skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I was thinking in the context of an open source project, where the users are hopefully converting to productive community members. If it is, like, a job, with a customer service relationship, where they are paying to be able to just throw problems at you and you have to deal with fixing them, I’m sure this wouldn’t fly, so I agree there. (I think my brain short-circuited to open source because it is on GitHub, haha, but of course there’s no reason this couldn’t be used in a proprietary setting).

I’m not sure how it would work out in the case of a free, community driven project, though. The goal isn’t to serve users, it is to convert users into helpful community members. If the bot converts people who wouldn’t otherwise be converted, it seems like a win. If it chases away users who could have been converted with human intervention, that’s a lose. But the human community members can always jump into the thread as well… if the bot is filtering out lots of people and nobody from the community is intervening, I guess that tells us something about the priorities of the community, haha.
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hey there! the devops role sounds awesome, but i haven't worked with GCP in a few years. GCP experience is bolded on the posting, so obviously it's important, but as long as the rest of the experience lines up are y'all open to Azure/AWS expats?
Not e/acc, just old fashioned environmental advocacy.
Python has a bunch of facilities for poking holes in the "normal" execution flow (most "dunder" methods), but true enlightenment comes from understanding that it's all just dictionaries, type descriptors, functions, and a particularly gnarly execution order all the way down. The CPython interpreter has some pretty interesting C code too.
For some people, yes. But for the majority, I'd say no.

In my mind a lot of the outrage is just generated through FUD that the big corps create when their ability to place themselves in a position to create false scarcity (and hence "value") is threatened. A big clue to these types of people are if they say anything about money or profit: e.g. "OSS devs need to make money too"

For the RMS believers, OSS is a more fundamental attempt to change mankind at a time before the greedy asshats could capture and restrict things. The birth of the electronic age, and software in particular was viewed as a golden opportunity to capture the value we created for EVERYONE. This is a HUGE reason you see so many OSS devs that will work thanklessly on code for years or decades for no pay, they are the doctors-without-borders of the tech world, they really give a shit about freeing humanity from usury and corporate value capture.

It's been really interesting to watch as the internet was captured, in a space where the cost of reproduction is literally zero, they've still been incredibly successful in strategically shunting a lion's share of the value for themselves where they then proceed with leveraging the artificial scarcity to capture that value monetarily.

Considering this in the face of what we've been taught about today's capitalist society, owning the means of production is really only a small part of the greedy antisocial playbook of those who market in false scarcity. Don't think for a second that this isn't an ideological war, one that will be fought with all the information weapons at the disposal of those who stand to lose in a free and open society.
I just tested the platform out. I am really impressed by the results of a search for papers regarding protein inhibitors for the treatment of cancer. I actually was able to find at least 4 new informative papers that gave good insights to my research.

I am impressed because I have spent roughly 3 months researching this topic on Science Direct and PubMed and I did not expect your engine to turn up anything new. To this point, in less than six minutes, your search engine was able to give me more relevant search results than probably a week of searching Science Direct.

Great work!

(oh yeah, I know people are commenting about the interface, but I actually like the clean look of the search results. It is the home page that leaves something to be desired)
>Unless this was triggered by an executive order

Not executive order I don't think, but yes, from the White House's offices directly. This didn't originate from NASA administration.

https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Celest...
If they need 100x the available training data to scale beyond their current capabilities they clearly don't scale particularly well.
The use of AI and the authorisation to kill civilians are unrelated parts of this story. Nowhere does it mention that the AI is being used to justify killing of civilians.
I'm a mathematician, currently working as a private tutor for adults who want to learn proof-based math. I had a quick glance through this book and it seems to me like a pretty nice version of this "intro to proofs" sort of book. This is a topic that's done well in a lot of different books, though, so if you really want to dig into this topic I'd maybe recommend looking at a couple different ones and finding the one that agrees with you the most.

Right now I have a student working on this material and we're using "How to Prove It: A Structured Approach" by Daniel Velleman, which so far I'm finding decent. Some others I've seen (but that I haven't looked at in as much detail) are "Proofs: A Long-Form Mathematics Textbook" by Jay Cummings and "Book of Proof" by Richard Hammack.
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I think the main argument is based on diminishing returns. They expected larger improvement in performance given the 5x increase in number of parameters.
Is the AI the one deciding to let all the children of Gaza starve? I’d like to know how far this death machine goes?
i grew up in a rural area (45 minute bike ride to my friends house)

i then lived in a dense urban neighborhood

i then lived in a walkable university bubble town

i then lived in a 1st generation walkable semi-suburb w/ small plots/old (1910s) houses

i now live in a suburb in a mountain town

they all have advantages and disadvantages

one thing that many fans of urbanism ignore is how important a strong common culture & politeness is for comfortable urban living once you have children
It also possible it just dropped it silently in the Downloads directory.

Otherwise ironical that all of this behaves like the 90s PalmOS which could not store a file unless a program would accept it.
Yep, this was the one I was thinking about.

And while these incidents aren't frequent, we are talking about very long time frames. It would be interesting if we could somehow look into the future and see how many incidents will occur.

Maintenance is a big concern. Although if we're willing to spend a lot of effort on how to label these things to appear obviously dangerous for long time frames then I think some time can also be spent on long term maintenance.
The IDF is headquartered in the middle of Tel Aviv. Unlike them, the Palestinian resistance groups in Gaza don't have a lot of options. It's effectively a concentration camp and it's one of the most densely populated areas on earth. So you're effectively saying you don't accept Palestinians have a right to resist their colonization. Just say that, rather than trying to hide behind "human shield" tropes.
ChatGPT jailbreak prompts proliferate on hacker forums
You may be confusing prompt injection with jailbreaking. You should care about prompt injection even if you don't care about jailbreaking:

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Mar/5/prompt-injection-jailbr...

Prompt injection is a security
issue. It’s about preventing
attackers from emailing you and
tricking your personal digital
assistant into sending them your
password reset emails.

No matter how you feel about “safety
filters” on models, if you ever want
a trustworthy digital assistant you
should care about finding robust
solutions for prompt injection.

To be fair, this library attempts to solve both at once.
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On the measure of intelligence (2019)
I read that Barclays estimated total insurance claims would be $2-3B ($1-1.5B for bridge and rest for wrongful death claims and loss of business), with most of that falling on the Lloyds of London market. FYI they received over $65B in premiums last year (and made a profit of $10B)
Number of Chinese Devices in US Networks Growing Despite Bans
> Applying the law in that way just seems to be a way to enable bullying of the little guy by rich corporations.

Agreed.

The owners are under zero obligation to sell as is, what is that line again that companies love to use? "We have a right to refuse service to anyone, as long as it's not discriminating against a particular class under federal, state, or local law."

This would be like a dealership suing a bunch of people because they refused to trade in their car to them while someone was protesting the dealership and said "these cars are worth more than XY dealership offers, don't trade to them."
price and or convenience
I used a ton of floppies since mid-1980s and until early 2000s. The names I actively associate with floppies in my visual memory are BASF, TDK, Maxell, and Sony. I did have the occasional 3M floppy, but these were somehow rare.

OTOH 3M easily evokes images of all things adhesive.
> 1. The single website/app is not just useful for discovery, but also to provide a consistent ordering experience. An individual restaurant might take orders over the phone, via their website, or via their own app. Those options will vary from one restaurant to the next. Not great for customers.

Aye. Arguably this is why old-school streaming Netflix won so well -- all of your options in one place. Likewise, there is one app for all food choices nearby.

Also agree on the second point, though presumably larger chains in built up areas could play the same game; e.g. Domino's in a borough of NYC has an "all-drivers-in-Queens" pool.
99%+ of species were driven to extinction, first from their environments becoming bathed in oxygen they were powerless to resist, and then from the whole planet freezing over for an eon (except maybe some equatorial refugia). Volcanism eventually restored enough CO2, with the oxygenators frozen, so the ice could melt.
right i was kinda being cheeky about how large models are all called GenAI by product/business types heh
From my understanding it comes from a law passed that allows unlimited access by state intelligence services in China to any firms customer data.

"The most controversial sections of the law include Article 7 which potentially compels businesses registered or operating in the People's Republic of China to hand over information to Chinese intelligence agencies such as the MSS and to conceal the fact that they do so." [1]

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Law_of_t...
I don't know the capabilities of such weapon systems, all I see is what we have on TV: a threat was identified as a moving vehicule, usually a bright shape on a black and white IR/thermal monitor.

And even if that weapon system was able to perform a high quality visible light magnification... how do know this is not a trick from the opponents?
US cities are remarkably different than European cities. I personally consider the likes of Seattle, SF or San Jose a grade A shithole. NY felt a bit better, but I can see why people consider it dehumanizing if you live in Manhattan.

If you have never been abroad, I'd recommend you take a long trip to a European city and try to live like a local. If possible I'd avoid the world class metropolis that might feel a bit less homely, and target for smaller cities instead. My aim is not to change your mind about suburbs and cities, instead the experience might expand your mind and help you see why people love the lifestyle.
> Because of the different gravitational field strength on the Moon, time moves quicker there relative to Earth - 58.7 microseconds every day.

So it is beneficial to move computers there because they would make more computation per year.

Though 58.7us/day is ~21ms/year which is 6.8e-10, one needs a really big scale to make it meaningful.
Curious what you are missing to make the jump.
It's you. :) More magnanimously, you caught the story for the first time this year. I seem to come across a story about it every year around this time ever since first learning of it a couple of years ago through the Tennessee Naturalists community I follow on Facebook. As the tree spreads, so too does the knowledge of its unflattering qualities. Awareness efforts are likely to continue until community leaders take action.
I also thought it was odd. There's also different random bytes (not random text, actual random bytes) prefixed to the start the scripts, but the bytes are prefixed by a hash symbol, which comments them out, so they don't affect the script. It seems intentional, but I can't think of why they would be there. I thought maybe xz would skip compression if the input was short/not complex enough or something, so they were added to pad the size, but removing them and re-compressing with xz seems to properly compress it, none of the original plaintext is in the compressed archive bytes.

One thing I noticed while trying to reproduce the exact bytes included in the .xz file committed to git is that the script's xz stream doesn't seem to be compressed by any of the default xz presets, I was only able to reproduce it by using `xz --lzma2=dict=65536 -c stream_2`. All the default numbered presents chose a different dictionary size. Another odd seemingly intentional choice, but again I don't understand the reasoning.
Opera was "bloatware" from the beginning. They call it integration, and when you do it well, it can be beneficial.
Good luck feeling 0.1⁰C
Read between the lines, they're trying to blame their AI for the civilian casualties.
Yeah, I don't like this at all. If I'm going to evaluate a prompt injection protection strategy I need to be able to see how it works.

Otherwise I'm left evaluating it through wasting my time playing whac-a-mole with it, which won't give me the confidence I need because I can't be sure an attacker won't guess a strategy that I didn't think of myself.

This doesn't even include details of the evals they are using! It's impossible to evaluate whether what they've built is effective or not.

I'm also not keen on running a compiled .so file released by a group with no information on even who the authors are.
>Bluetooth can work, but it is slow as hell, and Apple doesn't support it.

Wait, seriously? iPhones still don't support Bluetooth file transfers? I knew this was the case with the first iPhone but I just accepted that's a limitation from the OS being still an early release of a brand new product with limited functionality, I wouldn't have expect this to be the case after 15 years.

Anyway, I'm still baffled we never got a standardized Wi-Fi file transfer protocol, like with Bluetooth but at wi-fi speeds.

Oh right, nevermind, Apple wouldn't have supported anyway versus their own proprietary one that only works on Apple devices.
Fair, needs work. Would you be more interested if you could control the style of all the images? Like realistic, illustration, cyberpunk, clip-art, etc?
> "We keep getting requests to..."

If you are getting consistent feedback from your customer base that they desire a feature, why would you second-guess that feedback by asking a different group of people if they agree?
Let's say that you own an item of sentimental value that you are not willing to sell, but if somebody would offer 1 billion for it then you would seriously consider to do it.
I don't disagree re. pricing. My interest is more the technology generally. I have had some recent convos with Bitcoin founders specifically who have made me understand better its utility in a wider digitized financial system because of it's more secure Proof of Work system (vs ETHs Proof of Stake).
There are measurable differences, sure. There's ongoing discussion how many of them should be attributed to being a male and how many to being a man. The ones attributed to being a man are no different in nature than the ones attributed to being a Leo. They are cultural. They are stornger, but only because the human culture is (and was) much more obsessed about gender than the zodiac. Also because zodiac is completely empty but men/women piggybacks on the real male/female differences.

Male/female differences are real and objective but they manifest mostly on the long tails of normal distribution. When you exclude the outliers that male sex has way more of then differences between sexes shrink to almost nothing across nearly all qualities.
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Since I have a couple Chase credit cards my immediate question is how do I shut off these targeted ads?
Based on leaks, it looks like intel somehow missed an easy opportunity here. There is an insane demand for high VRAM cards now, and it seems the next intel cards will be 12GB.

Intel, screw everything else, just pack as much VRAM in those as you can. Build it and they will come.
How? We both read the same article!
> Nobody's being held in an Amazon warehouse against their will

In the US, needing health insurance has kept me at a job against my will and I’m a white collar worker.

> Any beef is between Amazon and their workers, not Amazon and me.

It becomes ur beef if Amazon becomes a government entity as OP was saying in their hypothetical.
Show HN: Solar Eclipse paths plotted in Google Sheets
Hi! I created this spreadsheet using Google Sheets + Python using Neptyne[0]. Path coordinates are imported from the NASA catalog of eclipses for the 21st century. If you make a copy and install the Neptyne extension, you can view and run the code used to pull the data and produce the images.

With the extension installed, you can also geocode an address to find which paths come closest to your location.

Full disclosure: I am a co-founder of Neptyne.

[0]: https://neptyne.com/google-sheets
Yeah I made a project with Supabase for the backend, Vercel for the frontend (literally all you do it git push and it handles deployments), and then Nuxt.js for the frontend.

It was pretty simple for someone who had no frontend experience. I will say that I'm sure if the app took off it would have scaling issues, but for the few users it had this worked fine.
In an actual post-apocalyptic situation there wouldn't be any usable gasoline left within a year. EV's would actually last longer with a proper solar array.
RPS meaning reads or writes? What's the distribution of message sizes, and how large is your total dataset? What specs (core count, NIC) did each node have?

I'm asking because without this info, RPS is not a particularly useful metric. As an extreme example, if your dataset is <1MB, you could likely serve read-heavy requests from your SmartNIC's dcache at close to line rate.
Seems a little cruel in retrospect considering it was humans watching you, but I suppose there wasn't an easy way to gain this information
This is probably the worst take ever.

It's pretty amazing how the tools keep up with the increasing complexity of the products we make.

And to be honest, in most cases just make it simpler, I think people just don't like to learn new stuff.
With hooks you are able to render your html server side while still having some js functionality. Technically you can also render server side with LiveSvelte as it supports SSR out of the box, but this SSR uses Node and that introduces a slight performance decrease (around 3ms I believe).

I've been looking at Bun to see if it would help but it's still unclear to me.

Heex rendering is just way faster.

If you don't care about SSR for certain components (for example modals, they don't need SSR generally), then I don't see a clear advantage for hooks.
The same laws apply to American companies for American data requested by American agencies, is that better? And likely Norwegian too, but I don't know the specifics there.
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Albums released on floppy:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tRm2_Uy_7bk

Sony invented the 3.5" floppy:

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

I recently went through my large box of old 3.5" disks and discovered that most of them are failing. The older 5 1/4" disks seem better, maybe because the density is lower.
Yes. You can process it once to the standard tier, and egress as much as you want for free.

The differences stack up for say, a 1GB video that becomes viral and triggers terabytes in egress. You pay for 1GB, not terabytes.

It’s also an optional tier.
Yes, because in a well-designed setup files that are frequently accessed would be restored to standard tier. Ideally you'd only pay the data processing fee once when files transition from infrequently accessed to frequently accessed. There's a breakeven point at a data access rate of once every two months.
That seems like a breach that they went forward with the update based on some random persons request. Oh you're getting pushy? I guess we better listen to this guy.
I'm not even sure, but can private individuals engage in price fixing? The owners are under no obligation to even sell at all, let alone at a "market price" that a hedge fund determined is their sweet spot.
Power of global data and analytics in strengthening of public procurement
I haven't found any scientific value in prompt engineering papers I read.
Design of Bird-Inspired 3D-Printed Models to Evaluate Grasp Mechanics
Maybe the cold-to-hot migration "tax" is partially to prevent abuse?

> "Data retrieval is charged per GB when data in the Infrequent Access storage class is retrieved and is what allows us to provide storage at a lower price. It reflects the additional computational resources required to fetch data from underlying storage optimized for less frequent access."

I like the "automatic storage classes" idea as well.

> "…you can define an object lifecycle policy to move data to Infrequent Access after a period of time goes by and you no longer need to access your data as often. In the future, we plan to automatically optimize storage classes for data so you can avoid manually creating rules and better adapt to changing data access patterns."
'Lavender': The AI machine directing Israel's bombing in Gaza
It feel like the premise of this article is misguided. Personally, I find suburbia to be pretty hellish and depressing in most ways. I could never live there, but I assume that the people who do live there enjoy it or they'd live somewhere else. I'd be surprised if people who live there for a long time don't have nostalgia about it. It's not a matter of not understanding, it's just that suburbia is very much not my cup of tea.
In Poker it isn't so much about how many hands you win or lose, it's about creating big pots when you have good hands and small pots otherwise. That's how good poker players can profitably play bad cards (that are statistically unlikely to make good hands).

In chess the table stakes are always the same. One point for a win, half a point for a draw. To win consistently at chess you have to play the openings carefully, play the mid game strategically, and grind out all the end games. Sloppy players who occasionally make brilliant moves don't get anywhere in chess, because a brilliant sequence of moves will only earn you a single point while small mistakes will still result in full point losses.

In cash game poker you can play sloppy but when you see the opportunity win a huge pot that makes up for all the mistakes and then some.

Tournament poker is a bit more like chess. Successful tournament poker players win by grinding out small victories over the course of many hours.