skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Most useful is relative. The book dealers who gave me my first ever contract for an automated leaflet generator that generated customized leaflets for each dealer would consider that the most useful. It's been over a decade and they still use it every day. Some other projects that come to my mind:

- an open source OIDC authorization and identity server (Ory Hydra and Ory Kratos)

- a system that uses computer vision to track food waste in industrial kitchens, helping them understand and minimize food waste

- a live milk quality estimator for a milking robot

- a browser extension called memorize. I wrote this reusing code from another contract I did while still in secondary school, and I'm mentioning it thanks to a user named lush berry who wrote "literally the most helpful thing i ever found on the internet. it helps me memorize stuff even when i'm procrastinating which is amazing. however, i have a lot of suggestions, does anyone know how i can contact the makers of this extension?". I wish I had the time to listen to these users and make the changes they want.
"For this invention will produce forgetfulness in the minds of those who learn to use it, because they will not practice their memory. Their trust in writing, produced by external characters which are no part of themselves, will discourage the use of their own memory within them" - Socrates
Not in its own. You also need a different boot loader. The author has an implementation called Quibble [0] that also supports btrfs.

[0] https://github.com/maharmstone/quibble
I recommend that everybody reads the README.

The author answers all the questions I've had - and much more!
I have no problem with this, as long as teachers then curate and fix LLM output. If you do you probably don’t have kids in school and don’t know what passes for “grading” otherwise. The opportunity to further reduce quality is just not there.
A fun test for me, is if you know how tall a character from a book is. Or color. Or really anything.

Outside of "notable features" for some characters, I have no concept of what they look like. And by feature, I mean Harry Potter has a scar. I couldn't tell you much about its size or orientation. Just generally lightning shaped.

This also helped solidify to me why some folks are so hung up on casting choices.
Counterpoint: Just because they won't stop any determined attacker, doesn't mean they don't have value.

Stopping casual attackers is one talking point, but still not the real value. In my opinion, the real value is making you look less like "low-hanging fruit" to automated scans - throwing a bunch of 403's makes you less likely for a follow-up after an automated scan.

I actually have a side project when I get the time to try and prove it statistically using a honeypot. I would bet the overall volume of attacks is lower with WAF enabled, and inversely correlates with the 403's thrown. Just my 2 cents.
Do you know where and when you are?
We are among an online digital map generation who has never owned a paper road map, nor stopped to ask directions, nor developed orientation skills based on nature.
The Dream Machine by Mitchell Waldrop, giving us an history about how the internet came to be centered around J.C.R. Licklider.
>60-70% of severe CVEs are due to memory safety violations...So your claim that memory unsafe languages are maybe 1% of 1% of the problem is not only completely unsubstantiated, but almost certainly false given all of the available information

Based on your tone and profile you probably aren't interested in better information here, but I'll offer anyway.

The vast majority of cybersecurity attacks, and especially the vast majority of actual incidents, don't involve CVEs. Think recent breaches at Okta, Microsoft, Uber, even SolarWinds a few years ago.

When CVEs do come into play, they're as likely to be logic flaws as anything else. Think Sandworm, Log4Shell, that Apache Struts vulnerability that Equifax didn't patch.

And when memory safety problems do bubble up, well, there are still a bunch of issues that existing memory-safe languages don't actually address. They're real, flawed tools made by real, flawed people, not magic.

So, big picture, memory-safe languages shouldn't be a top-10 priority for very many teams at this point. Maybe someday, though.
I think you are missing the point, Islam greatest miracle is the Quran. God forbid, even if all the Quran hard copies are being burnt and the digital copies are all but infected by ransomware, it will be reproduced immediately since there are many thousands so called Hafiz that memorize the entire script. This is unlike other religious books, for example Bible that even the Pope does not even capable of memorizing it.

The fact that the wormhole concept that is not yet experimentally proven, discovered or observed by scientists until today, and it was mentioned and described about 1500 years ago when there is no telescope. The concept is not only mentioned but become one of the Chapters (surah) of the Quran, in the early days of Islam when the believers are mostly confined in Mecca before the migration to Medina.

Imagine something much less spectacular than wormhole like Real Madrid football club. If Jesus somehow has mentioned Real Madrid in the red letters portion of the Bible, heck put it as one of Chapter names in the New Testament and predicted the it will be one of the most celebrated football clubs in European football then it will be a miracle more than walking on water or giving life to the dead, because the later Christians in the future can testify and attested to that rather than have to blindly believed the anecdotal narratives that were written more than 2000 years ago (and recorded as a complete book many many years after the event happened). By the way, Jesus miracle of living life back to the dead is also clearly mentioned in the Quran and his mother Maryam, a Jewish woman, was mentioned and glorified as the best of women in the world, and Maryam is one the Chapter or surah names inside the Quran unlike the Bible [1].

[1] Maryam (surah):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maryam_(surah)
PID controller widely used in mid-high tier espresso machines to keep water output temp constant https://1024kilobyte.com/blog/2020/3/3/new-project-coffeepid...
Consumers are using AI to read and ignore ads

Could you share some examples? (genuine question)
By the way, you seem to be shadow banned, though it is not clear why. This is your first post since your account creation almost 4 years ago, so it's not like you have any history of writing bad posts. I vouched for you to undead your comment.
Remember that for an engineers job to continue to exist there is a need to ensure that the product and systems are secure.
When ChatGPT writes its own LLM to offload all the stupid shit that humanity asks of it, we'll know that it's actually intelligent.
And then there's sometimes a need for a "sort name" value. When I have upstream data consisting of separate first name and last name fields, my function to generate a sort name is to concatenate last name and first name, and then keep only letters. That way, apostrophes, dashes, spaces, etc. don't influence sorting whatsoever.

It seems quite tricky to deduce a sort string when you're only storing full name and short name... should the user be asked to provide this?
Same, ... they did soooo much the last few years with LLAMA or SAM or Lecun's self-supervised methods
Everyone is saying focus on the mic, but nobody is saying what mic is recommended to use with a smartphone.

I'm giving a talk in a bar next week, and for some reason the organizers are doing audio only recordings, so I'm thinking of setting up a phone to record, but I'll want a 2nd mic as I don't want to have to sync the audio recording from the organizers to my video.

Though I'm not sure if there is a good bluetooth lapel mic. I don't seem to be finding much. I'm wondering if I'll just end up using one of my earbuds, though the audio will probably end up being crap.

Any recommendations?
In the MRZ, < is not a field separator; it's a filler character. So if you're Lisa Marie Presley (and "Lisa Marie" is your first name) then you probably have "PRESLEY, LISA MARIE" in the VIZ (human-readable part) and "PRESLEY<<LISA<MARIE" in the MRZ.
I don't like brutalism in buildings, but this so-called "brutalist" web site seems pretty user-friendly to me.
I wish they had just disabled TCP port forwarding. Based on the description of bad actors it sounds like that would have been enough, and at least torrent clients would have continued to work.
Hey HN,

I’m really excited to show off a project I’ve been tweaking and tuning for more than seven months.

One thing that drove me nuts about running LLMs locally was having to use terminals, install Python, and write code for the most basic things. I write software, but I don’t want to have to write it just to use a chatbot. So, I made Wingman with a friendly interface that lets you get started with zero coding or terminals required. It runs on MacOS and Windows, and even evaluates AI models up front to determine if they will run on your machine.

There’s other stuff it does, too, like let you save prompts, set system prompts per conversation, and change AI models mid-conversation. I added a way to sort models by popular or trending. It’s been pretty helpful to me for staying on top of all of the new models dropping.

But it still has a little way to go to be ready for really special things like planning and reasoning. So, I need to get some more feedback from people on different configurations. I’d love it if you checked it out, saw if it was useful, and maybe broke it so I could find fixes.

Thank!
Constitutions are supposed to prevent laws like this. Because it is all too easy to make people forget the principles their democratic system is based on and without which it will degenerate into a tyranny of the majority.
> I don’t know why that connection exists

It doesn’t. The meaningful connection is between other programmers and you. Same reason some people like sports metaphors. The medium is the message.
> People sharing the same "family name" are presumed to be family.

If only they had ALTER TABLE people CREATE UNIQUE KEY uq ON people.family_name; back when these things were registered. Most Jansens ("son of Jan") in my country are related only to the same degree that you and I likely are
You left out the cryptocurrency boomlet before LLMs.
I think LLMs come off as educated, but not really smart enough for their vocabulary.
> What would be the cost of a 4- or 5-foot fence with some automatic gates in it (per station)?

Per Alon Levy, from comparisons with installation costs elsewhere, about $10 million per station: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2022/01/20/platform-edge-...
Depending on carrier, the parent can turn off data on the child's line and only allow it to be used for voice/text.
I am of mixed nationality and as such have two surnames, typically separated by a dash "-".

The last time I went to renew one of my passports, I was informed that my country eschews using foreign surnames on passports. After insisting, I ended up with brackets "()" on my passport.

Besides being a complete displeasure when travelling, I wonder if there is a reasoning for this policy. If for example some database has values saved in the local language, my foreign name cannot be represented correctly because we do not use Latin script. Thus my foreign name gets omitted, and effectively only is for show.

Does anyone have an idea how certain countries (China, Korea, Japan) deal with this?
I worked on a project team implementing TR-Notruf 2.0¹ for a regional ISP. TR-Notruf is the technical specification for routing calls and signalling caller location information for emergency calls in Germany.

In that project I wrote the software that receives the call, matches the caller number to the customer record, encodes the customer location information in the metadata of the call, and (based on the location) routes the call to the local emergency services call center.

While the task was quite simple most of the complexity of the project was to make sure that this service was highly available since downtime could have a detrimental effect on the health of customers.

¹ https://www.bundesnetzagentur.de/DE/Fachthemen/Telekommunika...
I think you’re mistaken.

I’d have happily accepted the role if it initially listed for $10 and I applied for it.

But the job was listed for $60 and the hiring guy tried to low ball me to that amount. Which I felt very insulting and discriminatory.

I refused to accept that role out of self respect.
Reading such stories always reminds me of taking the TOEFL test. At least at the time, their website was full of all sorts of warnings and threats about what would happen if you registered with a name that did not match the legal name on your ID. Yet their website did not let me enter the letter "ä" in the name field.

What makes this all the more puzzling is that TOEFL is presumably aimed at people who are not native English speakers, so you would expect all sorts of non-ASCII characters to be fairly common.
I built the image processing/volume estimation/3D display core of an iOS app used for planning treatments for aneurysms. I've not been associated with it in more than a decade but I still count it as probably my greatest contribution to society. Others have taken it over and taken it further.
How many countries have been at war with their neighbour for 75 years post-WW2? How many wars have a body count that's tilted 20:1 in favour of the stronger side?

"It's just war" might win you glibness points online. Just be careful not to use it when referencing say, attacks on Warsaw ghettoes in the 1940s. After all, anybody there could have been part of the resistance, could they not?

"Deaths per bomb dropped" was probably somewhere in the Nuremberg defense lawyer's arsenal, but left out because the Allies could just point to the mass starvation that was directly related to bombing. Plus ca change....
I worked on the data warehouse for federal storage of Medicaid and CHIP data (US government-sponsored healthcare programs that cover ~25% of the population, especially people with low-income, for non-US folk).

It's not the flashiest or most glamorous project I've worked on, nor was it the most technically challenging, but I think far and away it's the most useful code I wrote by pretty much any measure of useful.

Alas, the company I was at that was doing that work moved away from it before we could finish everything we had planned to build because it wasn't profitable in the way that could justify keeping it alive once it had accomplished its goal of being a cool line item we could say we did in investor pitches.
original post: https://levelup.gitconnected.com/the-era-of-high-paying-tech...
Not sure in Finland but in Sweden yes you can see everyones salary (or more correctly you can see their income from salary. So if you got salary from two different jobs you just see the aggregate). Doesnt matter how much or little. And yes, it is def being used by criminals (on the other hand I'm sure it isnt hard to figure out in the US who is rich or not based on their lifestyle)
> Let the user specify how they would like to be addressed informally

Also for formally addressing someone, you need a last name split off of the name in many cultures. Can't write "Very honored mister Schmidt, I regret to inform you that..." if you don't have both the information that this Klaus Schmidt identifies as male and that Klaus must be removed for cultural reasons

Nickname sounds like the real solution. Prefix it with "Dear" and let the user fill in the rest, including any mister/misteress/miss/misses they might want -- or not!
Contaminated Fuel Is a Hard-to-Fix Problem in Ocean Shipping
https://archive.ph/UeGQH
> And yet I see people who should know better say things like, “I asked a conversational AI some questions that I knew the answers to, and its answers were well-written, but they had the kinds of subtle errors that could lead someone badly astray. But then I asked it some questions that I didn’t know the answers to, and it gave me really good, clear information! What a great learning tool!”

I'd love to see an actual example of this
> I thought we agreed that all of these “AI” systems are fundamentally just making shit up, and that if they happen to construct coherent sentences more often than your phone’s predictive-text keyboard then the difference is one of degree rather than kind. It’s amazing that the technology works as well as it does, but it’s been clear for a while now that these tools are unreliable, and that that unreliability is inherent.

So are human brains! No shit!

But you know what? I can throw recipes at ChatGPT and it can make some amazing variations! It is actually pretty good at making cocktails if you start off with some initial ideas. Sure it sucks at math, but it is still super useful!

Oh and bug fixing. LLMs can go over dozens of files of code and find weird async bugs.

Mocking out classes! I hate writing Jest mocks, and 100% of the time I get the syntax for proxying objects slightly wrong and spend (literal) hours debugging things. GPT is great at that.

Summarizing meeting transcripts, wonderful!

Or just throw an history entire book into Claude's absurdly large context window and start asking questions.
Wrote an Excel macro to produce “Marimekko” charts in a few hours (25 years ago).

A big name consultancy was trying to sell a software suite for $5K per seat when this was the only feature most people wanted.
Awesome job! Why not als have a website where people could pay for these lectures, and questions.
“America Online” worked well enough to be the dominant residential ISP for a decade. Doesn’t mean it’s a good name for an enterprise product.
> I'm not sure what I would do without lemonade.

Me too. So. many. lemons :-)
> TSA doesn't like when the name on my ticket doesn't match the name on my ID (it's illegal)

Not sure how illegal it really is in practice, as my driving license and passport have different spellings of my name and my green card has a different name (I always fly with the passport name but use my DL (not "RealID"!) to get through TSA). This mismatch has been true for 35 years and I have never had trouble traveling to/from or within the USA. There is also both a typo and, separately, a different transliteration of my name on my OCI card but I have never had a problem with that either.

The computers are sometimes picky but humans seem to be able to deal. Even countries that are supposedly picky.

I did once have trouble boarding a flight to the USA because of the d/m/y vs m/d/y thing with my green card -- they thought the card would expire within six months and I wouldn't be allowed in. But the various variations of name haven't been a problem.
If you knew a human, who you could text day or night, on any topic, and they’d respond within seconds with a lengthy answer, which was often correct, would you delete their contact number because they sometimes made subtle errors? I would not.
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An insurance company should be required to go through a legal process before they are able to drop people.

Sure, an undeclared pool is a problem. However, the insurance company should have to put the pictures into evidence and allow a legal rebuttal. Bureaucracies get things incorrect like "wrong address" all the time. People need the right to challenge these behemoths.

We've been through this once already in the US--it was called "rescission" in healthcare until the ACA made it moot by requiring coverage of preexisting conditions. It's a bad thing and invariably needs to be made illegal.
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I wonder if there’s a small-claims court claim here. It’s sort of annoying to have to jump through this hoop, but this is the sort of situation where you have to make it the right person’s problem to get what you want.
> small reckoning when people realize magic (ai) and all its unpredictability is very difficult to manage.

Deploy it in the right places first. Most people don't realize it's the arts where this works the best. They're too focused on LLMs and reasoning, but the first verticals that work will all be image, video, audio, and games.

If you're imperfect, the human creator driving the creation can easily repair it. Nobody dies, no business is lost. Millions of hours are saved. Large capital intensive businesses get disrupted and democratized.

Self-driving cars will be last.
It's also better to decouple one's email and hosting from the domain registrar, in terms of risk clustering.
California can subsidize the building of houses even though it isn't a country, let alone one with control over monetary supply.

All it has to do is borrow or collect the relevant amount in taxes and spend it on housing.

FWIW, California actually does that. (Yes, California subsidizes housing at the same time that it does other things to discourage housing.)
This is enough for non-diabetics who are curious about their diet and looking for data on blood sugar through the day to adjust their diet.
Could try using a unicode space to make the system not recognise it as middle names, if you want to mess with it that is :)
Reminds me of my first job out of college as a data analyst. At least 60% of the work was extremely repetitive spreadsheet work and emails. Wrote some macros and automation scripts to do almost all of it in ~3 minutes instead of 4 hours and spent the saved time doing more interesting things that led to my next job.

In my case, however, I sufficiently automated the job that they didn't replace me when I left. I got a call ~4 years later because one of the macros broke when they finally updated Excel. Fixed it for a small fee, and to my knowledge they're still using it today.
Is "Gell-Mann amnesia" anything other than a guilt-by-association fallacy?

As Crichton defined it, the person experiencing the effect doesn't even stay in the same section of the newspaper. So outside of small local newspapers, the journalist in the new section is almost always a different person, presumably reporting to a different editor.
It's still dangerous to share records that way. The structure of the law makes it be against porn consumption and anonymous porn consumption.
Yup, that's even better. I think it didn't work for me because I was using Redshift, which didn't support FILTER at that time.
> but at least not ones with computers systems requiring names be made of letters

That hyphen though

Positive reading of the situation: if they get famous enough, as one is likely to with such a father and inheritance, maybe the next generation of programmers is more aware of what their systems should be capable of handling

Alternatively: poor kid, that name is going to be an annoyance without end