Libertarians care a lot about property rights. I can understand how a Libertarian wouldn’t take issue with a law to protect the right to one’s own likeness.

It could be argued that using AI to duplicate someone’s voice is a form of theft. I can’t think of any Libertarians who think the government shouldn’t have laws around theft.
Here's Hank Williams singing "Straight outta Compton" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vSMaN6zAJYc

Listen while you still can
That is very true but I am still doubtful for the future of this law even in the light of a new coalition, because the support for this law specifically or legalization in general or both in the current one is already weak.
> “faith” in the context of religion means to “believe absent evidence”.

I think that's a bit simplistic.

I was taught (in a Buddhist context) that "faith" should be interpreted as a kind of confidence. To do meditation (beyond something like mindfulness), you need confidence that you aren't going to explode, or harm yourself. It's like that game of deliberately falling backward, with the confidence that your friends will catch you before you hit the ground. So you need confidence in your teacher and in the teaching.

You gain that kind of confidence based on experience; you don't trust your friends (or your teacher) because you're supposed to; you trust them because they have shown themselves reliable in the past. You don't acquire confidence in a flash, as it were on the road to Damascus; it's something that develops.

I don't know whether the Christian notion of faith jibes with this Buddhist interpretation.

/me no longer a Buddhist, nor any kind of thing-ist.
They are trying to expand the Trenton-Mercer Airport. One of the justifications is airport expansion would “increase tourism into the City of Trenton”.

Anyone who has been to Trenton, NJ will understand what is wrong with that idea.
The US is also much, much bigger. Germany is about the size of Nevada. France is about the size of the entire Eastern seaboard.

The US would definitely be better served with better rail infrastructure, but there's no getting around the fact that Seattle to Boston is 200 miles longer than Lisbon to Moscow, and slightly longer than Edinburgh to Aleppo.
Reward them with our patronage? Do you know what the Streisand Effect is?
Looks like they ninja edited the header picture. While the controls themselves were properly formatted, the Japanese text used normal horizontal left-to-right glyphs. Now four hours later they seem to be vertical as they should.
About half of Americans pay no effective tax anyway, why not set a threshold say 100k a year and if you are under it you owe no federal taxes and don't have to file anything. Can make up the difference by taxing capital gains at the same rate as W2 income.
> By the end of the 80s, there were really only four major computer lines in the US. You had PCs (and their clones, of which there were many), Apple Macintosh, Commodore Amiga and Atari ST. For a short while there was also NeXT, but even with its big promises, great innovations and charismatic leader it didn’t survive as a hardware platform.

I rather see NeXT as a competitor in the market for Unix Workstations (Sun, HP, SGI, ...) and not as a competitor to the four mentioned (consumer) lines.
> "After this story published, Apple told [Kim Zetter] they just posted the instruction about the DIT to their web site yesterday [MAR 21], timed to the public release of the researchers' findings, which means that developers were not told to do this fix prior to yesterday's release" [1]

The mitigation for the issue was posted in coordination with the publishing of the vulnerability. Given that the mitigation only applies to the M3 processor, it's reasonable to assume that there is no currently known mitigation for the M1 and M2 processors.

[1] https://www.zetter-zeroday.com/apple-chips/
No! I only tried PCA, but I still have the embeddings.

I'll try later and post results.
the chat bubble color misses the point. it's more the loss of features. because as soon as you add a single android user the experience degrades. reacting becomes clunkier and imessage exclusive features wont work. so it's better to manage two chats
Great, but this should be super clear in the readme. Even better is to include some example usage.
This just out today: State Farm moved out of CA and discontinued 720000 home policies.

Things are about to get(even more) interesting in CA.
flag

reason: advert to redact.dev and their subscription crap.
I'd say cheese is always a sensible battle tactic.
Thank you for explaining point 1. My brief googling of the issue led me to find mostly loud, angry voices, none of which mentioned these facts. This completely changes my evaluation.

Regarding point 3, I agree that the software would be in a higher quality state even if the testing framework disappears. However, fully adopting this framework likely means integrating and explaining it in our processes and compliance documentation (my company provides services to financial institutions).

I appreciate your directness. Thanks.
Can you give examples of how its libertarian? Seems to me its no different than any other state in regards to taxes or requirements. For example zoning is still highly restrictive in terms of what you are allowed to build on your land.
Any language can be expressed in S-expressions. A translation of the syntax tree to sexprs is often used in parser debugging. And Lisp doesn’t have to be expressed in S-expressions (see Dylan, or M-expressions, a syntax for Lisp that predates S-expressions).

Lisp traditionally has these features, but they’re separate features:

* There is a rich syntax for literal data structures

* Code is directly exposed as data structures so it can be manipulated with code (macros)

* Code is written as literal data structures so it has no separate syntax
StairSteady
How Large Are Gender Differences in Toy Preferences? A Systematic Review (2020)
Italian telecoms regulator Admits Cloudflare was wrongfully blocked. No apology
This is exactly right. You either end up with something very low-level (on the level of LLVM IR, for instance)—which means you aren't constructing and analyzing high-level language constructs anymore—or with something high-level but with many language-specific special cases grafted on.

Where we've found success is in stepping back and creating formalisms that are language-agnostic to begin with, and then using tree-sitter to manage the language-specific translations into that formalism. A good example is how we use stack graphs for precise code navigation [1], which uses a graph structure to encode a language's name binding semantics, and which we build up for several languages from tree-sitter parse trees [2].

[1] https://dcreager.net/talks/stack-graphs/

[2] https://github.com/github/stack-graphs/tree/main/languages
To be clear, telling AI companies to fuck off is way cooler than the anti-climate accelerationism.
I reverse-engineered the HN ranking algorithm a few years ago [1]. To answer your question, posts have a sudden drop due to several types of penalties. Many posts are penalized from the start due to their title or domain. A "controversy" penalty kicks in if an article has more comments than upvotes and at least 40 comments; this penalty is usually the reason why an article catastrophically drops. Other penalties are applied by the moderators. If the voting looks suspicious, a "voting ring" penalty is applied. I found that penalties were very common: 20% of front page articles were penalized and 38% of second page articles. There have been changes to the ranking algorithm since I looked at it, but it is generally the same.

[1] https://www.righto.com/2013/11/how-hacker-news-ranking-reall...
Out of curiosity, is your livelihood not at least indirectly reliant on intellectual property?
That is not true, support in the current coalition is already weak. There is a reason why this law took almost until the end of the election period to come to pass.

Especially our current health minister, who is responsible for the law, is well know for being against legalization. He only bowed to the pressure of the coalition.
Polyend Tracker: The first hardware tracker in the music world (2020)
Stratasys FDM in the Bambu Age
A 3D-printing shop ran an experiment comparing parts from a Bambu machine with parts from a Stratasys FDM machine.
Someone taking on Zapier.
Great!!!
I mean OKTA was breached, Mandiant was breached it doesn't get more protected than those.
It is not. I would welcome you to watch actual debates. This definition of faith is what happens when arguments are defeated. The response will always be

“Well that’s where you have to have faith”
Amazing what the frontiers science and medicine are doing...
this is a very weird claim.

most Linux distributions take free software/open source pretty seriously, and will not ship random proprietary things (at least) as part of the main distribution.

the new redis license is clearly not open source/free software, and so new versions won't be in Debian or Fedora etc. since it's a network daemon, no one is going to want to keep an ancient unsupported version and I doubt any distribution packager will want to maintain a fork, and so redis will be removed and at best a maintained fork will replace it.
Japan is well known for violent political clashes.

There is still a very obvious house in the middle of Narita Airport that you can see when flying in or out. There are roads to it underneath the airport.
I love the homepage, simple and clean! Any screenshots of how it looks for logged users?

I noticed it uses MongoDB. That seems like an overkill to me, have you considered SQLite?

if you are open to taking feature requests:

- ability to add random notes

- any submitted link should be captured in archive / wayback machine

- (complicated) search within the submitted links content
Tesla Cybertruck is wireless inductive charging-ready
Are there plans to support the debugging of replays ?. It seems like a really hard problem, I'm assuming that instrumenting could change the outcome of the run.

Is there literature that is a good starting point on determinism/non-determinism in computing ? I'd like to understand the sources of non-determinism better.
Remind me again why "buy any other phone in the world" isn't sufficient for everyone else if this check box is supposed to be sufficient for current iPhone customers? If the only viable smart phone in the world was Apple's, there might be a point to all of this. But the market is almost exactly split right in half and there is nothing at all that you can't do in an Android phone that you would suddenly be able to do if only Apple allowed side loading on the iPhone. So why does Apple and their customer base have to give up things they seemingly want for the minority of people who want to install apks from websites?
Well, if your rant can't be bothered to link to the supposedly offensive legislation, I'm not going to bother with your opinion. But I did find:

"The 2021 Act will abolish the common law of blasphemy"

So I'll assume you support maintaining laws on blasphemy.
Heathrow has had the Heathrow express train for years and years, and now also has the Elizabeth line; both very quick to get into C London.
Good point, I didn't count the letters!
I never understood how people could smoke cigarettes- they just smell awful. Cigars on the other hand, I could get used to that.
I'm pretty sure the commenter is misinformed. The dongle worked with the inline mic on my B&O headphones. But it wasn't worth engaging with that point because I think they're wrong even if the dongle doesn't work perfectly for them.
Such an american title

Like the most interesting thing about these swords is that a guy bought one for millions of $ at an auction. So reductive.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUXe8vqdvx4

:^)
How did you get it to sample those instruments in just the right order and with the right timing?
Nice work! I watched the demo and can see how it will generate fixes for you, which you then copy and paste into the editor. Perhaps you could consider automating this process like Aider[1] does, whereby you force the LLM to generate a git diff for the fix and automatically commit it.

1. https://github.com/paul-gauthier/aider
The DOJ had MS on the ropes in 2000 until Bush fils became president and in the words of one journalist "snatched defeat from the jaws of victory" and walked away from the case.
Maybe that's justified, but it's just as likely that it's not.
truly a bizarre way of doing a dumb thing - they do not own the copyright of all the Redis code, so they cannot "change the license" of the existing code at all.

instead, they need to license their new contributions under the new license, which will effectively make the combined blob of code only available under the new license.

doesn't change what they're doing, but it's just disrespectful, incorrect and a breach of everyone else's copyright to remove the existing license and headers.
> It's really that difficult to say people of color

That's what POC stands for. It includes blacks, hispanics and native Americans - all of those groups were/are impacted by white supremacy.
this whole thread is like nerd sniping me :-D but I felt compelled to draw attention to jq's coalesce operator because I only recently learned about it and searching for the word "coalesce" in the man page is pfffft (it's official name is "Alternative operator", with alternative being "for false and null")

$ echo '[{"a": {"count": null}}]' | jq -c 'sort_by(-(.count//0))'
[{"a":{"count":null}}]
Bulma is an awesome CSS framework! If anyone is interested I worked on a wrapper React component library for Bulma called Tights:

https://github.com/ksylvest/tights
How bad the shortages are would depend on how draconian the controls were relative to the market price. What we can observe today in California is that the price controls are causing a shortage.
Sure, like in the case of Hiroshima Airport (HIJ) and its predecessor (HIW), but even then most people (not necessarily including the politicians) end up longing for the one that was more convenient.
> Toronto became a major Jewish city

I am confused by this part. Can you please explain? On the surface, it doesn't read well. Maybe my English isn't so good.
Utilities must bear all the responsibility for the climate change we are collectively inducing.