skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
this was a serious question
The point of chaining exceptions is to add information to an error result. It prevents one from having to pass down information to produce an error message that makes sense to the user.
Blocking Faces on Social Media
Social media experience could be greatly enhanced (on all platforms) if we were able to block faces from ever appearing on a timeline.

Blocking a person's account is not always enough, since certain public figures generate enough conversation/controversy that many other accounts will be posting or creating content about them (think presidents, internet gurus...)

Blocking/muting words or phrases (ie names) helps, but cannot completely remove someone's presence from a timeline, since images of a person are not always accompanied by their name (think YouTube thumbnails, media on X, memes...)

Any solutions out there?
Interesting... you're right, this is giving me lots of wednesdays.
> Not really, no? To first approximation all errors are system call failures

How does this help predict whether they are handled or not higher up the stack?
I never had an Amiga, but I had friends that had it. It was a superior tech only for a very small period of time.

What happened was Intel, they took great decisions like automating the design of their processors and this made them grow at an incredible pace. The Amiga depended on a different processor that stagnated.
The rich will try to hide the defects of capitalism for as long as they can. And then we'll have a revolution.
We felt it at 10:26 am ET. And an alert was sent to everyone at 11:24 am that an earthquake is coming. And then another one alerting for possibility of aftershocks. No aftershocks felt.
Like when people were working in private equity, marketing, law, finance, etc before the machines took AG jobs?

Those jobs didn't really exist yet, because everyone was too busy trying to get enough to eat.

~50% of the people on the planet live in pretty miserable conditions. We do not live in the age of abundance. Contrary to popular opinion, if we just split up Bill Gates's money, it would not be enough for everyone to have a nice life. On net, we will benefit massively from freeing up labor to do other things - beside mundane things that could be automated but currently cost too much to automate with current methods for it to make sense to automate them.
Grats for the amazing work! LFortran is very cool project.
A human approval tool for LLM agent workflows
Hey. We have worked on LLM apps that were triggered by existing tools, like customer support tickets arriving and the LLM chain kicks off to analyze the request, determine what to do next, and for example, write a response.

But we needed a way for users to check and approve these agent actions. Without an active chat session, this is tricky, and we didn't find anything to help us with this.

So we started working on a human oversight tool that can be integrated into any custom LLM chain. Need human approval? Call our API, the request goes to a user's inbox and we'll call you back via webhook with the decision.

gotohuman.com

Would be great to hear your thoughts
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I had to support an open source library for all major unixes and the Irix compiler was by far the best one. It took years for the rest to catch up. But it took ages to compile with optimizations on. Good times.
It's so so different where I live (Poland). It's still super common here to pair up in high school or university where you are basically still a bunch of nobodies and stay together through the fire and flames™ unless literal abuse is involved or the very basics of personality don't match.
Material status or ambition is almost never a factor even among couples of top performers I know. We were kind of raised to expect various big changes in life. Career interest changes, economical downturns, wars. You just... cannot rely on such things at all so it doesn't make sense to care much about that.
Execs create the future, they don’t predict it. If an exec with all their huge command of resources wants to remake job roles around AI and find ways to get more efficiency out of each person, then they have a pretty good chance of making that happen to some degree. True there may be technical limits, but this tech has a lot of present day potential and it’s very plausible some work will be automated.
Yes they are, React is dead.
Perfusion not percussion! Damn autocorrect...
Just this week I tried to use AI for two tasks,

1. I asked ChatGPT to explain to me what NEM12 and NEM13 files are in the Australian energy market, what's the difference, how they're used and how they relate to energy meter types. It confidently gave me an answer that sounded very reasonable but upon further research was wrong in subtle but fundamental ways that made the whole exercise pointless.

2. I had an idea that you could hook up ChatGPT to the APIs exposed by most racing sims and have it be a dynamic "race engineer". I fed it with detailed information about the state of the race and asked it "in the style of a Formula 1 race engineer, craft a radio message for your driver given the following information. Only include the most important pieces of information. If you have strategic recommendations you may include them." All it did was rephrase the exact situation I had provided it, more verbosely.

This mirrors all of my experiences using LLMs to date (other than coding, which it performs slightly better at). I think these things are impressive in that they are doing things we've never seen computers do, but I have yet to find them do anything useful in a way that isn't fundamentally flawed.

I sometimes feel like I'm the only "AI" skeptic in the world, shouting into the void. This stuff just doesn't seem useful to me, and from what I have read about the technology there's no reason to believe this will dramatically change.
I couldn't find any results, just prompts, did I miss something?
I can't speak to deer, but my cousin had an elk farm previously so that was at least legal. Given concerns over wasting disease, I'm not sure if farming deer would be a good or bad idea - as in, do we end up with a concentrated population that might spread the disease faster, or do we save the species by separating it from their wild cousins?
The Nvidia lawsuit is discussed in the article.
There is always something to do that could improve the lot of our fellow humans, even if that just means hanging out with lonely people (of which there are many). The problem is finding anyone to pay someone to do these things, so that they can continue to be housed, clothed, fed, and entertained while they are.

Even short of abolishing capitalism (or at least UBI, or a decent social safety net) though, the most likely answer is that people will find work doing stuff that capital wants, and which AI can't yet do (sex work? meaningful art?), or that capital for some reason doesn't want AI to do (intelligence work? domestic servants?). I don't know what those professions will be, but it's likely some of them don't even exist yet.
US decided not to bomb Kyoto in WW2 because Henry Kissinger had visited it and was enthralled by its beauty. Somehow such decisions are ok because made by a human?
The history of financial markets is about 3-4 lifetimes long. That’s not a lot of history to go on.
I think the main issue is that the monetization efforts have resulted in blunted focus on the core product, resulting in things like long-standing unresolved bugs and technical oddities. For example the Plex installation on my home server will break itself in odd ways every so often and sometimes the only way to fix it is to nuke all cache, config, etc and start over which gets frustrating.

It’s also brought privacy concerns, because there’s incentive for Plex to harvest and sell data from users paid and unpaid alike.

I’m currently subscribed, but all of this has me on the lookout for viable replacements.
Why does the article mention mass layoffs for 600 people at Apple scale?
I did not fully verify the whole paper, but I feel pretty skeptical about usefullness of this for the small numbers. All of their formula provide a linear speed-up vs naive approach, which means that the big-O complexity is not going to be changing.

So the best thing that this paper can do for determining if a number is a prime is to speed it up by some small constant factor (at most 210)... That's less than 8 bits of 2000+ bits that is currently used in RSA signatures, so basically noise.
There's a way to make autoconf infinitely faster: get rid of it. CMake is a lot better, but still terrible, get rid of it too while you're at it.
There is some interoperability between other clients today. For example, I have a Jellyfin server but in order to connect to it on my Apple TV I use the Infuse Pro app. I think that works more because of a standardized file structure that each app creates its own indexes for, so an actual protocol that they share would still be an improvement.
when all the fracking quakes were happening a while back i felt one in Dallas. I was sitting outside at a coffeshop working. It felt like a big truck drove by but when i looked up there was no traffic at all. very strange sensation.
Well, put that way it is a market that runs on Windows with OpenGL/DirectX nowadays, or if using GNU/Linux, it is mostly with NVIDIA's proprietary drivers, specially when considering VFX reference platform.
The library is focused on text styling so it only implements ANSI SGR parameters. I used this as a reference:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ANSI_escape_code

The full list of supported SGR parameters is in the README:
https://github.com/kubetail-org/fancy-ansi?tab=readme-ov-fil...

Let me know if you have any suggestions on how to make it clearer which subset of ANSI is supported.
What sort of audio formats does this direct play? My biggest complaint with JellyFin is that it can’t play Dolby DDD+.
From my observation, China's most prominent successes (EVs, Drones, etc) have been through emerging technologies where established players have neglected. I believe the "Blue Ocean Strategy" was considered as one of the most influential books by the CCP, and they've executed that strategy well.

But in terms of "red oceans", I don't really see China having any special advantages over the already heavy competition beyond manafacturing, after all they never did make a globally competitive ICE car, it was through leapfrogging with EVs that they succeeded. If we talk about OS here, domestically they can do whatever, but I don't see why it wouldn't just be another competitor in a long list of competitors.
rabbitmq is used to communicate between services. I just introduced it but it will be used to:
- handle websockets communication with the client
- create workqueues for new items creation/rescan requests
- Watch list syncing with external services
- and to synchronize different replicas when deployed on k8s (still need work on this point tho)
Yes, because most of us have more brains than muscles.

But now the machines are after our brains too.
>My Amiga 2000 had a flat address space

Chip ram, fast ram, cpu ram, expansion board ram, or slow ram? Did too much ram force your zorro card into the slooooooooooow ram address space (mine did)? Tough cookies bucko!

Macintosh, pounding on table: "RAM is RAM!"
Prompt engineering doesn't feel like an activity that creates sustainable AI advancement. A prompt may work well with one model, in most situations, but even the best practices seem too experimental.

For their competition to avoid a PR disaster, isn't it better to look in the model? Perhaps observe the weights, when the AI says something that you want to avoid in the future. A safeguard could trigger if the model is going in that direction.
>debit-network-processed card that is backed by a line of credit.

Because then it wouldn't be a debit card? I assume that the debit-network is reserved for debit cards?
And, at some point, what does it matter if the leadership and most of the employees turn over, typically involuntarily?

Is there any significance really to Foot Locker basically being a reorganized Woolworth's as opposed to being a brand-new company?

If you're big enough and have some product lines that still bring in a lot of money and didn't totally collapse like IBM you can sometimes pull it off. But it's hard.
>>>"You could for example DPO based on another LLM's evalution of how a conversation is going,"

You can update the weights based on a single point of data (response was bad) but you probably can't usefully update a model that way.
Noted, thanks https://github.com/kubetail-org/fancy-ansi/issues/1
Why some many self-hosted mediabrowsers written on C#/Mono? (honest question)
It’s worth noting that this is specifically a shortcoming of Java’s type system and not an unsolvable problem. I’m a fan of Swift’s solution where you can directly mark a function as only rethrowing errors from a given parameter; it’s a lot simpler than making the error type a full fledged type parameter and covers most scenarios.
Kinda related, but the easiest way to limit bad randomizations is to stratified by pre-experiment data. But then that would make it harder to p-hack so its understandable why more people dont do that ;)
This is the nuremburg defense. Might want to rethink it.
I was at SGI and left with Clark to Netscape. That was a fun time in my career. That was also a time that it became clear SGI was about to explode as commodity GPUs were being developed by former SGI engineers and the core SGI graphics teams were attritting hard. Fun to read this story again and learn some of the things that happened later.
> Hualien was 5.1 at 15.9 km

That's just an aftershock.

The main quake was three days ago. M 7.4 according to USGS: https://earthquake.usgs.gov/earthquakes/eventpage/us7000m9g4...

So for an earthquake that's almost 1000x as strong, you'd think it'd be talked about more.
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SYAC: This is content marketing with a CTA of "subscribe to André Mafei's newsletter", which is fine. The hook is that Mr. Mafei will send you some analysis of the data, none of which appear on the site or in the repo.
(1999) https://www.eetimes.com/sgi-graphics-team-moves-to-nvidia/
What does this mean for Post-Quantum Gravity?
On HP-UX 10, back in 2000, the C compiler version I was using still wasn't fully ANSI C, and needed K&R C function declarations, but hey at least we had containers (HP Vault), and 64 bit file system access.
It’s whatever the free default is. I’m not going to give them money if it can’t get basic things right.
You can't rely on how these languages describe mapping.

Map doesn't simply iterate (that would be forEach), it creates another piece of information containing f(a) for all a in the input sequence.

What would iterating over a tree yields ? what would mapping over a tree yields ? how do you define the latter ?
> Liblzma ends up dynamically linked to sshd because of a systemd-related extension added by many Linux packagers that pulls in liblzma as an unrelated dependency.

Lots of dependencies -> bad. Reducing dependencies will sometimes necessitate open-coding things, which too can be bad.

But what's interesting here is that if you're trying to find a good place to insert a backdoor, all you need to do is analyze the dependency graphs of targets of interest looking for ones which might be vulnerable to compromise via social engineering or other vectors. We should do our own such analysis looking for places that need to be watched better or removed.
Aren’t they? Isn’t that what sprawl is? Obviously, not literally creating more physical land, but developing land into useable land.

They’re making more useable land.
I completely agree.

Which is why I propose 9front as an alternative point to start from.

But it has few apps, and is too different to readily port to.

So, I'm suggesting a way to efficiently run Linux apps on 9front without emulating Linux.

So we can use existing tools while working on replacements.
And, just like every Unix workstation vendor of the 1990s, they got hit with a perfect storm. They had their hardware being disrupted by x86 really coming into its own as a viable option for higher-end computing at the exact same time that Linux was becoming a serious option for the operating system.

"Literally something that should not exist" is the perfect way of putting it. In 1990, lots of people needed boutique workstation vendors. In 2000, nobody did.
The only reasonable framework to compare programming language :-)
The way I see it, the one who pays for the phone keeps it when both parties "part ways"
It's possible. Seismicity has been associated with reservoirs[1] (the most well known is probably an earthquake in Egypt following the construction of the Aswan High Dam) and even rainfall[2]. There are both potential triggers from the increase in the stress on the fault, as you state, due to the weight of the water; and (probably more important) the increase in pore fluid pressure along the fault.

It's a bit complicated, because the increase in stress on the fault from the weight of the reservoir can actually be primarily an increase in normal stress, i.e. an increase in the clamping force preventing the fault from slipping (i.e. the crust on either side of the fault sliding, i.e. the earthquake), so the weight of the reservoir can actually impede, rather than promote, seismicity. However if the geometry of the system is just right such that the increase in shear stress from the weight of the reservoir can increase on the fault, then the reservoir could really trigger the earthquake. Typically, though, the increase in pore fluid pressure is the most likely trigger as it's not geometry dependent--pumping a fracture with fluids will always promote failure. This is what happens with the seismicity associated with natural gas fracking and subsequent wastewater fluid injection.

The thing that is hard to grapple with all of this is that changes in stress and fluid pressure on the fault are really, really small compared with the ambient stress and fluid pressure. These are tiny changes, but there is good reason to believe that many faults, especially those in seismically active areas, are very close to frictional failure (i.e., slipping and producing an earthquake) all the time. So therefore little things can perturb the system. However, it's worth keeping in mind that most of these small changes slightly increase or decrease the time to failure (as the primary loading that is causing the stress on the fault is probably continually happening at very low rates), rather than being the ultimate cause of the earthquake.

[1]: https://scholar.google.com/scholar?hl=en&as_sdt=0%2C48&q=dam...

[2]: https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1029/200...
It can direct play whatever your client supports, for now only android and web are supported clients.
Web browsers aren't great with media compatibility tho, I think you will face the same limitations as with Jellyfin.
I do not mind as much using my own mobile if it is a TOTP standard that I do not need to install spyware for. I have already TOTP apps that I can add QR and it's not costly or difficult.

Any kind of third party internet required app? Do I required Microsoft Authenticator or Duo - always on push access, internet required, logs my phone's IP and location? They must pay for the device and the plan. If you want me enter MDM, Outlook, ActiveSync? They must pay for the device and the plan.
Interesting insider comment from a previous thread:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=30920824
No, I don't think it would be necessary.
2FA via TOTP does not require a phone.
2FA via SMS does not require a phone, one can utilize a VOIP service that provides SMS.
2FA via hardware token - yes it should be provided for if needed in course of employment.
> At first I froze for a few seconds as I could not make sense of what I was experiencing

i hate that feeling, a few weeks ago i was walking my dogs and surprised by a pitbill and some other mix that immediately attacked my two small dogs. It took like 5-10 seconds for me to even figure out what was happening and what to do about it.
Wow, really, execs create future?
I think articles like this are published whenever a company files paperwork to do layoffs, which is only required above a certain threshold. It's true that Apple is a large company, but if all of these layoffs are in the Bay Area that makes it a bit more material than if it were worldwide layoffs.
This doesn't surprise me at all--for most activities the majority of the risk is in the tail.
Never confuse caching with precalculation. Caches can go away while being used, or show up too late, leading to strange timing and shared state issues. A precalculated list is static. It is a knowable quantity.

It’s very much like the DRY problem where you take two pieces of similarly shaped code with different purposes and merge them, creating problems later on. They look the same, but they exist for very different reasons and do not conflate them.

If there’s a set of questions that most configure calls are bound to make, you can work those out at first run or install time. Install time gets weird with system and hardware upgrades.
When statements like X was better than Y come up. I always think of "All models are wrong, but some are useful", from statistician George E. P. Box, and rephrase it as "All models are flawed, but some are useful" so that model becomes ambiguous, such as a smartphone, TV, computer, car, programing language, programing design pattern, social media platform, and so on.

Price-point, SGI technology was a financially flawed model pertaining to the growing market and more useful than flawed performance of the low cost technology market.

Did anyone at SGI try to simply buy the low tech products, play with them a bit, and see about slowly integrating your tech to make that low tech product just a little better than the competition and cost effect for the market?
Thats, odd. I have met countless friends and aquaintances on flights. Maybe you are signalling that you have no interest in conversing.
If you're using ruby gems you're a developer and should know the diff between an os package and language lib. And this is Hacker news.

A "didn't happen to us" is noise because it could have happened for a different actor/target.
A single good result does not prove accuracy.
From your stack overflow link:

>"Feels like" is measured on seismic intensity scales such as the Mercalli scale. These measure the peak acceleration or velocity at a given point, or the damage done by the earthquake. Intensity is influenced by many things, such as the depth of the earthquake, the distance to the ruptured section of the fault, and the local surface material.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modified_Mercalli_intensity_sc...

NYC has had 5.x earthquakes that have caused e.g. chimneys to collapse, something unheard of in california.
Concentrate on how this affects your work, specifically, and take that to your manager. Then let it go.

https://www.askamanager.org/2014/10/how-to-deal-with-a-lazy-...
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CRDT looks interesting.

To share not just the results visible in the org file, a remote jupyter notebook could be used.
https://github.com/emacs-jupyter/jupyter
Ah this is awesome. I've been working on a browser based mud client and none of the existing options handled everything I needed. I'll be switching to this immediately, it seems to solve all of my current problems with displaying ansi text in the browser.
Yes. CLARiiON eventually enabled a sale to EMC (which arguably saved EMC for a time) and the Unix business (especially NUMA servers) were sufficient revenue producers for a while to keep the lights on. ThinLiiNe (or whatever the capitalization was) never went anywhere but neither did a lot of things in the dot.com era.