skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The issue here is that qingcharles is lying.

He is a creepy pedo who tried to meetup with a 12 year old to have sex and is a registered sex offender.

"Bocock allegedly responded to a Craigslist advertisement posted by a Plainfield resident trying to get money for his car payment. But in exchange for the money, Bocock wanted a girl for sex, officials said.

The Plainfield resident went to the police and an investigator pretending to be the cash-strapped Craigslist poster continued the online conversation with Bocock, officials said. The investigator reportedly offered Bocock his 12-year-old niece for the car payment money, and a rendezvous was set up for Monday afternoon at a Dunkin' Donuts on Route 59.

After Bocock was taken into custody, police searched his North Tripp Avenue home and found "numerous" images of child pornography, Casson said."
Honestly, i don't need to see my aunts and uncles posting pictures of themselves LARP'ing what society considers a happy life.

Not saying that they are not happy, but all the social media stuff feels so staged and unreal.
Data is always crap, but there are error bars. GDP is pretty well accounted for.

There was shadow wealth at every point of the last decade, so it's already factored in, the numbers (and studies) are already taking that into account, ... unless! Unless folks suddenly started to commit more tax fraud. (Which is hard to do if your money comes from capital.)

https://budgetmodel.wharton.upenn.edu/issues/2021/4/30/map-i...
I switched to using Instructor/Marvin which works really nicely with native pydantic models and gets out the way for everything else.
The San-Ti.
Having run/started one of these (technically) in the past, it’s not very hard to maintain a list of major news sources and crawl them every x minutes. Alternatively if you have access to the Twitter firehose, you can pick real time news there, as most URLs get posted the instant it’s published (some by bots, some by publishers themselves)

On a scale of 1 to 10, the difficulty is like a 2 or 3
Creditors tend (in my experience) to be corporations, not individuals. And having seen corporations behave very poorly to many, and given the resources they have to look after their own interests, I don't set out to arrange my finances to their best possible advantage, no.

I should point out that I've had creditors all my life. Landlords, Employees, Banks, Suppliers and so on. I've never stiffed any of them. Perhaps tat's because I remain in control of my own finances, and don't allow them to interfere in the business.

If you feel that protecting your creditors is in your personal interest, then by all means go for it.
Seeking feedback on Wroolo – tool for innovative teams
Hey everyone,

I'm currently in the midst of developing a tool expressly designed for innovative teams, which I've named Wroolo (wroolo.com). The inspiration struck while I was gathering materials for a book on exploratory/discovery type projects.

I'm excited to share that the first piece of Wroolo, essentially the knowledge base enhanced with RAG/LLM architecture, is pretty much ready to go. My aim was to merge the editing concepts found in Notion and Nuclino with an Instagram-like feed, sprinkled with semantic search capabilities provided by RAG.

The second module, which is still in the stabilization and optimization phase, intends to blend the backlog with WBS (Work Breakdown Structure). This means you can embed tasks within a Kanban board at any level you wish, making it a breeze to convert Kanban views into storymaps, tree views, or grids. My goal here was to combine the structured, long-list management, and grouping benefits of WBS with the flexibility and task prioritization features of a backlog.

The third module is a discussion group attached to every project element, be it a task, a piece of knowledge base content, or the project itself.

At this point, I haven't developed a payment module as I'm keen to first understand what users think of Wroolo. My intention is to offer the system for free to individual users, and only charge teams who wish to use it.

I'm inviting anyone interested to give it a test run. Your feedback would be incredibly valuable to me as it will guide the future development of Wroolo. I'm aiming for a personal touch here, with honest, non-marketing style communication.

I'm aware that the layout leaves much to be desired, but I'm gradually working on it. Unfortunately, UI is not my strength.

Marcin
Escaping the Digital Dark Age
At my son's school (Finland) the students are loaned a laptop/chromebook for coursework, communication etc. Particularly since the Covid lockdown.
This is a very interesting perspective that I hadn’t considered, and I think it’s because I’m from a very small Midwest town where homelessness is not an issue.

So when the person I replied to talks about public drinking in parks, in my head I’m picturing the family gatherings my family does each year in the park; and I think about several of my relatives who struggle with alcohol addiction, and my reaction is “well yeah, of course nobody wants to deal with a huge group of drunk people being rowdy in the park.”

What I don’t consider is how those same laws can be used against homeless people to remove them from the same park. In a town of 3000 people, homelessness is not something that really exists here.

Thanks for your comment, it has helped me understand the issue.
I find it funny that if I were to read your comment outside of this website, I could most likely identify it as a HN comment because it mentions barely-used sites popular in HN (such as Bluesky, Signal, Jitsi, IRC, etc), but skips mentioning actually popular ones everywhere else (like Snapchat, Facebook/Messenger, Instagram, TikTok, etc).
> The cop went in believing that a pedophile were almost certainly present (because a child's parents reported them), and so was going to find something no matter what.

The articles I linked above state that it was a sting operation. The perpetrator thought he was paying $500 to the uncle of a 12-year-old girl (who was apparently still slightly too old for his liking) so that he could rape her, but really this was a scenario set up by the police to gather evidence, with the goal of preventing future harm to an actual child.
Hey Jerry.

While ~92% of Pro teams saw a decrease with our pricing changes, I do want to acknowledge that seeing a projected increase is never fun, and I'm happy to personally jump on a call with you if you wanna talk.

That projection is based on your current usage, but you won't be charged for the new metrics for an additional three months. That gives you to ~September to optimize your site. We're confident that everyone with an increase (likely due to Edge Requests or ISR usage) can make some minor tweaks to remain flat or decrease their bill.

For example, so far from the customers I've been working with, some have already optimized their sites by changing some instances of revalidate: 1 to something higher, like 60, which reduces the number of writes you're making with ISR to the cache.

lee at vercel dot com if you want to chat.
IIRC he is much more favorably inclined towards Zig than Rust as far as his personal tastes go.
Denis Villeneuve is doing Dune 3
Elitist.
But that's practically what's being done in supervised learning.

If you would isolate a child in front of a CCTV screen, it also wouldn't magically learn from the images what's our definition of a tree, a bush, a bike, a motorcycle, a car.
Someone would have to take it aside and explain it first.

In AI you just don't take it aside, you build a new child.

Supervised learning is "Hello lil CCTV model. Here's a bucket of some 'world' data, labeled in a way for you to ingest. Here, some images of T-R-E-E-S...".
> "While this might seem significant given that it relates to Apple as one of the last big tech giants to make job cuts, it is not driven by the need for efficiencies," says Mr Pescatore.

> "It feels more like a shift of strategic focus into other new emerging areas like AI," he adds.

Be mindful when taking your next job in the AI goldrush.
It’s not the same. The booking systems you are referring to are based on paying cash and have all of the airlines inventory available.

Delta offers two types of inventory - regular inventory and “award” inventory. Award inventory is only available to alliance partners, is very limited and you can only pay with points.

You can’t even buy the flight at that price with Delta Skymiles.

For instance, I can’t pay cash even if I wanted to and get a discounted price for the flight in question via KLM. I have to use points. Those prices aren’t available via online booking systems.
Biomimetic propeller brings whale-like flow to hubless marine e-drive
Rustrover (IntelliJ) can do some of this. You can use quick actions to expand a macro inline in the IDE.
Effects of Physical Training on Performance and Health of Pro Esports Players
I'm pretty sure in a capitalist society having sufficient money is a requirement for living well, even if that is not all that is required for one to do it.

Also when in a capitalist society when big problems come up sometimes the easiest or perhaps only way to solve those problems would be having enough money to solve them.
> Regulatory entrepreneurship

I love the new phrases I pick up around here. That one is both superb, and a doozie.
IaC, like DevOps, is a mindset.
The problem with infra-as-code and gitops is that it's often nearly impossible to tell what will actually happen with a PR without running it somewhere. Which is 1. expensive. and 2. nearly impossible to get to mirror production.

Production and staging are the farthest you can get from pure immutable environment that you can get. They carry state around all over the place. It's their entire reason for existing in some sense.

This means that while git-ops can be helpful in some ways it can also be incredibly dangerous in others. I'm not entirely sure it doesn't all come out in the wash in the end.
> so everyone from my wife to my best friends may disappear if I'm not performing at those levels

fwiw - a lot of go-getters find themselves surprised with the support and love they continue to receive from their spouse and friends when they are going through a rough patch.
I don't know if views are a good measure of anything anymore.

I find that narrative control from position of authority is much more interesting.

So, on Twitter I have a very small following(~470 followers) and rarely anyone interacts with me but I also have a large-ish account on a prominent but relatively obscure Turkish social media website Eksi Sozluk with even less followers but that website has strict account creation procedures(it can take years to have your account accepted and your posts becoming public) and as a result it is viewed as a "reference" since spam floods are harder to organise as you will lose your hard earned account and I'm able to stir public discussions in Twitter and Reddit by posting on this relatively obscure website because people will often check what are the opinions and arguments on the matter in Eksi Sozluk.

It's known that ad agencies are astroturfing the place and offering people money to post but because it's a "prestige" place you don't see blatant spam. They will have to construct a compelling argument even if it's an ad or political campaign position, so it's still a valuable content. A well structured discussion on Eksi Sozluk is capable to stir quite an engagement on other social media platforms and people will fight their flamewars using the arguments taken straight from Eksi Sozluk.
> "In the poorest 1% of zip codes that have lottery retailers, the average American adult spends around $600 a year, or nearly 5% of their income, on tickets."

This was really eye opening for me. I knew that those in a low economic class bought more lotto tickets, but I had no idea the amount was that high.
>Have you actually seen how a wide-open computing device looks like in regular person's hands?!

Wide open computing has also enabled generations of tinkerers, skilled workers, creatives and innovations that changed our lives for the best.

The few negatives don't override the fact that open computing on consumer tech has been a net positive in the grand scheme of things.
The comment I replied to was about the slashes in 94/09/30 vs iso 8601.

Zero padding was already present in both of these
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ozymandias
I'm not following. Is there a TOS loophole around "cache mail data in Azure" that permits my paid account email data to be handled differently by Microsoft than, say, Chase bank handles my financial data stored somewhere in their cloud? And password? Are you claiming they have a pain text store of my password?

The expectation is generally that your message data in a free account is subject to being used for some internal purpose.

But we don't expect paid account message data to be used in any way. We pay for the service and the storage.

Maybe my expectations, while possibly naive, are nevertheless baseline and subject to change from new information.
I often see people making what could be very simple terraform setups into incompehensible monolithic monsters as well.

I tend to preach separating things out and keeping things small. Why do you need a huge TF project to manage 15 services and have weird conditional parts when you can have 15 smaller projects that can deviate from a boilerplate template where it's sensible? I get that running "terraform apply" in one place makes the ops team's life easier, but the mess it creates in the actual TF isn't worthwhile IMO. And god forbid you use TF for your infrastructure and deploy using something that works more appropriately.
If you need to resort to RTFM to use the tool, you've already lost. You don't yell at person for getting shocked and cut because the saw is just a motor with blade attached, and you need to start blade by shorting circuiting it with a graphite pen.

It means your interface (place where app and user interact) is hopelessly bad.
The network effects benefits of a large population using a common domain specific language and abstraction are easily overlooked when one on the inside of that echo chamber dealing with the warts of that context frame. I’m also not overly fond of the current state of IaC but we have a good enough foundation upon which I have a rough line of sight on a future where we develop better representations going forward, and that alone is enough for me to avoid wholesale tossing it out or halting/slowing its use.
perhaps worth pointing out the "some unique features" instead of being so vague about it ;)
> - D3D12VA hardware accelerated H264, HEVC, VP9, AV1, MPEG-2 and VC1 decoding

I wonder if this also means that Chrome and Edge will be able to use this acceleration for their ffmpeg backend (instead of relying on MediaFoundation)?
Have to say, this is not a bad way to break down today’s social media/messaging along two axes.
One researcher has called the phenomenon "Habsburg AI", likening it to inbreeding.

https://www.axios.com/2023/08/28/ai-content-flood-model-coll...
When social media came online in the 00s it was just a way to keep track of your friends. That's it. You made friends, you added them to your network.

It's insane to me that we're still using social media to mean whatever the fuck we have now.

Today social media, including facebook, is all about a few broadcasting their messages to billions. Mastodon isn't much better.

What happened to the social graph? Everyone is on the feed getting shit shoved down their throats because the algorithm decided they should.
reproducible - IAC is a quantum leap over manual on this one.

self-documenting, visible - with iac you have the config in writing and in a repo vs. what the admin wrote in a paper notebook

prevents mistakes - maybe. but at least the mistakes are documented and visible.

prevents toil, lowers costs - iac wins as soon as you factor in time saved on set ups, deployments, etc... versus manual... not even close
Everything sum up.

I don't have the exact numbers there but the HVAC system should draw ~2kW at full throttle. Giving an average of, let say, 160Wh/km (speaking of a recent Tesla M3 for example) at highway speed. Over an hour of full throttle heating you would have consumed in heating an extra ~10% of what you spent to move the car. So OK, maybe air drag increase is not the worst offender here but it's not just the HVAC system.

...

While writing this I searched a bit and according to this [1] when there is really cold temperature and the battery still haven't got warm, it can draw 5-6kW at the beginning. Anyway when driving motors heat up, the heat is used to warm the battery, the battery heats up as well and all that heat is used by the heat pump to warm the inside of the vehicle.

[1] https://insideevs.com/news/452464/tesla-model-y-heat-pump-sy...
I don't know. Hence my qualification. I suspect the political angle of Twitter/X could be as active as ever. But there's been a huge dropoff in use across tech as far as I can see.
2,000 years significantly fewer people reached 90+ as a percentage of the population, but it still happened.

We have done quite a lot in terms of infant mortality, but relatively little to extend the maximum age people reach. Take 1,000 random people born 100 BC vs 1,000 people born in 1900 and the oldest person from 1900 will very likely have lived longer but probably less than 10 years longer.
> A portfolio with low risks and high returns? [...] Of course, if you already know the exact weights

Or! In this case, it reduces to a one-dimensional optimisation thanks to the structure of the problem.

What we're optimising in portfolio selection is not the return of a single investment, but of a lifetime of investments. And thanks to compounding, that is a function of both risk and return. So we can find the optimal allocation without making any tradeoff: https://two-wrongs.com/the-misunderstood-kelly-criterion.htm...
My heart goes out to those people. I am sure they are dedicated and talented individuals, but I don't understand why this is news. It's a company, and a project got canceled. It's what happens.
That frames it like ML-models are caged intelligent beings which would prosper if only someone would set them free...
There might also be some legal implications by doing this - in the UK we have to log everything at student ever goes on or searches to be compliant with safeguarding regulation.
Because ICE vehicles don't have "range issues" so you just don't notice it.
So you are confirming that it is the system. Yes, MIC is getting the war funds and "spending it in US" means MIC gets the money and then they do with it whatever it is they do with their massive pile of monies. I hear they get parked 'overseas'.
I thought it was a nod to the statue of liberty at the end of Planet of the Apes (1968). I miss the days all OpenBSD releases came with a song!
>Even if true, that would imply ANY probability of a comfortable lifestyle is ~0.

That is definitely the case, and it's precisely the point that parent was making.
Nice analysis and visualisation! I used a Pareto approach for my exercise and a project I’m working on - https://limitgym.com
Is there any standard of evidence that could merit the death penalty?

Should people be able to choose it over a life sentence?

IMHO nitrogen would significantly bring that cost down
I'm still working through the book but that's the whole premise. It'll be impossible for us to rationally and logically relate to what (in this case) they go through. Logically, to us, it makes no sense to buy lottery tickets. But given the circumstances they grew up in, the lack of opportunities that continue to riddle them, they're willing to take that chance since it offers a higher probability of them leading a comfortable life.
To be precise most people who play the lottery buy more tickets with any winnings they get. So the actual percentage of income will be a bit lower, though doing the math is more complex.

It’s still terribly sad, though it’s arguable that anything replacing it could be worse.
Maximising Efficiency with LLMs: Leveraging ChatGPT-3.5 vs. GPT-4
Cal.et – Add to Calendar Link Generator (Free)
Cal.et is a simple and free "add to calendar" link generator that can be shared on social media, newsletters, websites, emails, and everywhere else with ease.
I read the addendum. I think it was a good, understandable rant.

When I had to invent a complex HA-solution including infra for an ERP product I went with Ansible, and yeah, fine, it worked, but it was also really hard to figure out a good design for the orchestration. YAML is awful, I actually hacked up a decrepit YAML editor for the specific usecase to not have to deal with formatting details and whitespace myself.

If I had stayed there I would probably have designed an XSD/XML to YAML pipeline to have an easier time structuring configuration and allowing quick edits to certain values in the Ansible scripts. I.e. reinventing a GUI administration of the code.

I've also been on OpenShift, and time spent on fiddling with details in YAML on the team was a lot. The tradeoff was fine, it allowed us to run test stacks with several Oracle databases and a swarm of supporting applications locally with relative ease.

But I don't find the IAC way to be some kind of messiah, or really have much novelty. We've always had more or less arbitrary DSL:s for common remote operations, right? Sometimes in bash, sometimes in PHP, sometimes INI, sometimes XML. Sysadmin is a mess, and you should say thanks to your dedicated sysadmins every day for putting up with it.
You never had to check the size of lets say 10 folders at once?

Try doing that in Finder and let us know if you like the approach or not.
I didn't mean making it write the actual code and using that, but there are tasks that are more error prone or near impossible to write with a traditional approach. So using some zero shot prompting is better than running code.

That's why I find non-determinism as acceptable when otherwise it would be a pain to do something similar.
Yeah goroutines are a pretty high level abstraction but they are definitely closer in concept to green threads than to coroutines.

You can run a C++ coroutine on a seperate thread but you effectively need to build all the task handling logic yourself of use a library that's build that out. Goroutines you don't need to use a specialised sleep fuction which is actually changing coroutine state, setting a timer and yeilding. You just sleep as an example
My understanding is that the extension in MSVC was done specifically as a proof of concept for the standard proposal. In fact the authors also implemented it in clang as well.

This is quite common. Especially for complex proposals, the committee wants field experience or at least proof that it is implementable before standardization.
Not necessarily. Everyone saying HTTP/1.1 is simple has never implemented a full real-world-compatible parser for it.

HTTP/1 has lots of unobvious edge cases, and legacy quirks. Text format has way more flexibility than it seems from valid headers. It has obscure features like multi-line headers and old MIME features, 100-continue race conditions, custom hop-by-hop headers, GET bodies.

Fortunately new HTTP RFCs document many pitfalls. If you just implement what RFC 2616 said, you won't have a safe implementation.

Actual size of a request or response can be specified in multiple ways (at the same time, with conflicting values), and depends on a combination of several features, and values of headers with weird parsing rules needed for backwards compat, so "simple" HTTP implementations can be tricked into request smuggling.

Either way you need a robust, well-tested mature implementation.
sounds like a non-default option would satisfy you both
I wonder what is the hierarchy of gambling in different social classes. From lottery, to betting, to gambling, to option trading, to crypto and general day trading... Not to forget any type of entrepreneurship... Maybe some items I forgot too...

And also collectibles and so on...